"3D printing will be bigger than the Web." Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine This book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design software, and even advice for purchasing your first 3D printer. The real power of the book comes from a variety of teacher-tested step-by-step classroom projects. Eighteen fun and challenging projects explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, along with forays into the visual arts and design. The Invent To Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom is written in an engaging style by authors with decades of educational technology experience.

Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs. Take your existing programs to the next level with Mastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab. Organized in a way that is readable and easy to understand, this book is your guide to the many technology options available now in both software and hardware, as well as a compendium of practical use cases and a discussion of how to create experiences that will align with curriculum standards. You'll examine the whole range of working with a 3D printer, from purchase decision to curriculum design. Finally this book points you forward to the digital-fabrication future current students will face, discussing how key skills can be taught as cost-effectively as possible. What You’ll LearnDiscover what is really involved with using a 3D printer in a classroom, library, lab, or public space Review use cases of 3D printers designed to enhance student learning and to make practical parts, from elementary school through university research lab Look at career-planning directions in the emerging digital fabrication arena Work with updated tools, hardware, and software for 3D printingWho This Book Is For Educators of all levels, both formal (classroom) and informal (after-school programs, libraries, museums).

Are you thinking about getting a 3D printer for your school? Are you having trouble getting your school's 3D printer to work correctly? Are you looking for examples of easy projects and resources to use in your classroom? You'll find the answers in: 3D Printing Made Easy: Classroom Edition In this special classroom edition, written for teachers, by a teacher, you'll understand how the basic 3D printing process works and see real-world lesson examples for your classroom. You'll also learn about: What to look for when buying a 3D printer Everyday problems that can be solved using 3D printing How to troubleshoot prints that don't turn out correctly Considerations when using your 3D printer with student submissions 3D printer software options, including settings you need to be successful with your 3D prints 3D printing doesn't have to be complicated. Learn how to use 3D printers quickly and easily in this guide that's written in a friendly conversational style. You'll be a 3D printing pro in no time after reading 3D Printing Made Easy: Classroom Edition!

Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs. Take your existing programs to the next level with Mastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab. Organized in a way that is readable and easy to understand, this book is your guide to the many technology options available now in both software and hardware, as well as a compendium of practical use cases and a discussion of how to create experiences that will align with curriculum standards. You'll examine the whole range of working with a 3D printer, from purchase decision to curriculum design. Finally this book points you forward to the digital-fabrication future current students will face, discussing how key skills can be taught as cost-effectively as possible.

This book is aimed at an audience consisting of two kinds of readers. The first is people who are curious about 3D printing and want more information without necessarily getting deeply into it. For this audience, the first two chapters will be of greatest interest. They provide an overview of 3D print technology. They also serve to take the confusion out of the jargon and make sense out of such shortcuts as SLA, FFM, FFF, FDM, DLP, LOM, SLM, DMLS, SLS, EBM, EBAM, CAD and others. They describe the basic processes, the materials used and the application of the technology in industry, space, medicine, housing, clothing and consumer-oriented products such as jewelry, video game figures, footwear, tools and what must now seem like an infinity of bunnies, eagles and busts of Star Wars and Star Trek figurines in a dazzling array of colors. This book also addresses the needs of people new to the field who require information in a hurry. Chapter 3 serves as a guide to generating a 3D model by reviewing scanning methodology, the various types of software available to create a model and the steps needed to insure a useful printed object from the 3D model. The chapter has numerous references which, together with the information in the text, will help one find quickly any additional information available on the internet. Keywords: 3D Printing, 3D Software, 3D Hardware, Printing Materials, Scanning, 3D Modeling, Jewelry, Medicine, Housing, Space

The MakerBot Educators Guidebook is the most comprehensive blueprint for introducing 3D printing into the classroom. MakerBot collaborated with the largest community of 3D printing educators to create a crash course 3D printing, 9 classroom-ready 3D printing projects, and more!

Are you thinking about getting a 3D printer? Are you having trouble getting your 3D printer to work correctly? Are you looking for examples of easy projects and resources to use? You'll find the answers in: 3D Printing Made Easy In 3D Printing Made Easy, you'll learn about: What to look for when buying a 3D printer Everyday problems that can be solved using 3D printing How to troubleshoot prints that don't turn out correctly Different ways to design your own 3D printable objects 3D printer software options, including settings you need to be successful with your 3D prints 3D printing doesn't have to be complicated. Learn how to use 3D printers quickly and easily in this guide that's written in a friendly conversational style. You'll be a 3D printing pro in no time after reading 3D Printing Made Easy!