3D Printed Bookmark - Tinkercad Design Challenge

 

Tinkercad have a series of design challenges that are built into the main website.  These are suitable for students and we have started to use them as a challenge for students who are showing clear design ideas.

Some of the them revisit themes and examples that we are able to provide that have featured previously on this blog as a general challenge for students.  As there is a template button however the challenge and its design focus is something that is easily approachable and allows students to develop their design skills.

The current challenge, which closes tomorrow is a design challenge around producing a bookmark for use with reading.   Our students have designed various bookmarks previously and examples of which can be seen on this blog here or you can use the search function on the right hand side of this blog to look at a range of examples.

In this example shown left a student wanted to use the design features of Tinkercad to design a 'cat' themed bookmark.  The student concerned has shown a clear level of design ability during her time in the classroom and is now a Y4 student that is someone who is eight years old who has been designing and creating using Tinkercad for two years, many of the designs that she has been involved in have been featured on this blog.

Level of Difficulty: Medium - this design is deceptively simple for this student to create and while she was able to complete it in a very short timeframe, with the composition that she used, it is not something that every student could create.

Size: This was designed to book in conjunction with a regular bookmark.   There was the potential to complete a different dimension for the print, however it would have limited the viability to print a class set.   The print 

Timeframe: One hour, fifteen minutes.  The design included a degree of rafting that could have avoided if the back had been flat, instead of slightly raised however this would have affected the design, which would have meant that the head did not slide between the pages.

What we would do differently/next steps for students: This is a design that is one of a series.   By undertaking it the template, the lesson plan and the information the lesson could be supplied to students by a single click and they were then able to engage with the lesson and complete the task.  

Again we have a challenge and task which has required minimal input to allow us to complete a class based activity where the students have been able to design, create and then print.