{"id":5239,"date":"2020-02-25T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2020-02-25T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:45:27","slug":"a-quick-spatial-awareness-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/25\/a-quick-spatial-awareness-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick Spatial Awareness activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spatial Awareness parts of the Kent Test can be quite challenging for some children, so here&#8217;s a a little activity I&#8217;ve created for my students. You will need some blank plastic dice &#8211; you can get these for about \u00a32.50 on ebay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put a downloadable sheet on our Links and Resources page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spatial awareness dice activity (requires blank dice)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Draw a different pattern on each face of the dice using wipeable felt pens \u2013 to begin with use a different colour for each face but as you become more confident reduce the colours.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Place the dice at an angle so you can see 3 sides. Draw what you see.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rotate the dice and draw the new view.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> How many different views can you get?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make a net of your cube.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut it out and check that it is the same as your dice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/25\/a-quick-spatial-awarenemss-activity\/img_20200225_182019\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5232 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200225_182019-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200225_182019-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200225_182019.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spatial Awareness parts of the Kent Test can be quite challenging for some children, so here&#8217;s a a little activity I&#8217;ve created for my students. You will need some blank plastic dice &#8211; you can get these for about \u00a32.50 on ebay. I&#8217;ve put a downloadable sheet on our Links and Resources page. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}