Lesson Plans

General Makerbotting

Grades 3-8

3D Design::Elementary

Grades 2-5

Geometry

Grades 8-12

OpenSCAD

Grades 7-12

3D Printing

Grades 7-12

Interdisciplinary 3D Printing

Grades 6-12

3D Design Syllabus

Grades 8

Math & Makerbots

Grades 8-12

How you can use the with Math

Grades 5 through 12

HS Geometry

Use OpenSCAD and the to introduce the z-axis; learn a little code; and review the concepts of intersection, union, and rigid transformations.

Linear Algebra

Fractal Investigations

Grades 9-12

3D Modeling and Printing a Small Residence to Enhance an Erosion Lesson

Grades 2-3

Using 3D Printing and Modeling to Enhance a Green Roof Lesson

Grade 2

Students will use model buildings to compare runoff between a control building without a green roof and the experimental roof that has soil and has been seeded with grass seed. Second grade students will practice measuring liquids with a graduated cylinder.

Using 3D Printing and Modeling to Create Text Labels

Grade 2

Students work with tinkercad.com to become familiar to adding text to a 3D model. This will also enhance their ability to modify the proportions of different elements.

Using 3D Printing and Modeling to Create Chinese Seals

Students translate their names into Chinese characters and discover what their personalized seals look like. They will then use OmNomNom to generate a 3D model.

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How you can use the in Education

STEM

The 3D Printer can be utilized to help physics students visualize physics units on models of the atom, quantized energy and quarks. Students will be able to create a large-scale model of the atom, right down to the quarks that make up each individual subatomic particle. The Thing-O-Matic will not only impact the education of the physics classes, but also science students who will be able to create 3D DNA during a Genetics unit. Students will be able to manipulate the double helix, create different patterns of protein folding, and correctly sequence base pairs.



The printer can help bring abstract science concepts to life. Students can create double-helix DNA structures that they normally could not see and visualize them on a larger scale. To help teach proportion, students could create scale models of all the planets in the solar system.

In 6th grade, students focus on engineering of simple machines. They could create prototypes of their own machines that would help solve a problem or innovate a current design.



The can facilitate hands on lessons using the manipulatives. One possible unit is reviewing fractions.

Computer Science

The allows teachers to engage students in technology lessons that incorporate creativity, problem-solving and “off the beaten track” tools.

Social Sciences

Social studies classes studying Ancient Egypt can create models of the great pyramids of Egypt in SketchUp. These 3D models can comprise the entire landscape of pyramids along the Nile River.



Students studying entrepreneurship can build business plans, prototypes and then sell student-designed products.

Art

The can bridge the gap between science and art in the classroom. It can be used to teach architecture and design. While concepts such as “form follows function” can be understood in theory, theoretical thinking is the beginning of understanding. Being able to transform the theoretical into the actual is the true litmus test of an idea. provides students with the ability to conceptualize, design, and then fabricate.

"High School students very often identify themselves as one thing or another. Commonly, the Art kids are not the Tech kids and vice versa. Working with the could provide exposure to both worlds to young, agile minds. This in turn may deter the students from prematurely typecasting, therefore opening up new ways of thinking about their futures. Whether teaching ceramics (very low tech admittedly) or technology, we have experienced the excitement the students generate when they realize that they can hold in their hands the actualization of an idea. The can turn the classroom into a world of tangible dreams."
Katherine Flori and Gail Meirovitch

Kinect and Education

Grades 9-12

Parametric Modeling/ Generative Art

Grades 9-12

These lessons demonstrate how to use Processing to generate unique 3D forms.

Language Arts

Grades 9-10

Social Sciences

Modeling Egyptian Hieroglyphics

In a Social Studies Unit on Egypt, students chose an Egyptian Hieroglyphic to model using TinkerCAD or 3DTin. Students also modeled and printed objects that they might find in ancient Egypt.

Greek Temple Collaboration with The School at Columbia

This project modeled the Artist / Patron relationship and the idea of outsourcing labor.

Grade 5

STEM centered

Design Thinking and Physics

Use technology and Design Thinking to determine the best way to move things across open water.
This lesson was created by J.A. Harp Jr.

eCybermission

Use 3D printing to support the eCYBERMISSION Program, a web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) competition free for grades six through nine. Students compete for state, regional and national awards while solving problems in their community. Students follow the Scientific Method, or Engineering Design Cycle to communicate their solutions online. The can be used to create a working prototype or final product.

Creating a DNA comb for a Gel Electrophoresis Separation by Size Experiment Using The Makerbot

Using 3D Printing and Modeling to make an mp3 Player

Students create a unique mp3 Players.

Wind and Conservation of Energy

Grades 6-12

Conservation of Energy

Grade 8

Digital Fabrication

Grades 11 and 12

Product Design

Students explore the iterative design process around the experience of brushing their teeth.

6th Grade Design Class

Source: Russ Holstein, I.S. 318
What is an engineer?

What is a technologist?

How much waste do we produce in the course of our lives? In a day? As a population in a particular area? How does our material consumption affect the environment? How can we design more sustainably? What is design? What information is required to record....

After spending time in 3DTin.com students created design journal pages in Google Docs.

Considerations:

1. Students had no real grasp of the source from which all materials are taken in order to manufacture assorted furniture and other elements of our homes so time was spent examining this aspect of design;
2. The idea of scale was lost on most students so the class developed a working model from which they could better understand the constraints of their own designs.
3. In creating objects in 3DTin, the class discovered that designing models for aesthetics and designing models for printability were two different things, often requiring students to revisit their models and redesign for printing.

7th Grade Mechatronics Class

Source: Russ Holstein, I.S. 318
What’s a Microcontroller, using the Parallax Basic Stamp 2.

The class covers chapters 1-3 and chapter 5, with the intention of covering chapter 4 with the servos to utilize robots.

The students voted to utilize SketchUp to design Maker parts for their projects.

Many students intend to pursue creating robots, both chassis and bodies (such as the turtle bots) that can be controlled with infrared sensors. The class examined creating gears since we gearboxes are necessary to make the robots faster or stronger (increasing the torque).

Some students took to the suggestion of creating pinball machines using both simple mechanical creations along with mechatronic constructions with the Basic Stamp. Students are currently in the process of creating a combination of flippers, ramps, traps, and bumpers. A discussion of materials necessary to make these games fully viable has been ongoing. By the end of the year students will have rough constructions to show.

6th-8th Grade Future City After School Club

Source: Russ Holstein, I.S. 318
Students worked with 3DTin in early morning and SketchUp in after school to create building models that can be used in the construction of their future city models for the upcoming year. The biggest issue is that of scale. Early morning students focused on stick/frame buildings for some of their creations and were able to get very creative in the manner in which they created printable models.

Printable Circuit

Grades 7-12

Source: This project is an Instructable by CarryThe What and demonstrates how to turn a schematic for a simple circuit into a real circuit with components, conductive thread, and a 3D printer. No solder, no etching chemicals, no sending away for anything.

SOLID Learning

Source: Kalani Kirk Hausman, http://STEMulate.org.

Board Game

Source: Lindrick Outerbridge