Background: Its a current classroom challenge, involving our Y3 and Y4 students with a design brief to create something unique for Christmas. The students are using Tinkercad in their student classroom accounts. Previous designs in this series have included the Christmas Angel as posted on this blog.
This students is a Y4 student who has been using Tinkercad for a relative short time, since half way through the year. The design was completed in a short space of time using the main interface. The details were added to the tree.
Level of Difficulty: Medium - the main interface was used and manipulated and the design that as created was done so quickly and creatively by the student involved. The timeframe for this original design was under five minutes from the start to the completion. There was no teacher input.
Size: The tree measured 80mm high and was 70mm wide at the base of the tree, narrowing as it reached the top. The star was added to the design to signify the tree and also had an insert to allow it to be attached to the tree.
What we would do differently/next steps for the students: The star at the top of the tree had a narrow point of contact, which needed the teacher to remove the gap, ideally if it had been structured differently the student would have been able to pop it out himself. The trunk/base of the tree as you can see from the design shown in the photograph is not centre, the student wanted to shift its position. Finally the student wanted to print it out using the filament that had the shimmer affect.
Finally as per usual with a design like this there is opportunity for it to run through a range of filters to alter its design and display. We have been doing this in both the original Tinkercad design, but also using additional web based programs such as Pixton and iPad Apps such as Pic Collage.
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