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Engaging Sketching Products to Improve Critical STEM Skills

Sketching is an important, but under-taught, skill for learning in a wide range of areas. The act of sketching has been shown to improve the cognitive ability to think spatially and improve creativity. Our products include an intelligent learning environment where students can freehand sketch on almost any device and receive personalized grading feedback and hints to improve their conceptual understanding and promote student persistence.

Spatial Vis™ Features

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis showing orthographic projection sketch.

Automatic Grading

Students get immediate feedback on each sketch and unlimited retries.

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis showing isometric sketching grading feedback.

Personalized Feedback

If students get stuck on an assignment they can get a hint or peek at the solution.

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis showing "Great Job" grading feedback.

Gamification

Our star system rewards students for their persistence, a key in developing spatial skills.

 
eGrove Education's Spatial Vis on Android and iOS mobile devices.

Spatial Vis™

Engineering students need strong spatial visualization skills to envision 2D and 3D shapes for their Design, CAD, and theory classes. Sketching orthographic and isometric shapes has been shown to increase spatial visualization ability, GPAs in STEM, and graduation rates in engineering. Spatial Vis™ can raise students’ sketching and cognitive abilities. It can be taught in class or assigned as homework. For more information on the benefits of Spatial Vis™, see results.

Grade Level: Ideal for CTE, Intro to Engineering, Design, and CAD Courses in Middle School, High School, and College

Lessons: Orthographic Projections, Isometrics, 2D and 3D Rotations, Flat Patterns, Assembly, and more!

Features: Automatic Grading and Feedback, Personalized Hints, Teacher Data for Tracking Student Progress

Availability: Available for Apple, Android, Chromebooks, and computers.

If you are interested in incorporating Spatial Vis™ into your course, check out our purchase options.

 
eGrove Education's Spatial Kids showing 2D rotations sketch.

Spatial Kids™ - Beta

Spatial Kids™ teaches spatial visualization skills for 3rd – 6th graders in a fun and engaging manner. These skills can help with math and science classes. Students learn to sketch in 2D and 3D and perform mental manipulation of shapes.

Grade Level: Ideal for 3rd - 6th Grade

Lessons: 2D Rotations, Drawing in 3D, Orthographic Views, Tetrominoes, Flat Patterns, and more!

Features: Automatic Grading and Feedback, Students Work at their Own Pace, Star Incentive System, and Animated Hints

Availability: Available on iPad

 

Teachers and Students love it!

Testimonials

“Projected views and Orthogonal projection tend to be points of weakness of new engineering students. We teach Engineering Drawings and Orthogonal projections early in the curriculum, but it really takes practice to grasp this topic. With classes of hundreds of students, it is difficult to provide quick and appropriate feedback to students’ shortfalls. Spatial Vis provides a tool that allows students to complete multiple exercises and receive quick feedback and guidance as they work through the assignments”

Dr. Jeff Raquet
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"My students almost all resoundingly love Spatial Vis. Many go beyond what I have assigned and even work ahead they enjoy it so much. It has also been really neat for students who never realized they had pretty advanced and sophisticated abilities to make those realizations as they work through the exercise and as they engage with 3D design and fabrication with Tinkercad and our 3D printers and laser cutter”

Ethan Greenberg
Lovett Instructor

"Excellent tool for remote learning or in-person learning. Helps students develop important skills for CAD and Technical Sketching"

Jake Fullington
Shelton High School Instructor

The primary reason for incorporating Spatial vis in the MER-101 course is to make hand-drawing more appealing to students. Students practiced plenty of 2D orthographic projections and 3D isometric drawings using the Spatial Vis app, as the app allowed unlimited attempts to get the answers right, and when the students could not answer correctly, the app provided hints for reduced points. As they were graded instantly by the app, it was a lot of fun for students to complete the hand-drawing exercises.

Spatial vis app helped in most certainly improving:

  • student participation in completing all the homework.

  • student performance in the hand-drawing midterms.

It even resulted in some students exploring and going beyond what is typically covered in the MER-101 course.

Prof. Pradeep Gudlur

Union College

"My students were all able to use the app independently as homework, and I saw remarkable progress in spatial visualization skills, especially among those starting with low skill levels"

Prof. Gordon Hoople
University of San Diego

"The best thing about the app is it’s available anytime, whether I’m waiting for someone to pick me up, waiting for my food or simply in the restroom. It’s ideal for its reach-ability"

Spatial Vis Student

"During this in and out virtual year, I am glad we chose to use this app. This app really teaches students how to hand sketch single view, orthographically, isometrically, and 3d visualizations without advanced verbal instruction”

Daniel Arnett
Hampton High School Instructor

"The activities are fun! They don't seem like homework!"

Spatial Kids Student

"Ever since implementing Spatial Vis into my program it has been very effective in getting the students focused on a task relative to sketching and that has been huge"

Stephen Marsh
Cabrillo High School Instructor

"Spatial Visualization is a good skill to develop! I think the app was fun to use and I did improve!" 

Spatial Vis Student