This week 7th graders learned about creating mazes with Tinkercad and 3D printing. Designers also created a Tic Tac Toe game with HTV vinyl and the Cricut as well as pieces designed and cut on the Glowforge. |
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Global Maker Day PresentationMakers Empire - Making MonstersCookiecad and Monster Making Cookie Cutters
Next my designers shared the games that they have been developing to get feedback about how to improve their game. As always the first meeting was more subdued but the take aways were super powerful for both groups.
I introduced the Criteria and Constraints for the project the next day. Designers started with the template with cover and I reminded them to go back to the Maze Video Tutorial or directions if they had questions as they were designing that the person next to them couldn't answer. Over the course of the next few days, designers watched an Edpuzzle 3D Certification video playlist that I developed so that each designer would have time to learn how to print their maze and teach another designer.
About a month ago, our Bambu X1C printer arrived. Here is the first part of our journey.
Arrival and Unpacking
Our First Prints
My First Design
Using Cricut Design Space to create an infusible ink bag designed for their kinder buddy to hold their 3D printed bubble wands, designers shared the first Morphi designed bubble wands that have been printed. They also created together using the Micro:Bit. Fridays rock with mentoring!
In this mentoring, mentors were paired together and then worked as a team with 2-3 kindergartners. This has helped with the anxiety that many of my mentors experience at first when starting to work with a younger buddy. Coming next week.....
Each designer keeps their original prototype before teams select the final designs that they will create and sell.
Glowforge Tutorials
This past fall while visiting Lee Briggs classroom at Toki Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, I was inspired by how he had created different learning certifications for the tools he has in his classroom. It took me several months and some great shared resources to create my own version for our 3D printers.
I also focused on four design programs that we use - Tinkercad, Cookiecad, Morphi, and Makers Empire so that designers would learn how to create and not just find and print other designer files. The certification consists of ten 5 minute or less videos. Upon completion of the certification, designers earn $10 towards their design budget for our classroom.
3D Printing Certification (example video)
Ms. Moll captured beautifully the work that our first semester group of 8th grade designers made happen for our 3rd grade buddies. I love seeing the joy that my designers created by mentoring in 3D printing, Glowforge laser designs, and Makers Empire.
Thank you to the InfyMakers grant and VAEF grant for supporting this project! As part of our Youth Empowerment Justice and Joy course for Grade 6, I used the Challenge Central Making a Difference Module from Makers Empire as a guide for our learning and creating. Day 1Day 2 and 3The integration of using Makers Empire and the videos in Challenge Central along with the paper activities that supported the process made this a very powerful resource for me as a teacher. Day 4, 5, and 6This was where the magic really happened as teams worked together to create prototypes and get feedback about their design choices. Day 7 - Preparing for our Fundraiser
Mixtape of Student Learning about Circuits and Makey MakeyMentoring
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. |
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