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Thingiverse will be a great resource in addition to Tinkercad. It has over 300 free lesson ideas for 3D modeling. If struggling to come up with a project, this could be useful for finding other lesson ideas or inspiration. The lesson plans lay out the steps for designing. There are .stl files. There are also video tutorials.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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Download files and build them with your 3D printer, laser cutter, or CNC. Thingiverse is a universe of things.

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https://www.selfcad.com/

I started to look into SelfCAD after spending time with the Tinkercad website.  The idea of creating designs from start to finish is exciting and the websites have tools that are easy in theory to use for the novice to the advanced.

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Makers Powerful and Comprehensive 3D Sketching and 3D Modeling Tools 3D Printing Create, Manifold, Magically Fix, Slice Models for FDM and DLP Printers Creative Hobby or Business Artistic Drawing and Sculpting Tools Adjustability / Flexibility Import, Export, Convert and Edit from Images, SVG and 40 + 3D File Formats Marketplace Download from 45k + MMF 3D Printable Objects Library Education Easy to Learn Software for Classroom Socializing Create and Share Your work

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"Designed for all ages (K-12), Morphi combines 3D object creation, animation, storytelling, and augmented reality into one low cost package. Morphi is available for Windows, Macs and iPads and does not need an Internet connection to create or save projects." If they can deliver all this fun, this is my choice. It's not just 3D object creation, and because of that I believe it can engage a wider academic and cognitive range of students.

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Simple, powerful 3D Modeling + 3D Design app on iPad, Mac and Windows to make 3D models for NFTs, 3D Printing, AR, VR, Animation, Visualization + more. All skill levels. Easiest best 3D modeling app for iPad. Easiest best AR app for iPhone. Easy best 3D Printing app for iPad. Amazing Augmented Reali

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https://www.tinkercad.com/With all the resources available, I feel that Tinkercad would be the easiest for me and my students to use. I feel that it is very easy to use to create digital designs. Many of the other resources are more complex and are for advanced learners and teachers. I appreciate that lessons on TinkerCad  start with the basics before moving onto more complex modeling techniques. Tinkercad would be fun for my 4th graders to use, especially since we are beginners in the whole 3D printing process. I would first have my students complete the tutorials to become familair with TinkerCad before starting any projects.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects Mrs. Rouse's 

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Mrs. Rouse's Post The resource that is the most helpful for my kindergarten class is Tinkercard. This resource allows students and families to review lessons step by step with lessons provided. The instructions provided are explicit and will allow students to use visuals and pictures to help guide their learning. This resource will also help my  ESOL learners, and help provide in depth lessons for parents (that may need additional support or guidance). As an educator, I also find the website to be extremely helpful for creating and designing lessons.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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I like Tinkercad for my 4th grade ELLs. The tutorials and lessons are listed step-by-step and have pictures showing what should be happening at most steps. I can easily copy and paste the step-by-step instructions, then translate them into other languages for students. At this age, my students are pretty good at learning to work independently once they are confident in a task so the Tinkercad tutorials are great for helping students build capacity. Similar to the workflow of our 3D class, I would have students work through a tutorial/test lesson in groups, then try one independently. Students who excel at using Tinkercad could then become peer experts, helping other students who are struggling. Using Tinkercad also lends itself to some great vocab learning for ELLs (shape vocab, plane, bigger, smaller, measure, align, front, middle, side, back, etc.)

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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Thingiverse has a variety of ready-made 3D objects in its library. Students and teachers can search the library for items that best suit their needs and download the associated files. The projects also list printer settings and provides videos on how an object was created. When working with beginning students and staff, I thing this would be the best free resource.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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I like to use resources on Tinkercad because this website not only provides free access for students but also has lesson plans to inspire teachers. I now work with fourth-grade students, and my school does not have a 3D printer. However, the Tinkercad website has a large number of resources, projects, and visual operation platforms, so that my students will be able to turn 2D imagination in their minds into 3D designs. That’s super cool, both open students' and teachers' eyes.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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 Lauren Katauskas:  https://www.tinkercad.com/            I think that Tinkercad will work best for my middle school students.  This is a skill that is learn from trial and error and supports and can be incorporated in all subject areas.  Tinkercad is an interesting way to manipulate in order to learn dimensions and degrees! This program is beginner friendly and offers tutorials and instructional  that can be paused and replayed based on student need. and lots of instructional videos. Model examples are saved on the website, so students are able to work on their projects anywhere internet is accessible. 

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 Lauren Katauskas:  https://www.tinkercad.com/            I think that Tinkercad will work best for my middle school students.  This is a skill that is learn from trial and error and supports and can be incorporated in all subject areas.  Tinkercad is an interesting way to manipulate in order to learn dimensions and degrees! This program is beginner friendly and offers tutorials and instructional  that can be paused and replayed based on student need. and lots of instructional videos. Model examples are saved on the website, so students are able to work on their projects anywhere internet is accessible. 

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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Using Tinkercad with my first graders will I think will be the best for my babies! I think that the videos will help my students (and myself) to be more comfortable with understanding the platform. I would use it to increase engagement and creativity during the Wit and Wisdom block.

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Learn how to design and print in 3D, code, and create circuits using our free, easy-to-use app Tinkercad.

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https://www.thingiverse.com/

I am a Physical Education and Health teacher at an early elementary school. I currently teach grades PreK-2. I would use the 3d Printing project with my 2nd graders who are a little more high functioning and willing to take some risk. This site would be great because those scholars who are creative can use it for ideas and for those who are less creative they can find the product in the universe. I am one who is less creative but is always willing to explore and take risk.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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Download files and build them with your 3D printer, laser cutter, or CNC. Thingiverse is a universe of things.

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I worked with 3rd grade students. Understanding the 3D relationship might still be challenging for the students in the beginning.
I love the website of cgtrader because they have plenty of resources of design examples. The students will be motivated when they found so many beautiful design created by other people, and they might hopefully contribute to the library one day.

The link for the website is
https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models

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I work with 1st grade students, so I primarily plan to have them work their designs through Tinkercad. However, I liked this additional tool because it has a bunch of great resources that are already created that work with a digital printer.
It would be useful for students to first understand how a digital printer works and the potential with their designs to inspire them to understand more of the why and how behind the designs that they create with tinkercad.

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STLFinder is a 3d model search engine able to quickly find the 3d models you are looking for either your 3d printings, games or graphical apps.

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https://www.tinkercad.com/

I teach first grade I'm new to 3D and I was learning to use Tinkercad I was surprised how easy the tutorials were to understand the videos. I did get a bit frustrated but I never really felt like giving up. I think with practice I could learn to use this site and teach my students. I also like that there's nothing to install and the students can work on their project at school and at home.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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I teach 7th & 8th grade science and envision my students using tinkercad in the classroom to design and create 3D models. I love that this platforms offers tutorials and lessons that allows students to learn how to us it and create. Having used it in this course, I feel comfortable to help students as they "productively struggle" to create. I also found it very intuitive and easy to practice with!

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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My foundation is science and mathematics. Teaching students with profound to moderate disabilities as a general educator is a challenge in itself and a guide to diversity with safety.
TinkerCad meets them at their level wherein they can follow step by step tutorials and pick up where they left off or, start over thus mastering each step of the process. This is one of the easiest and yet very challenging for my students. My students struggle with sequencing and coordination. This site will help them to focus (think) of the hand eye coordination in large and fine motor skills for sustained periods of time.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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  Hope Abney Kimbrow                      3D Models Search Engine/ Thingiverse

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  Hope Abney Kimbrow                      3D Models Search Engine/ Thingiverse

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I feel for the scholars in my school Thingiverse is the best 3D tool.  It serves to purposes.  First, for my scholars who lack creativity and imagination there are products already developed which they can print out.  Also their is a tutorial  on how to create products as well.

The 3D model search engine was also interesting. This would be the easiest way for scholars to get ideas for creating and printing. Scholars are already aware of google and how to use it. Students will be able to independently search for items without assistances.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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https://www.thingiverse.com/

I am a middle school educator and after reviewing the resources I felt that Thingiverse was the best option for my scholars. On this site scholars can create their own ideas or research what has already been created. This site gives the option for students to watch a video of how something was already created and they are able to mimic what they see. Or if they want to start their own creation and post it they can do that also. This is a great resource that will support my scholars and I am excited to actually try one of the projects.

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

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I think tinkercad would be a good resource to use with my first-grade students. Out of all the different platforms, I think tinkercad would be the easiest one for my students to use. One of the things that many of my students mentioned that they like to do is draw or build things. I often find my students using math manipulatives (cubes, chain links, blocks, etc...) to build with. I have to remind them that these are tools and not toys. Because I know this is something that many of them like to do, I would like to plan a project that would provide them the opportunity to be creative and build a 3D model that they can use as a manipulative to solve problems.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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3D Models Search Engine - Yobi3D

I am a special education teacher and my students often struggle with thinking abstractly so when students are asked to think about their project or idea with shapes, they may struggle. I think that using Google to search for items using the term 3D will help them look for shapes within the object. This will better support them with creating an object, independently or with little support.

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Type your name in the Title Box. After reviewing a few of the educator resources listed, post the link to a resource you think could be used in your classroom. Briefly explain how you would use it. Respond to another peer's post with a like or question.