How To Help Your Middle School Age Child Learn Visual Spatial Skills

How can I help my middle school-age child learn visual-spatial skills?

I think that one of the very best things parents can do with middle school children with regard to visual-spatial difficulties, is to read maps with them, to work on map skills and direction skills; understanding scale, distance, time elapsed and space. This can be done particularly on road trips or any travel that the family takes: where they're going, what direction they're going, how high they'll be flying. I think all of this needs to be shared with children, rather than have them as passive bystanders.