3D Printing and Writing - Explanation of Steps for Market Day

 

These examples of writing are partly to explain the use of the 3D Printers (Snapmakers) with the classroom but also examples of how the students are using 3D Printing to shape their writing.  In these examples the students have been recording the key stages and parts of the process, using their iPads to document and record the steps.   

They have been asked to write a description for each step to illustrate the process and these explanations (when finished and completed) will be printed using the school printer.

These will be printed A2 size and put on display as part of the school market day process showing the innovation process.   They will be printed on corrugated cardboard and put on display.   We are incredibly fortunate to have a wide range of technology available to our students, which is listed on this blog and it is also fantastic to show the community, many of whom directly help with things such as fundraising from our PTA how their technology is used to help our students with projects and innovation.

The students in the classroom that we are working with are based in the junior school.   The classroom students are Y3 and Y4 which means that they are eight and nine years old.  This is not reflected in their creations or designs (which I would rate as highly as the senior students that I have previously taught) but is reflected at times with some of their additional work, in this case the level of the writing which is a work in progress.