Do your students love to build?
TinkerCad is a fun, innovative and engaging way to allow your students imaginations to come to life. It was first founded in 2011, bringing the first browser-based 3D design platform to the world.
TinkerCad allows your students to create their ideas into 3D images which in the upper years they can then print them off if they have access to a 3D printer. If not, they can save their creations and create a design portfolio for all the objects they have made. This is an exciting way to get all students involved and they are only limited by their imaginations.
Subject: Technologies
Year Level: 3 – 6
Strand: Design Technologies
Sub Strands:
Knowledge and Understanding
Processes and Production Skills
Curriculum Links (specific to TinkerCad)
Develop and communicate ideas using labelled drawings and appropriate technical terms
Use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions
Suitability and safe practice when using materials, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013)
Use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions
Develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using annotated drawings and appropriate technical terms
Cross Curriculum Priorities:
Sustainability
General Capabilities:
Literacy
Numeracy
Information and Communication Technology Capability
Critical and Creative Thinking
Personal and Social Capability
Further Links:
Youtube introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCaenAGeK_Q
By Jarrod Kuah