3D Design and Printing in MYP Design Lessons

 The 6th-grade students have worked very hard on their 3D Prosthetic solutions in  Design lessons. 

Throughout the unit, students researched mobility issues and solutions. They drew up plans, and schedules and discussed their chosen designs. They then designed their prostheses using these designs and Tinkercad 3D design software.

We spent a few weeks printing off the designs on our many LRC 3D printers. In some cases tweaks needed to happen first while other models needed deconstructing in order to print them off prior to reconstructing them post-printing. 

Students were able to handle their designs,  examine and test them prior to considering ways in which to further and improve them. Many also chose to decorate them using the 3Doodler pens, while others were planning to take them home for painting. The students really engaged with the 3D printing pens some even took them to the next level and began new 3D designs while others have spent every break since in the LRC working on a variety of 3D designs. 

One of the great things about additive manufacturing is that students create tangible objects based on their ideas and plans which can be handled as models, added to larger designs and compiled together to build solutions. The process brings further relevance to the work they do in class as the theoretical becomes tangible through the printing process. 

We have a nice collection of photographs from the later weeks of the project as well as a short video which we hope you will find interesting.

3d design by Jennifer Garcialrc