3D printers are an exciting new technology just starting to gain a foothold in schools. Once built, a printer facilitates many creative endeavors and links to math, science, art, and more. Building a 3D printer is a great project for a school club or a project-based classroom because students have to integrate STEM skills and work as a team. Students who build a printer from scratch (as opposed to just buying a kit or a completed machine) will have a detailed understand how it works and will be able to properly maintain and operate it.
Here we are developing and making available a 3D printer club curriculum that any school can use. We’re developing these lesson plans as they are tested in an elementary school club, with members in grades 2-5. This page will be updates with the latest lesson plans and resources as they are developed.
Update 22 April 2024: Here’s a list of files I was able to recover.
Could you send me all lesons? id like to check it and if is posible and i like the material files we would like to do it in our school
I was unable to recover all of the files, but I’ve added back what I currently can. I’ll take a look through my archives later and see if I can find more.
Thank you for sharing so freely with all of us! We have after-school coding and robotics clubs at our local elementary school here in Fresno, CA. I just found you today when I searched for creative commons certificates in SVG format. I look forward to using your material – and hopefully I can contribute something to help you someday!
I am from the Netherlands and interested in setting up such a 3d printer school club.
Could you please give me guide lines/set up/ frame work in order to start??
I am struggling to find the lesson plans – I see where you set up club teams and established roles, but I’m looking for help to meaningfully teach 3D printing to my elementary Gifted students.
I would love to see what your lesson plans are/were? I am trying to get a club together and would like to have more than just tinkercad lessons.
Hi Rachel. Most of what I had should already be online, but I’m afraid many of them were lost when the team laptop died (which was a teaching moment in and of itself). I highly recommend trying a DIY build from scratch. The technology has changed quite a lot, of course, and new printers area actually pretty cheap these days, but the kids really loved building their own, and the journey was the destination in that effort.
Oh I just noticed that the file lister is broken on this page. 😮 Let me work on getting that fixed!
I would also be really interested in these files, as I’m starting a 3d print / technology group at our local primary school. Please fix the file lister!
Thank you very much in advance.
I’m sorry I was unable to recover all of the files, but I have added back what I could at this time. I’ll have a look through my archives for more.
I was unable to recover all of the files, but I’ve added back what I currently can. I’ll take a look through my archives later and see if I can find more.