AbstractToward Interdiciplinary Curriculm to Support Spatial Thinking Track: Designing GIS Curriculum for K–12 Education Author(s): Marsha Alibrandi With the recent publication the long awaited National Research Council's report on Learning to Think Spatially (2006), action and implementation at the curricular level is implied. Among the conclusions of the report, "the committee derives two educational principles: first instruction should be infused across and throughout the curriculum; second, instruction should create skills that promote a lifelong interest in spatial thinking. These two principles lead in turn to ideals for the design of a K–12 curriculum that would promote and support spatial thinking (109)." Given this charge, I present a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to integration of spatial thinking both horizontally and vertically across the K–12 curriculum. Marsha Alibrandi North Carolina State University Curriculum & Instruction PO Box 396 Cummaquid, MA 02637 US Phone: 919-349-4080 E-mail: marsh@cape.com |