Lesson Plans

GIS

Grades 9-12  

CLICK@MoMA: Making Codes, Breaking Codes

Grades 9-12  

Other Primary Structures

Grades 9-12  

Tinkercad Skills

Grades 5-12   

More Ideas

• DesignMakeTeach's PERSONALIZE A GIMBAL
  Tinkercad Gyro Maker by Mathgrrl (Laura Taalman)
  learn to move, align, and group objects and use that knowledge to put together a customized gyro from pre-made pieces.
  
  Choose one small inside hole and use the sliders in the Shape Script to change the number of sides/petals or the amount of twist in the shape. Then Align the small hole with the small blue gyro center and Group them together. For the outside, choose a large shape and customize it to your liking, then Align and Group the large shape with the large hole. Finally, select the customized outer ring together with the orange, yellow, green, and customized blue gyro rings, and Align and Group together to make the final gyro.
• Coin Trap
  Pause the printer, drop the coin and resume printing
  Laura Taalman's Coin Trap Tutorial
  
• Customize the Hinged Buterfly
  Ungroup and modify or just start with the hinge
• Create your own nets with these hinges or download and print Mathgrrl's (Laura Taalman ) Triangular polyhedra nets
  The nets are made to have .2mm (one layer) base thickness plus another .2mm (another layer) for the faces themselves, which are inset just a bit from the base layer so that fold lines develop naturally. Thicker nets did not fold very well and tended to snap along the edges.
  
  Even better, make your own nets.
  Look at Origami Heavenfor inspiration.
• Explore Mathgrrl's (Laura Taalman ) Tiles for Stellated Octahedron
  Optimized to work with the low/.3mm settings
• From a drawing to a model (inspired by DesignMakeTeach's SHARPIE TO 3D PRINT IN 30 MINUTES
  1. Draw a small picture on an index card with a Sharpie marker.
  2. Take a photo of the drawing
  3. Upload to your computer
  4. Open in Inkscape
  5. Select Path>Trace Bitmap. Click Update and close the pp-up window
  6. Save file as .svg
  7. Open a new model in Tinkercad
  8. Click Import, select file, scale the file
  9. Download and print

Jonathan Rothman's Modeling Syllabus

Grades 9-12   

Jewish Museum Workshop

Grades 3-12

Light

Grades 6-12

Sound

Grades 6-12

Animation

Grades 6-12  

Urban Futures

Grades 6-12

Tactile Picture Books

Grades 9-12

Lithograms

Grades 3-12  

Lithopanes

Grades 6-12  

General 3D

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 & 3D Printers

Grades 8-12

How you can use 3D Printing with Math

Grades 5 through 12

HS Geometry

Use OpenSCAD and a 3D printer to introduce the z-axis; learn a little code; and review the concepts of intersection, union, and rigid transformations.

Lessons ideas: Saint Ann's School Math Department

Calculus:

1. Print various functions to compare computed centers of mass with physical model.
   
   

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2. Print solids of revolution and compare volumes computed with water displacement with volumes computed with integral calculus. (a similar activity could be carried out with more elementary volume problems with a middle school class or a Geometry class.)
   
   

Non Euclidean Geometry:

1. Print models of pseudospheres to aid in class discussion.
   
   

Topology:

1. Print various examples of topological objects.
   
   

5th grade:

1. Print weighted dice for dice probability. (Designs of custom dice is another area of potential interest.)
   
   

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2. Building growth patterns of cubes, with which students investigate how volume, surface area, etc. grow.
   
   

Algebra II or Analysis:

1. Investigating curves of intersections of various surfaces (two cylindrical pipes, for example.)
   
   

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2. Building pieces of mathematical art for classes and recent mathematical art festival.
   
   

Linear Algebra

Grades 9-12

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

Grade 6-12 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.

OmNomNom is MAC only.

How you can use a 3D Printer in Education

STEM

A 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.



A 3d 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.



A 3D printer can facilitate hands on lessons using the manipulatives. One possible unit is reviewing fractions.

Computer Science

A 3D printer 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

A 3D printer 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 a 3D printer 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. A 3D printer 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.

Cryptography

Grades 9-12

Language Arts

Grades 9-10

Social Sciences

Modeling Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Grade 5

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

Grade 5

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

STEM centered

Design Thinking and Physics

Grades 7-12

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

Grades 6-12 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. A 3D printer can be used to create a working prototype or final product.

Creating a DNA comb for a Gel Electrophoresis Separation by Size Experiment Using a 3D printer

Using 3D Printing and Modeling to make an mp3 Player

Grades 7-12 Students create a unique mp3 Players.

Wind and Conservation of Energy

Grades 6-12

Digital Fabrication

Grades 11 and 12

Product Design

Grades 5-12 Students explore the iterative design process around the experience of brushing their teeth.

6th Grade Design Class

Source: Russ Holstein, I.S. 318
Grade 6
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
Grade 7 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
Grades 6-8

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

Grades 7-12

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

Board Game

Grades 6-8  

Source: Lindrick Outerbridge