TInkercad Vs. Minecraft Part Two

 

Yesterdays classroom challenge was to use two distinct design tools to see if the same object could be replicated as closely as possible.    

We have used Tinkercad extensively as a design tool for our Y3 and Y4 classroom this year, during this time the students design ideas and creations have grown in leaps and bounds.   Yesterdays challenge provided a range of results, the following day a number of students provided additional designs which were more refined, had more detail and also brought some of the details to the fore.

In both the examples above and below, the Panda and the Mushroom Cow the students were able to put detail and colour combinations into the prints.   The Tinkercad design is on the left on the students original design plate - the relevant animal from Minecraft is on the right with a screenshot from the educational release of the game.

The challenge has pushed the students design skills to get something right, to replicate it and to design something by following a plan.  As they do not have the exact design tools in Minecraft that they have in Tinkercad they had to be create and adapt what they were building and problem solve.

We also wanted to give students the chance to use both tools to create a static object and then use the building tools of both programs.   In the example shown left the student opted for a 'Rainbow' design and used the colour palette in both programs to complete it.  There are a considerable range of designs and prints in this run and we will be using other formats to publish these designs at a later date.