Since November, there is big news on 3 fronts: research team expands, na2ure.org, and a Kickstarter: • Research team expands In December, na2ure welcomed Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University)and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff (U Delaware) who have been researching together for decades, to our research team. Since then, we have been busy reaching out for foundation grants, as…
lots of news • NASA Biocene 2020 •• Elsevier textbook chapter ••• Uncommon Goods October promotion •••• upcoming Kickstarter • Presenting and winning at NASA Biocene 2020: NASA V.I.N.E. selected na2ure to create a video on what we do and how it fits in with NASA for their invite-only workshop Oct 8-11, 2020. • we WON…
Path to Learning podcast episode: Alex and Vijal We hope you all got to play outside this summer. We are thinking how to help kids do that this fall, as play is inherently spatial. • You might enjoy this podcast discussion of spatial learning: spatial reasoning is as important as verbal and math skills, as we…
Pattern ABC in Tanzania – video We hope this finds you well and sheltering safely. Please enjoy the simple joy of children’s learning with our 10 minute video on the Pattern ABC Tanzania Pilot. Spatial skills are the engine for STEM and STEAM learning, and are nowhere in the US school curriculum. We intend to…
It turns out what you do in kindergarten and preschool really does matter. Early childhood is about laying down the structure of the brain, as well as emotional response, and expectations for living. A Froebel® Gift assortment including multiple “gifts”, block sizes and shapes. (Froebel USA®) Revisiting the origins of Kindergarten Kindergarten (which loosely means…
The Pattern Alphabet goes back to NASA Big fun with NASA V.I.N.E., their nature inspired learning cluster at NASAGlenn in Cleveland, for the Bio Inspired Design (BID) workshop in September 2019. And a big development: the Pattern ABC has been encoded into the visual search engine PeTaL. Here’s how the Pattern ABC got to NASA. PhD’s Last…
The Pattern Alphabet is the center of a pilot test in Tanzania, and we have expanded into spatial research to complement this testing. A powerful application of the Pattern ABC is as a learning tool for preschoolers to master spatial skills and relational thinking. Visual spatial patterns help language acquisition, early math and non-verbal logic,…