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Digital Fabrication

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Fab@School Designer is digital fabrication software, allowing students and teachers to create three dimensional designs on the computer.  Using the Silhouette SD printer, designs are printed in two dimension.  The printed design has cuts and perforations so it can be manipulated to create a three dimensional product.  

 

Students can design and build 3D boxes, pyramids, wind turbines, animals, vehicles, and much more.


 

See Fab@School Designer in action:

 


 


How does the Fab@School Designer work?

 


Students begin with blank gridlines.  They use shapes or lines to create their design.  

 

They can rotate, resize, alter, and mirror any of their shapes depending on what they're making.  

 

Students must use their problem solving skills to create a 3D object on their 2D screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secondly, students must determine which lines will be cut or perforated.  They must make sure that the cut lines meet, perforated lines do not overlap and they included the proper tabs.  

 

Critical thinking skills are necessary to ensure the design can support itself, support any weight, or perform an action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students can choice from a library of shape and objects to embellish their design.  They can personalize with colors or words as well.  

 

This is a chance for students to creatively modify their work.

 

 

Finally, it's time for fabrication!  Students print on their 2D paper and assemble their design in 3D.  

 


 

Fab@School Design and 21st Century Frameworks in the Classroom:

 

Creativity: The possibilities are endless with the software as to what students can design.  Whether solving an environmental problem, determining packaging for an invention, or exploring basic geometry, students must think through their design.

 

Collaboration: Students can work together to brainstorm, create, and build their design. They can also work together to build different parts of the overall design. For example, if designing a new school, each team member can create a different wing. They must collaborate to make sure the school fits together in form and function.

 

Critical Thinking: Critical thinking skills are necessary for the design to come to fruition. Students  think through the shape, cuts, tabs, and perforations in their work. When designing, problem solving skills ensure their structure will successfully function.

 

Communication: Communication skills are necessary to complete the design with a team. Students must clearly express any technical difficulties, design questions and modifications.

 

STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics


Lesson Example:

 

 

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade Level Expectations: First Grade
Standard: 4. Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Shapes can be described by defining attributes and created by composing and decomposing

 

 

Evidence Outcomes: 

  1. Build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes. (CCSS: 1.G.1)

 

  • The teacher will review shapes previously introduced three dimensional shapes (sphere, cube, cone, pyramid).   Students will also discuss what makes an object 3D and the vocabulary (side, edge, etc.)
  • Students will think about the geometric objects found in their everyday world. (ex. our school is a cube)  
  • Students will narrow their brainstorming to their community.  The teacher will encourage students to think of shapes (school, grocery store, mail boxes, etc.).  The teacher will also write the list on the board.
  • Students will work in collaborative pairs. They will decide which object in their community they would like to build.  
  • Using the fab@school design software, each pair will construct a 3D object in 2D.  They will be encouraged to use the geometry vocabulary when planning and designing.   
  • The class will then construct a mini town with their designs.  When presenting, they will describe the shape and geometric features of their design.

 


Other Ideas for the Classroom:

 

  • Design packaging for a certain product.
  • Create a wind turbine.
  • Create an animal habitat.
  • Design a piece of furniture.
  • Make a model of a famous piece of architecture (Eiffel Tower, Washington Monument)

 

Purchase Information:

 

http://www.aspexsoftware.com/desktop_engineering.htm

 

Resources:

 

Fab@School Design

 http://fablevisionlearning.com/fabatschool/

 

Curry School of Education

http://curry.virginia.edu/articles/curry-takes-engineering-projects-into-local-elementary-classrooms 

 

 

 

 

 

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