
At this time the 3D printer has been used to teach our kindergarten students about new technologies while also looking at how 2D shapes compose 3D shapes. While watching the 3D printer print a selected design for their teacher from Thingiverse, our students assembled 3D printed interlocking triangles to create tetrahedrons and then were given their own interlocking cube or tetrahedron. I sized the stl file on the MakerBot so that I could print many small interlocking shapes so that each student had one. I found that they became pretty fragile when sized too small, which is what I did.
