The following list of 3D printing ideas was created through extensive research and my own personal experiences with 3D Printing.
- Create jewelry and 3D art
- Allows students to discuss art concepts and styles
- Recreate molecule structures in Chemistry class
- Allows students to explore chemistry concepts in three dimensions
- Print 3D models of historical artifacts (i.e. 3D printing a pyramid from Ancient Egypt)
- Helps students visualize and reflect on historical events and ancient civilizations
- Print 3D models of fossils and dinosaurs (i.e. 3D printing a Trex skull)
- Helps students visualize what dinosaurs looked like
- Print human organs or other organisms
- Allows students to explore biological and medical concepts deeper that the 2D recreations found in textbooks and video
- For example, students can 3D print a brain and mount the brain on a tri-fold board to help explain the different parts in more detail
- Students can also 3D print a dissect-able frog to help explore biological concepts
- For example, students can 3D print a brain and mount the brain on a tri-fold board to help explain the different parts in more detail
- Allows students to explore biological and medical concepts deeper that the 2D recreations found in textbooks and video
- Design a house in SketchUp and then 3D print
- Explore the concepts of scale, perimeter, area, and coordinate graphing
- Recreate a city (i.e. Researching a particular city and recreate the city using Tinkercad)
- Forces students to use research skills and higher order thinking to recreate their own micro version of a particular city
- Design a product that solves a real world issue or fills a void in the current market (i.e. An affordable water filter for third world countries, iPad stand)
- Students can write concept proposals in literacy class
- Students can research previous concepts and innovations in Social Studies
- Students can develop their concept in Science and Math class (allows the teacher to discuss concepts of measurement, scale, materials etc.)
