3D Modeling lesson plans

[Tatian Greenleaf]

I'm thinking about teaching a 3D modeling elective for 7th & 8th graders using Tinkercad.  Does anyone teach something similar and would you be willing to share what types of lessons you teach (even just an outline would be much appreciated!).  I'll re-invent the wheel if I have to but I just spent a lot of time designing and fabricating a Spin Art machine unit for my 3rd graders and I'm a little burnt out.  ;)

In case you're interested, here's a one minute time-lapse video of me putting together the kit I created:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4az-mN1cng

Students are refreshing their knowledge of electrical circuits from our paper circuits unit earlier in the year and are experiencing the "beautiful" aspect of this art process as part of my "5 B's" curriculum - Build, Bot, Burst, Beautiful, Become.

Tatian

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[Joshua Gold]

I have a couple of math projects that lead to 3d design and printing.  One is modular space stations relating to algebraic expressions and the other is tangram puzzles relating to 6th grade geometry.

We are planning on doing an 8th grade printing project to create enclosures for our arduino + touchscreens students are programming Tic Tac Toe on as well.

Some neat ideas would be to look on thingverse, gearboxes would be super cool!

[Gregory Herker]

http://learn.printrbot.com/2015/02/12/lesson-plans-and-resources-document-is-complete/

this might be a good resource for you

Greg

[Lucie deLaBruere]

Joshua  I would love to hear more about the algebraic expression space station project and the tangram puzzles

Do you have something that you would share?  Prompt? ideas of how you connect it to math curriculum

Lucie

[Joshua Gold]

Hello!

I'll attach the two projects.  These are unedited and just created this year!  I would Love any feedback :)

space station: http://goo.gl/0kTGmg

Tangram: http://goo.gl/0jF5zh

Let me know if for some reason you cant download the files!

I am also thinking about a gears project aimed at using LCMs, Ratios and 3D printing a crane or something, but haven't gotten beyond a couple of worksheets, and will not be doing it this year.

I had kids convert the 40x40 puzzle to 8x8 and do the calculations for each part.  Also, next year will have them calculate the cost to print, and explain that we only print 15% of the actual volume.  Lots of potential for math there.

The space station we did not print this year, but I plan to have kids design and print whichever station they decide to support for their proposal.

-Josh

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 3:36:17 PM UTC-5, Tatian Greenleaf wrote:

[Lucie deLaBruere]

Joshua

This is AWESOME.  no.. actually its SUPER AWESOME. 

How do you feel about sharing it outside this group? I have a teacher who would LOVE this.   And if you are open to sharing this outside this group,  how can we best provide attribution to you?  Name?   Title? School?  

 link to your G+? 

Lucie

[Joshua Gold]

Thanks for the VERY kind words :)  My district isnt really into this sort of out of the box stuff and dont get that kind of feedback too often.

Anyway, share as much as you would like with whomever.  I would LOVE any feedback, changes, improvements, extensions, etc. I am currently working on setting up my blog (belated by many years) in time for a couple of presentations I am making in March.  

I'll try to add it to documents, but feel free to attribute to:

Josh Gold

Math Teacher, Hanscom Middle School

jgo...@gmail.com

Facebook: http://goo.gl/gCzPqA

Blog: http://killercatfish.com/

Glad you like it!  Right now I am working on some Arduino (arduino.cc) projects to bridge math with programming and gaming.  The fun part is that the arduino + touchscreen shout for 3D printing enclosures :-)

[Jonathan Rothman]

I've created various materials and lessons last year that were aggregated on Liz Arum's SPOLearningLab site.  This curriculum is really focused on developing a solid foundation in 3D modeling and design through the lense of mathematics when and wherever possible.   

I've been developing more materials this year, but haven't gotten the chance to organize and share with the kind of coherence that would make it worthwhile for others to dig through.  But I do have a ton of "paint by numbers" style modeling lessons/projects geared towards less motivated/lower skilled students here on Vimeo.   Feel free to look over and adapt.

Most recently, Autodesk rolled out their Project Ignite initiative, which adds a Code Academy-type skin over TinkerCAD.  I've been using it now for a week in my classroom and really have to say - they're off to a great start.  The lessons they developed in house are solid and appropriately balanced between building software skills and modeling concepts.  I've been building online worksheets through Google Docs (examples here and here) to accompany the lessons and help keep kids attuned to important information and accountable to the daily work.  Project Ignite is still in development, but as more educator's join and build their own lessons using Project Ignite's framework, I'm sure it'll get stronger and stronger.  

Hopefully this'll help.  Let's keep building a stronger and stronger repository of lessons that offer engaging projects within a coherent conceptual and skill building context.  I come across more and more all the time....

Jonathan Rothman

Academy for Software Engineering

NYC

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[Lucie deLaBruere]

Thanks for much for sharing about Project IGNITE.  I'm looking into it right now.

Your information on spolearninglab looks awesome.

I was trying to figure out who/what is spolearninglab  

The email attached goes to http://specialprojectoffice.com/  

The lessons I clicked on that you submitted had a Creative Commons credit attached so I assume they are okay to use and share with attribution. 

Nice work!

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Jonathan Rothman <jrot...@afsenyc.org> wrote:

I've created various materials and lessons last year that were aggregated on Liz Arum's SPOLearningLab site.  This curriculum is really focused on developing a solid foundation in 3D modeling and design through the lense of mathematics when and wherever possible.   

I've been developing more materials this year, but haven't gotten the chance to organize and share with the kind of coherence that would make it worthwhile for others to dig through.  But I do have a ton of "paint by numbers" style modeling lessons/projects geared towards less motivated/lower skilled students here on Vimeo that you're welcome to check out and adopt.

Most recently, Autodesk rolled out their Project Ignite initiative, which adds a Code Academy-type skin to TinkerCAD.  I've been using it now for a week in my classroom and really have to say - they're off to a great start.  The lessons they developed in house are solid and appropriately balanced between building software skills and modeling concepts.  I've been building online worksheets through Google Docs (example) to accompany the lessons and help keep kids attuned to important information and accountable to the daily work.  Project Ignite is still in development, but as more educator's join and build their own lessons using Project Ignite's framework, I'm sure it'll get stronger and stronger.  

Hopefully this'll help.  Let's keep building a stronger and stronger repository of lessons that offer engaging projects within coherent conceptual and skill building context.  I come across more and more all the time....

Jonathan Rothman

Academy for Software Engineering

NYC

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 3:36:17 PM UTC-5, Tatian Greenleaf wrote:

I'm thinking about teaching a 3D modeling elective for 7th & 8th graders using Tinkercad.  Does anyone teach something similar and would you be willing to share what types of lessons you teach (even just an outline would be much appreciated!).  I'll re-invent the wheel if I have to but I just spent a lot of time designing and fabricating a Spin Art machine unit for my 3rd graders and I'm a little burnt out.  ;)

In case you're interested, here's a one minute time-lapse video of me putting together the kit I created:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4az-mN1cng

Students are refreshing their knowledge of electrical circuits from our paper circuits unit earlier in the year and are experiencing the "beautiful" aspect of this art process as part of my "5 B's" curriculum - Build, Bot, Burst, Beautiful, Become.

Tatian

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Tatian Greenleaf
Associate Director of Technology

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Mark Day School (formerly Saint Mark's School)
(415) 472-8000 x1014

Tinker Time Blog

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[Clarence Fisher]

This is really great stuff! You have done A LOT of work bringing all of this together. Congratulations for all of this work and thank you for doing it.

Clarence

[Joshua Gold]

Thanks for sharing!!

I actually have a few students working on a spin art project with arduino and 3d printers.  Glad to have some extra guidance!

[neobob...@gmail.com]

Not wanting to cross-post, I want to refer group members to this post about the Tinkercad Tutorial series I've been building out on YouTube. - Bob

[3DC io]

Hey

We did a survey with Estonian teachers and 45% of them said that the biggest problem with 3D modeling is not having enough assignments. This is why we started with making an assignment collection. I have attached the first assignment in PDF format and would love your feedback on it.

Kind regards,
Kristjan Järvan

[Lizabeth Arum]

Check out printer agnostic resources including lessons and tutorials at the bottom of the page: https://Ultimaker.com/education

The first part of lessons and tutorials are by Ultimaker pioneers, the list below are links to lessons and tutorials on the internet, you might also want to look at lesson starters under the 3D printing in classroom section