Spatial Concept Perspectives

We have gathered ~300 excerpts from published works about fundamental spatial concept terms. These have been cross-referenced with the concept lexicon appearing on the left. Those terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

spatial concept terms

disciplinary perspectives on "route perspective"

route perspective

In a route perspective, [a] narrative takes a changing point of view within an environment, addressing the reader or listener as you, describing you navigating through an environment, locating landmarks relative to your changing position in terms of your left, right, front, and back (p 10).

Psychology

Tversky (2005)

Functional Significance of Visuospatial Representations