{"id":658436,"date":"2020-06-18T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658436"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:14:23","slug":"using-lego-to-test-childrens-ability-to-visualize-and-rotate-3-d-shapes-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658436","title":{"rendered":"Using LEGO to test children&#039;s ability to visualize and rotate 3-D shapes in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a test that uses children&#8217;s ability to assemble LEGO pieces to assess their spatial visualization ability. Spatial visualization is the ability to visualize 3-D shapes in one&#8217;s mind, which is tied to increased GPAs and graduation rates in STEM college students.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-lego-children-ability-visualize-rotate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Using LEGO to test children&#8217;s ability to visualize and rotate 3-D shapes in space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a test that uses children&#8217;s ability to assemble LEGO pieces to assess their spatial visualization ability. Spatial visualization is the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}