3D Design and Printing with TinkerCad

This summer, Amanda (Ballinger) Del Real was part of our Advanced STEAM Teacher Cohort. One of the projects that she learned about was the animal and plant cell 3D design and printing. Her 5th grade team at Castlemont, Christa Norum and Susan Evans, had their classes participate in the project too! 
After learning about the different cell organelles, students sketched and labeled their own cells. Amanda Haughs and I later helped introduce the students to TinkerCad and how to use it to build their own 3D cell model. One of their favorite tools was making "new shapes" by cutting holes and grouping existing ones. We made sure to highlight the math connections with metric measurement, scaling, geometry, and degrees!



Students then saved their finished cells as .stl files in their Google Drive. Then Josh Britton our STEAMSpace leader at Monroe helped print a few cells out for each class! Thank you all for the awesome STEAM teamwork!



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  1. Anonymous4/06/2016

    I LOVE this idea! What a great way to use 3D Printers!!

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  2. Anonymous4/06/2016

    I LOVE this idea! What a great way to use 3D Printers!!

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