Free Professional Development: 3D Printing in the Classroom

Description: Looking to incorporate 3D printing into your classroom? This training will equip you with the tools you need to bring your curriculum to life with maker technologies. The instructors’ Make: Math series of books (Make: Geometry, Make: Trigonometry, Make: Calculus and the Make: Math Teacher’s Supplement) have made math more fun and tactile, and the same principles can be applied to a range of disciplines. The training will utilize two free computer-aided design tools: the web-based Tinkercad and the open-source program OpenSCAD, which is ideal for math modeling and learning text-based coding.

Details of each day:
First day: 3D printing possibilities and design
How 3D printers work, available 3D printable materials, designing for print success, and the 3D printing design-slice-print workflow.

Second day: Project ideas and applications
Ideas for curriculum-tied projects with examples of student work; an introduction to OpenSCAD for math modeling; a walk through freely-available math and science models; using 3D printing to motivate learning coding.

Participants should bring their own laptop or Chromebook device if possible, and know the brand of their school’s 3D printers (if any).

Instructors: Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, Nonscriptum LLC

This opportunity and all materials are sponsored by Amolen through a collaboration with the Institute for Educational Advancement and Nonscriptum LLC.