Tinkercad
Hello 5th Graders!
Today's Learning Target is...
I can document my learning by creating and
maintaining a digital portfolio.
(Creative Communicator 6.c.)
I can add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to share knowledge and collaborate with others.
(ELA: SL.3.5)
Today's apps / programs are: Seesaw app. / Mrs. Santiago's Tech Website
Today's Learning Target is...
I can document my learning by creating and
maintaining a digital portfolio.
(Creative Communicator 6.c.)
I can add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to share knowledge and collaborate with others.
(ELA: SL.3.5)
Today's apps / programs are: Seesaw app. / Mrs. Santiago's Tech Website
Tinkercad is a fun, easy to use, web-based 3D design application. You don’t need any design experience - Tinkercad can be used by anyone. In fact, kids are Tinkercad’s target audience. The cool thing about Tinkercad is that it’s ideal for creating things to be printed. No, not printed on a boring and flat 2D sheet of paper! Tinkercad is made for producing actual objects: you can easily send your model to a 3D printer and end up with an actual object you can hold in your hand.
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Tinkercad Navigation Race
Why are the tools of navigation so important in a 3D modeling environment? How can we be sure that an object is where we want it to be? After working through this race you will learn to navigate (orbit, pan, zoom), place and resize primitives, use the workspace and ruler, make a hole, group, and subtract one primitive from another.
Step 1: Have a Look Around
1. Tinkercad’s website is (as you’d expect) www.tinkercad.com. All work is done and saved on the web; there’s nothing to install onto your computer. You don’t need a Tinkercad account to design things, but it’s free to set one up, and with an account you get to save your work.
At the top of the Tinkercad site are three main links: Discover, Learn, and Design.
2. Click the Discover link, which takes you to a page of interesting models you can peruse. At the top of this page you can also search for something specific, check out the newest models, see what models the Tinkercad staff loves, and sometimes you can even see special seasonal models (such as stuff for Father’s Day).
3. If a model you see strikes your fancy and you want to see more, click on it to see a larger view. You can see a still view of the model, or view it in 3D so that you can turn it around and zoom in and out. The Copy and Tinker button lets you open it in Tinkercad so you can see how it was made; you can make any changes you like. And of course, you can send any Tinkercad model to a 3D printed, even if you didn’t make it yourself!
Your browser’s Back button will take you back to Tinkercad’s main pages, when you’re finished tinkering.
4. The Learn link at the top of the main page takes you to a series of lessons. These are fun and short guided projects in which you follow directions in Tinkercad to create, move, and modify shapes. Try a few out.