# Field Activity
# Digital Fabrication FOR kids
# Description
For this Field Activity, you will design a lesson plan for a subject that you teach. Your lesson plan must include a physical teaching aid: object, model, or manipulative that you design and fabricate for use in the classroom. The subject and learning outcomes of the lesson should be non-technical. NOTE: For this lesson plan, students will not use the design or fabrication technologies of the lab, instead they will interact with the physical teaching aid that you designed and created.
*You will create and build a physical teaching aid for a subject that you teach.
*You will create a detailed lesson plan for using the object with your students in the classroom.
*You will post your lesson in SCOPESdf.org (opens new window) including photos and design files.
*You need to include a final reflection on your experience answering at least the following reflection questions:
- Could you have done this activity without the teaching aid you have fabricated?How do you think digital fabrication improves the activity vs utilizing traditional methods? What is the extra value?
- What are some challenges you expect when you do the activity with your class?
- What did you learn during the fabrication process?
Here are some inspirational sites to look at for digital fabrication for kids:
- CAD Library.org (opens new window): digital files for K-12 teaching with build instructions and education packets
- Math Happens Foundation (opens new window): ideas for digitally fabricated math manipulatives that you can make in a makerspace.
- GOSH: Gathering of Open Source Hardware (opens new window): These projects are quite a bit more detailed but great inspiration for science-based mechanisms that you can build for your classroom (or for your lab!)
- Instructables (opens new window): This is a listing of laser cut projects for use in K-12 classrooms.
# Instructions and Assessment
Step by Step Instructions for the Field Activity (with the assessment rubric) are Here (opens new window)
Step by Step Instructions on How to setup a SCOPESdf account are here. (opens new window)