Using Tinkercad to AR/VR School Improvements

 

This challenge has combined the use of Tinkercad as a design tool with students and their iPads and the Tinkercad App with its ability to project students designs into an AR/VR setting (essentially anywhere, without the need to green screen).

Our students focus with this task is to look around our school for potential improvement, details or ways that we could enhance the presentation of the school, 

 Once the students have identified an area and a solution or improvement the students were tasked with using Tinkercad to create an object that we could then place in the location to use as a discussion point.  At this stage the students are beginning this task with discussion points - the example shown above is the students have identified that the sandpit tools for the school could be stored close to the sandpit for easy access.   The box design shown is rudimentary at the moment, the challenge will develop for the students to create something with more detail, improve how it might function, add detail and then present this to the schools management.

We had a very short timeframe for the beginning of this task - students had a ten minute countdown timer set on their iPads and this included the design part of the task, taking the photo and identifying a potential problem.

An early attempt to create a unique vegetable garden is shown left, the students are going to add depth and more details to their virtual garden (as we have done with examples such as the virtual Christmas Tree from last year, linked here)

Other students have identified areas such as the school flagpole, the walls of some of the classrooms (where they want to create or bring murals to the fore) and improvements to the playground.  Each of these areas has potential development and skills required to introduce a concept and think about its composition, display and the ability to AR/VR the scene.  This is not always as easy as it seems - we have discovered that while Tinkercad works extremely well from a ground basis as it is raised it can be particularly challenging to raise above ground level significantly as we discovered when working on the students bird blockers project.

This is a process that is in its very early stages with our classroom - it will be contributed to and developed over the coming school weeks.

If you would like additional examples of our students using the Tinkercad App and web browser with its AR/VR feature from the Tinkercad App you can use the search bar top right hand corner of this site.