Development of thinking skills

Leading team

Prof. Nir Orion

Project members
Maya Shalom, MSc Student

Orit Ben-Zvi-Assraf
Jeff Dodick
Osher Fishzang
Yossi Gudovich
Yael Kali
Ronit Laub

Summary
This research focuses on the unique contribution of Earth Sciences to the development of various cognitive skills, such as:

The development of basic scientific skills (observation-hypothesis-conclusion).
Spatial visualization.
Cyclic thinking.
Perception of deep time.
Systems thinking.

Links for further reading

project website (in …