3D printing curriculum for schools and education by learnbylayers.

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3D printing curriculum for schools

Learnbylayers is the solution to teaching 3D printing in the classroom. Trusted by schools around the world, our curriculum will teach your students 3D printing. From beginner tutorials, to intermediate and advanced lessons, learnbylayers teaches students to become confident in 3D Printing. The curriculum is fully editable with downloadable teaching and learning resources such as power points, printable worksheets, homework tasks, answer sheets, design challenges, video tutorials and final assessments.
All lesson packs come with example files to 3D print to support the delivery of the curriculum. Also design challenges are differentiated to allow all students to make progress in class regardless of their ability. As part of the lesson resources, students will learn 3D CAD and how to create their own models to 3D print using TinkerCAD and Fusion360 (both free for education). There are over 280 resources published as part of the curriculum that allow the lessons to be taught straight 'out of the box'. Minimal planning is needed and lessons can be used with any brand of 3D printer.

Beginners Lesson 1 – An introduction to 3D printing

Intended age range 11 – 13

Hit the ground running with this introduction lesson to 3D Printing. No planning needed, as all resources are included to get teaching straight away….

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Beginners Lesson 2 – The 3D Printing Process

In this lesson ‘the 3D printing process’ students will learn the key concepts of how 3D printers work based upon X, Y and Z coordinates. They will also learn…

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Beginners Lesson 3 – How to create 3D models

In this lesson students will learn how to create 3D models to Print using free CAD modelling software TinkerCAD. Your classes will learn how to create a basic 3D…

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Beginners Lesson 4 – Developing modelling skills

This lesson builds on the skills learnt in lesson 3 and helps prepare students for design challenge in lesson 5. In this lesson your classes will learn how to…

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Beginners Lesson 5 – Design Challenge

Lesson 5 – The design challenge, builds upon the basic CAD skills that students learnt in lesson 3 and 4 and allows them to apply these skills to a…

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Beginners Lesson 6 – Basic materials and slicing

Age range recommended 11 – 13

In this lesson your classes will be taught about the main materials that are used in 3D Printing and the advantages and disadvantages of…

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Beginners Lesson 7 – Assessment

Recommended age range 11 – 13

This lesson will test students on everything that they have learnt in the last 6 lessons. There are 20 questions of varying difficultly that…

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Intermediate Lesson 8 – 3D Printing in our society

Intermediate 3D Printing

Recommended age range 14 – 16

In this lesson students will learn about how 3D Printing is being used in society to benefit people’s lives. Topics covered include…

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Shanice Welsh

Design teacher Sale High School

“Lessons are engaging and simple to follow, especially for teachers who have no experience in 3D printing! Lessons can be adapted and edited but in my opinion, they don’t need to be! Everything is already included and ready to go as they include detailed lesson plans and all the basics of an outstanding lesson (observation ready!)”

John Donnelly

Head of Technology, St James C of E school, Founder of www.dtresources.co.uk

“I’m no novice to teaching CAD or 3D printing, but the quality of the resources available from learnbylayers is second to none. I have used the lesson plans and resources in lesson observations with fantastic results, the videos included in the lessons really enable pupils to work at the own pace which leads to a perfect differentiated lesson.”

Dave Bauser

DT Teacher, author of 'TopBrumD&T' and DATA consultant

“User friendly, easy to follow, clearly explained and good links. Ideal resource to support your delivery. As a relative newcomer to 3D Printing this has certainly helped my understanding.”

Paul Bowyer

Head of Technology. Sandbach Boys School

“The information sets the foundations of 3D Printing and explains its important and ever increasing role in society. The easy to follow lessons allow pupils to develop their understanding of 3D Printing and experience the science behind it and the application.”

Dwain Brandy

Design and Technology teacher at Oasis Academy, Media city UK

“This is an essential 3D printing resource for the future of Design Technology. I use the scheme of learnings within my long term planning for Design and Technology. This has been essential for adapting with the new Design Technology GCSE. The individual lessons are simple to follow and ideal for beginners and experienced practitioners.”

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