Book chapter
Integrating Engineering Into K-8 Classrooms A Method of Identifying and Developing Strong Spatial Skills
Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms, p.189
Routledge
2021
DOI: 10.4324/9781003234951-20
Abstract
This chapter discusses the talent in kindergarten to eighth grade students for one specific domain-engineering. The field of gifted education has devoted a great deal of research and discussion to issues surrounding the identification of academic talent in children. However, more recent research demonstrates the efficacy of viewing talent as situated within specific domains of practice. The United States hopes to develop America's future scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians in order to be competitive in a growing global economy. Traditional definitions characterize spatial skills as one type of ability. For example, an early definition defines them as the ability to “search the visual field, apprehending the forms, shapes, and positions of objects as visually perceived, forming mental representations of those forms, shapes, and positions, and manipulating such representations ‘mentally'”. Finally, within engineering design activities, educators might consider either pushing gifted students' creativity by removing some of the task constraints or challenging their reasoning skills by adding additional constraints.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Integrating Engineering Into K-8 Classrooms A Method of Identifying and Developing Strong Spatial Skills
- Creators
- Kinnari AtitKay E RameyDavid H UttalPaula M. Olszewski-Kubilius
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms, p.189
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003234951-20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984528097202771
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