Today was the meet and greet with new partners, using Wakelet to choose a video about 3D printing, and introducing Makers Empire to a new group of designers.
This week our 7th grade designers met their new partners for the new unit. With 3D Printing and Design, my designers get the opportunity to mentor Ms. Minter's 3rd grade students. Today was the meet and greet with new partners, using Wakelet to choose a video about 3D printing, and introducing Makers Empire to a new group of designers.
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This week was the start of the 3D Design and Printing unit for our 7th grade group. I started out with introducing Cookiecad so that designers could see a print that they created. Using a silhouette image of their choice, students learned to use Cookiecad and engaged in the challenge of downloading and sharing .stl files on an iPad. While the Cookiecad .stl files printed, designers started to rediscover and try for the first time Makers Empire through the training lab, challenge central, and videos from the training lab. Today we made cookies from pie crust, cinnamon, and sugar. This type of cookie worked well with the cookie cutters.
On Monday, I had to postpone our mentor printing after realizing that many of my designers didn't have all of the prints needed for our 3rd graders to be able to see and experience their 3D printing with us. On the same day, I removed one of the coolest designed prints to date. David had been quietly working on creating his cereal dispenser on Tinkercad and it blew me away with the moving doors and thought involved in the design. Listen to him explain his design in his own words....
Mentoring ... Day 2
This Friday was the first time that our 8th grade designers started to mentor Ms. Moll's third grade students in 3D Design and Printing. They learned about each other, shared a 3D video, and helped their partner log in to Makers Empire.
3D Design and Printing Unit
For the last few weeks, designers in our 3D Design and Build class have been learning about the world of 3D design and printing. Using Wakelet, my students accessed videos about 3D Printing in Our World, 3D Communities, and 3D Printing for a Purpose. In the first printing rotation, they found a print in 3D Communities that they wanted to print where they learned how to slice and use the printer.
In the second printing rotation, they learned how to use Makers Empire, Morphi EDU, and Tinkercad to create a print that serves a purpose in our school, home, or community. Currently they are in the process of iterating their designs using the Design Thinking Process. As I read the mentor reflections from our bubble wand project of mentoring in 3D Design and Printing, it reminds me of the value of mentoring for our middle school designers. Next year I hope to find even more powerful ways to have my designers collaborate with our younger learners.
Recap of Reed MentorshipRecap of Roetker MentorshipRecap of Klingbeil MentorshipRecap of Moll Mentorship
Student ReflectionsSince the development of Osmo, I have been in love with the technology of integrating an iPad with physical world to design and learn. One of my favorite apps with Osmo is Osmo Masterpiece. There are a lot of create introductions to this tool, but this is the video I shared with my designers.
My favorite part was listening to the excitement as designers realized that their drawings were being captured in time lapse and they could watch themselves draw in fast motion. Lithophanes and Osmo Masterpiece or YouiDraw |
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