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 create an account on SCOPESdf.org (opens new window) and post your lesson, with photos and files on this shared site.

*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)