What does it mean to be right-brained? How about creative? Sees in pictures? Expert in visual-spatial relations?
Here are other ways students who are right-brained learn:
- They use feeling
- They are ‘Big picture’ oriented
- They understand symbols and images
- They love Philosophy and religion
- They easily grasp object function
- They dream up possibilities
- They will take risks
At Sophia Academy, we do our best to teach the way our students learn. Want to know and understand the relative scale of the earth-moon size and distance? We let others read about it in a book. We will “guess” which ball best represents the earth and the moon. 
Once we guess and discuss, we need to see if we are right. We use the math we learn in the morning to help us figure out the diameter of each ball from the circumference that we measured. Which two balls have the ratio closest to that of earth and moon? It turns out it was the basketball and the baseball.
Then we have to figure out how far apart they are. If the earth is a basketball and the moon is the baseball, what distance best represents their true distance? After class discussion, we decided 3-4 feet. Were we right? Ask a Sophia Academy student for the answer.
