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3D Printing using a JellyBOX printer and TinkerCad

Description: 

Students use Tinkercad website to learn about 3D design, printing and the process involved to print objects.  

Learning Targets: 
Students will be able to complete a tutorial on the Tinkercad website
Students will able to brainstorm ideas for printing
Link: 
3D Printing using a JellyBOX printer and TinkerCad
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MeeFDItNX_tBmqRySDjbjhpFJTg-ljLDTFbN5R7PDY/edit
Author: 
wickmanl
Content Area: 
Technology
Computer Science
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Lesson
Grade: 
K-5
Next Generation and Michigan Science
Next Generation and Michigan Science: 
4-ESS3-2
Tags: 
3D
printing
tinkercad
jellybox

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

Materials/Resources:

Video, guiding questions, and safety rules on the website:  STEAM website

Student journals, graph paper and TinkerCAD student accounts.

Introduction/Warm-Up:

Introduce students to 3D printing with the guiding questions (find out what they know)

  • How does 3D printing work?

  • Who uses it?

  • Why was it invented?

  • What problems can it solve?

  • Do you think our designs will always turn out the way we imagined them?

  • What problems might we have as we go along?

  • How can we keep track of our new learning?

  • Who will be responsible for our safety?

and  this video: What is 3D printing?

Procedure/Activities:

  • If students bring up additional questions about 3D printing during the warm-up, “Park” their questions to come back to after our initial lesson.

  • Have students create an account on TinkerCAD

  • Use TinkerCAD’s “Basic Moves” as a basic tutorial to learn about the workplane, camera views and gallery objects.  

  • Tutorial

  • Give students 3-5 minutes to brainstorm individually with this sentence starter: The design process is…

  • Have students compare ideas in small groups

  • Make a list of ideas as a class

  • Invite students to revise their original sentence and sketch a simple object that may be useful to someone

  • Challenge students to use what they have learned about TinkerCAD to create the object they have sketched

Lesson Conclusion/Summary:

Do a “gallery walk” so students can view the objects that were created. Give each student two sticky notes (two different colors). One color sticky note should describe the object they designed (including its use) and stick on their own computer, the other sticky note should ask a question about an object designed by another student.

Assessment: Formative /Summative

The journal/sketch provides a formative assessment that can be used to plan subsequent lessons.

Follow-Up Lesson(s):

Students designed a class gift for their teacher, continued to brainstorm “useful” objects, designed a brain teaser, and modified (improved) 3D prints made by others.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

Notes/Reflection:

I thought this was a good introduction to 3D printing. I look forward to subsequent years when students have more background with 3D design and understanding spatial relationships so we might build on their prior knowledge.