I’ve been itching for a chance to incorporate my 3D printers meaningfully into my science curriculum and finally came up with an idea! We have just finished a unit on gravity, and I could see several ways gravity is essential to the 3D printing process. Today, I introduced students to the printer, its parts, and how it works. Students have been watching it print from the spaceship lesson I did with my enrichment group last month, so they had some basic background knowledge, but this was a good way to answer questions whole group and talk about misconceptions. For example, they didn’t realize the spools of filament were a type of plastic. Tomorrow, students will compose paragraphs about how the 3D printer relies somewhat on gravity in order to work. We will be using the 1 paragraph templates from Writing Revolution (love this program!) to plan first. I have provided a word bank of the key vocabulary we learned about in our unit that students should be able to incorporate correctly in the paragraph.
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