We are excited to announce the newest addition to our 3D Printing Curriculm: Electoral Madness. Developed by educators Liz Ramos and John Stevens, this new lesson that incorporates 3D printing in the classroom could not be any more timely. As we quickly head towards one of the most controversial and widely discussed presidential elections in […]
Why should you buy 3D printers for your school? More employers are looking for students who have working knowledge of 3D printers and their processes. As such, if you buy a 3D printer for the classroom, your students will receive relevant skill sets that improve their chances at employment. It will also enable them to […]
Jillian Johnson Sharp, the Orange County Department of Education, The CTE Partnership, together with colleagues, friends and supporters, such as Vital Link, did the honors of hosting the award ceremony of the OC STEM Challenge and announcing the ocMaker Challenge 2016 winners. The ocMaker Challenge is a school 3D printer competition, an integrated STEM project […]
Students will design and print a custom water wheel that can operate for an uninterrupted 90 seconds.
Students will use 3D printing technology to learn how to produce models of themselves at 1:10 scale.
Students will design and print a custom vehicle with functioning wheels.
Students will design and print a customized protractor that is mathematically accurate.
Students will design a cookie cutter that cuts at least 6 cookies with equivalent dimensions.
Students will design a holiday ornament using a 3D modeling program that incorporates at least one example of reflection and one example of rotation.
Students will design and produce a tool to improve or modify a specific process.
Students will be able to create 3D containers with an appropriate flow rate, determine how fast the water in a 3D tank is dropping, and verify the flow rate of a 3D object using differentiation.
Students will design and produce a cell phone holder that serves, at a minimum, as a charging station for a smartphone of their choice.
The Bridge Challenge Standards 3-PS2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 3-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions Depending on the grade level and depth of understanding required, certain CCSS Math standards about equations are applicable. Standards for Mathematical Practice CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2: Reason abstractly and […]
Roll The Dice Standards Symmetry CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.G.A.3 Constructions CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.CO.D.12CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.CO.D.13 Standards for Mathematical Practice CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4: Model with mathematics. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6: Attend to precision. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7: Look for and […]
NICU Transilluminator Standards Circuitry Geometry Volume Surface Area Standards for Mathematical Practice CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4: Model with mathematics. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6: Attend to precision. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7: Look for and make […]
Students will design and create a 3-dimensional object with equivalent values of surface area and volume.
The Draining Tank Problem Standard (From the California State Calculus Standards): 4.0 Students demonstrate an understanding of the formal definition of the derivative of a function at a point and the notion of differentiability 9.0 Students use differentiation to sketch, by hand, graphs of functions. They can identify maxima, minima, inflection points, and intervals in which the […]
The Best Handicap Ramp Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.7: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.8: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.SRT.C.8: Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right […]
3D Printing & the Arduino Board A desired outcome is a container that will perfectly fit an Arduino Uno R3 board, along with a push-button and LED light that both fit flush with the lid and are operational.
The Right Tool Standards A wide variety of Volume Standards are applicable, depending on the grade level and skill level of the students. Standards for Mathematical Practice CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4: Model with […]
Bike Clamp and Push Holster NGSS Standards MS.Forces and Interactions HS.Forces and Interactions MS-PS3-2 Energy Standards for Mathematical Practice CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4: Model with mathematics. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6: […]