If you want to improve your spatial thinking skills you are very welcome on this website. Primary and secondary school students as well as university students can train their spatial thinking skills in a variety of scientifically based ways. This website offers an incredible number of unique task groups for free with a total of more than 1.600 interactive tasks. With the help of the task groups of this website also the spatial thinking skills of students can be diagnosed by educators on a class-by-class or individual basis.
All the task groups are designed in such a way that they can directly be integrated into lessons and many components of spatial thinking can be trained in a playful way. Each task group consists of 20 to 60 tasks, which take between 15 up to 45 minutes to complete.
New Features at RIF
1) The new RIF4students website offers 1,700+ interactive, free exercises for spatial thinking training. On RIF4students, students can practice on their own or as a class. The general rule is: “Master a task group with at least 80% correct answers to unlock the next task group.” Students can collect various badges. Teachers can create as many classes as they like and add students to them. All students are automatically assigned codes. Teachers can access a list of student names and their corresponding codes at any time and give each student a card with their individual code (including a QR code).
2) RIF4students Test Environment: In the so-called test environment, teachers can make 1 to 10 task groups available to the students in a class. Teachers set the end date and end time as the duration. Teachers can see at any time which students have already completed which task groups and how well they performed; they can stop a test early at any time or extend the test period. After a test is administered, the results of each individual test remain available to teachers digitally and as a PDF document. During a test, students cannot engage in normal training activities.
For use in the classroom, depending on pedagogical preference, either RIF 3.0 or RIF4students can be used.
3) There are 120 unique exercises available in the newly implemented Dynamics section. All exercises involve dynamic processes that can be viewed and solved using animations and videos. For the first time, this new section allows users to practice dynamic spatial skills. All exercises were specifically designed and created for RIF 3.0.
