3D Printing

Curriculum Connections
in Elementary Schools

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 Agenda

Why 3D Printing in Schools?

Cost and Getting Started
Design Process is Everything!
Ideas for Making - Curriculum Connections
App Review (Tinkerplay, Makerbot Printshop,
123D Apps - Design, Sculpt, Catch, Make)
Play time!
 What is 3D Printing?

3D printing is a technology that allows users to turn any digital

file into a three dimensional physical product. 3D printing also
allows for massive customization and unlike with music and
movies, everything that is printed is protected by copyright.

One of the good things about this printing technology is that it

changes the dynamic of consumer culture.

In other words, it turns users from being passive consumers

to active creators!

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 Why 3D Printing in Schools?

STEM Connections & 21st Century Learning (Communication, Creativity,

Collaborative, Critical Thinkers)

Fosters creative thinkers and reflective learners. If you can imagine it you can
make it.

Process of Design (Empathy, Brainstorm, Design, Make, Test, Evaluate)

3D printing is not just for D&T Artistic sculptural forms can be designed and
made; Geographers can model 3D terrain; Mathematical shapes can be
modelled; Architectural and historical buildings/structures studied as 3D models;
Moulds for food products; Cells, atoms, DNA and other scientific concepts can be
modelled
 The Maker Movement
Be a Part of the Maker Movement!
Learning through experimentation, design and trial and error
Creativity encouraged through invention and play
Both high and low tech

Notice the similarity to teaching STEM?

Teach Knowing and Doing
Create products and present
Learning from failures and successes
Allow for Creativity
Make Collaboration central
Start with Questions
 How Much is a 3D Printer?
You dont need a 3D printer to start right now!

Cost is around $1500 to start

Options

Create and share (no printing)

Send to a company for printing

Buy a printer
 Materials Cost
Filament cost is $30 - $50 per roll
Will make about 300+ chess-sized pieces
Filament recycling products available
The Design Process
 Focus on the Process - Design

Source: www.cityprojectx.com
Problem-Based Learning / Engineering Design Process

Analyze the Problem

What do I know What do I need to How and where will I

know find it...
Problem-Based Learning / Engineering Design Process

Analyze the Problem

What do I know What do I need to How and where will I

know find it...
 Good Questions and Inquiry

Good questions are those that force students to challenge their taken for
granted assumptions and see their own underlying biases. Oftentimes the
answer to a good question is irrelevantthe question is an insight in itself.
The only answer to the best question is another good question.

- (M. Wesch, A portal to media literacy, University of Manitoba, podcast,

2008)

http://rightquestion.org/make-just-one-change/

Grades K to 3
What makes a good friend?
What makes a bad storm?
How can we eat well?
Why do you suppose the rain
falls down?
If you could change the town
we live in, how would you
make it better?
Adapted from: www.questioning.org/mar05/essential.pdf
Inquiry Questions
Grades 4 to 6
What are the traits of a good
leader?
What makes a fair
punishment?
What makes one writer more
powerful than another?
How could you invent a better
city?
Grades 7 to 9
How do you know if a law is
just?
How is a hero different from a
celebrity?
Which leader of the previous
century relied most on
propaganda and appeals to
fear?
 Web- Based Design Software
SketchUp (Google)
TinkerCAD
3DTin
123 Design

Downloaded Software:
3D Crafter (Windows)
Blender
Wings3D
 iPad Software
Tinkerplay

123D Design

123 Sculpt

123 Catch

123 Creature
 3D Scanning

Use the xBox Kinect hardware

(Scanner 1414) and a new
computer with an nVidia graphics
card

Skanect - download the

free software to scan
Thingiverse.com
 Ideas for Integrating 3D Printing

Create and design characters for Stop Motion

animation
City Project X
Board Games
Product Design
Geometric Shapes to build castles
Autodesk http://digitalsteam.autodesk.
com/subjects
Any STEM related project
Grade 3 Math Lesson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrk3nzXvoyI
 Tips for Getting Started
Abandon the sage on the stage Socratic method of
teaching and embrace the guide on the side approach
as a co-learner
Start with a club or group
Dont mark or grade the results, assess the process
Allow for student directed learning

Credit: Dian Schaffhauser 12/11/13

The Journal
3D Printing in the Classroom
 Ideas for Making
Lego We Do
Little Bits
Makey Makey
Arduino
3D Design Club (myminifactory.com)
 Next Steps

1. Create a Makerspace in your school

2. Maker Fair/ICT Marketplace in your FOS
3. Twitter
4. Connect to Deeper Learning with Inquiry
Create a MakerSpace

Photo credit: http://renovatedlearning.

com/tag/programs/
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