While the price has varied we have made it clear that the school would print these out, and we could make them available to students on a basis of the PLA required to print them. We have had a number of students take us up on this offer but also have had a number of students who have taken the opportunity to purchase these from a variety of locations. In the photograph shown the students used a variety of dragons and compared themselves with the others. We used the measure app on the students iPads to compare the length, and based on the knowledge of the printing time of the school printing we applied the size of the dragons to each other to make some mathematical statements.
The dragon shown top was located at a market in Australia by a student who was on holiday, he purchased it and we have since located the .stl file allowing us to print this at our school (we had to purchase it online for a small fee). The second and third dragons from the top were created for the school Market Day which took place in 2023. These dragons were printed and are available online described as an 'ice dragon'. You can click on the link to the business details from last year here.
The first three dragons have been purchased locally at various market days. We have used these as the basis for various designs here in the classroom, including the student who is designing a completely original dragon from scratch using the Tinkercad website.
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