ImagineIT Timeline
My goal is to continue to use 3D design to enhance student learning. We are still focusing on taking ideas and creating 3D designs with those plans. I am realizing that 3D design does not necessarily mean just using the 3D printer. We have brought animal hybrids from paper to life with play dough, drew water wheels created and created them with pasta and clay, cut out wind wheels and folded them to create our own turbines that picked up paper clips, drew Rube Goldberg machines and made them come to life in the students’ homes.
I want to continue this design path and move towards using the actual 3D printer and software to make 2D designs tangible. With time constraints it has been difficult but we have started in my after school club. The students are creating board games using Quizlet for the “cards”, making the game board on construction paper, and next week we will be 3D designing models of their heads to use as game pieces. My goal is to have their game boards with QR codes to link to Quizlet cards and their avatars printed by the end of February. In my Science class, our next unit of study is Plate Tectonics. My goal is to have the students model the continents with the 3D printer and physically move their 3D printed continents to how they moved millions of years ago and create stop motion videos. I plan to have this completed before Spring Break in April. Another project I have planned is hatching chickens in the classroom. I want the students to create models of the embryo in the egg using the 3D printer before school ends in June.
My wildest hope for my ImagineIT is for the students to use the 3D printer and software in their creations during Friday’s Makers Day which we implement at least every other Friday for an hour during Science time. I want the students to be comfortable with printing, troubleshooting the printer, and learning from the mistakes in their designs in order to alter them and make it work.
I want to continue this design path and move towards using the actual 3D printer and software to make 2D designs tangible. With time constraints it has been difficult but we have started in my after school club. The students are creating board games using Quizlet for the “cards”, making the game board on construction paper, and next week we will be 3D designing models of their heads to use as game pieces. My goal is to have their game boards with QR codes to link to Quizlet cards and their avatars printed by the end of February. In my Science class, our next unit of study is Plate Tectonics. My goal is to have the students model the continents with the 3D printer and physically move their 3D printed continents to how they moved millions of years ago and create stop motion videos. I plan to have this completed before Spring Break in April. Another project I have planned is hatching chickens in the classroom. I want the students to create models of the embryo in the egg using the 3D printer before school ends in June.
My wildest hope for my ImagineIT is for the students to use the 3D printer and software in their creations during Friday’s Makers Day which we implement at least every other Friday for an hour during Science time. I want the students to be comfortable with printing, troubleshooting the printer, and learning from the mistakes in their designs in order to alter them and make it work.