Learn skills and tools to help you integrate engineering and design in your STEM classes with TeachEngineering’s virtual professional development summer workshops for PreK-12 teachers. ASEE endorsed!

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Spatial visualization – the ability to imagine objects from different angles – is a key STEM problem-solving skill that varies widely by gender, race, and cultural background. Yet it’s rarely taught. The University of Colorado-Boulder’s College of Engineering developed an inexpensive training program that closed STEM performance gaps so well it’s required of all incoming engineering students. The curriculum is now available for free online so any school can advance STEM equity.

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Tags: 3-D modeling, ASEE Prism magazine, Curriculum, Design, Engineering Plus, Internet Resources, Jacob Segil, Outreach, Research on Learning, Resources for Teachers, spatial visualization training workshops, STEM education, STEM equity, Technology for Learning, University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering, Web Resources