2025 Year in Review - Tinkercad Hunt

In October 2025 we had our Auroa Primary School Pet Day - this is the biggest event as part of the school year, where there are a range of activities, one of which is the whimsical diorama build.

We took this as an opportunity to refine our students 3D building skills - by using the dioramas as the background for some unique Tinkercad building!  With the students using their iPads to take photographs of the display the students then used their iPads and the Tinkercad App to create something that could fit into the scene.   When the students had completed the design they then took their iPads back to the diorama and added the creation, the object into the scene virtually and took a photograph of the final result.  This taught the students about the composition and the design details and also refined their design skills.  In the example shown top left in the Christmas grotto scene the 'Snowman' that dominates the front left of the design is not actually there!

This task was completed by a class of seven and eight year olds independently and the slideshow below shows a range of photographs taken by the students on the day.   We will be trying again with this process and this task next year in several forms.