3D Printed Skeleton - How do we extend this?

Challenge: Students want to print a skeleton - how can they use this 3D Printed skeleton for some kind of learning opportunity.   How can it be combined with another original aspect of 3D Printing.

Background: We are constantly trying to encourage the students at our school to think outside the box with their 3D printing and focus on being original and producing something that somehow adds to a design or hacks away at the way it might be used.   

A good example of this is the original flexi-animals and how they developed for our school market day.   Originally the students locating these via Thingiverse were able to print them, however they were not an original piece of work.   The solution in that case came via the ability to make packaging and secondary items to tie in with the design.   While these were the initial steps they eventually evolved into a student taking responsibility for cracking the code and producing an entire range of prints based around flexi-animals.   

The skeleton on the left was located by a student keen to print it.   The student was posed the question - how could you use this to show learning and what would that learning look like? When they initially couldn't articulate this to a level that the teacher was happy with they were asked to go back and think again - how could you use this when it was made? What else could you add or create that would be original that would go with this?

The answer came from the students looks to develop some additional resources to go with the print.  The students are looking at designing some very basic organs such as a heart, liver and kidneys and then making a way that the print can be combined with them to identify their location on the body.    While this is a little bit of stretch particularly as its a comedy skeleton it felt it could be a potential explanation for its use.

Level of Difficulty: Low.   The design of course was open sourced from Thingiverse.  TheThe additional human organs were designed and are being designed using the basic Tinkercad interface.

Size: The default print size was used for this printing.  It was 210mm from the top of the skull to the toes and was 60mm across at its widest point.   It was 8mm thick.   These were dictated by the design when it was downloaded and the student was happy with the dimensions.

What we would do differently/next step for the students: It has got a student who has been reluctant to use the technology in the past to engage with the technology, which we are hopeful will lead onto other proects.