Seal Web: Your Guide to Interactive Mapping in the Examination of our Mammal Friends Throughout Our Region
 

Gersmehl's Aspects of Spatial Thinking

Part Two - Analysis of a Place

 

TOPICS

Welcome

Geographic Principles  

Interactivity

Mapping

Community

Teaching Units

Standards

Get Involved

Eight Aspects of Spatial Thinking

1. Comparison - How are places similar or different? How can we compare them fairly?

2. Aura (Influence) - What effect(s) does a feature have on nearby areas?

3. Region - What nearby places are similar to each other and can be grouped together?

4. Hierarchy - Where does this place fit in a hierarchy of nested areas?

5. Transition - Is the change between places abrupt, gradual, or irregular?

6. Analog - What distant places have similar situations and therefore may have similar conditions?

7. Pattern - Are there clusters, strings, rings, waves, or other non-random arrangements of features?

8. Assocation (Correlation) - Do features tend to occur together (have simlar spatial patterns)?

TOPIC SECTIONS

Geographic Principles.

1. Location.

2. Eight Aspects

3. Time Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright 2010, David Stolarz, Graduate Center of The City University of New York Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 08/12/2010, Supported by the National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows Program