Topic: 3D Design
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Learning in the Making: Sewing
Practice sewing skills by making a stuffed animal while following along with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Shapes in Nature
Using geometric shapes that occur in nature as inspiration, design and build a sound structure for your stuffed animal with paper dowels by following along with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Paper Box Motion Story
The Paper Box Motion Story is like a tiny, manual movie theatre! It can be used to summarize information, share learned facts, and even create and tell fictional stories. Follow along with this activity video and project guide to make your own as you read and reflect on Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The True…
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Cyber Arcade: Programming and Making with micro:bit
This curriculum is a fun and creative introduction to computer science and hands-on making for makers in elementary and middle school grade levels with little to no experience in programming and 3D design. Using a Micro:bit and MakeCode, young makers practice problem-solving and teamwork to create interactive arcade games.
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Water Mapping
This activity plan draws on Indigenous observation practices to explore and map all the places water lives around you, where it comes from, where it travels to, and what other relatives it comes in contact with.
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Design an Inclusive Play Space
This lesson plan involves learners in mathematical thinking about measurement and scaling, spatial reasoning, and the engineering mindset through 3D modeling with Tinkercad.
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The Tech Interactive: Activities
This library of design challenges and science experiments cover topics like physics, chemistry, engineering, the environment and more! They include parent tips and are also available in both English and Spanish.
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TinkerCad Education
Tinkercad, an easy-to-use web app for design, offers standards-aligned lesson plans across all subjects.
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MENTOR Makerspace Project: High School Makerspace Tools and Materials
This guide includes handy lists of equipment, tools, and materials – organized by kind of space and medium of making – for kickstarting making in high school.