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Fab-in-a-Box 3D Printed Dice: Exploration

Design your own 3D-printable dice! Use CAD (computer-aided design) software to build out an idea in three dimensions. Choose your dice geometry and decide what to put on each face.…

December 3, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Spinning Tops: Exploration

Give engineering a spin: experiment with physics while designing and fabricating a custom spinning top! Get hands-on with energy, force, and momentum as you experiment with different 3D-printed designs. How…

December 3, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Botanical Press: Exploration

Combine art and science: customize and fabricate a botanical press that can be used over and over again to preserve leaves and flowers for crafts or dissection.

December 3, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Stamps: Exploration

Students will embark on a creative journey to design a personal logo that reflects their (or a brand’s) unique identities and values. By combining graphic design principles with self-reflection, they…

December 3, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Invention Kits: Exploration

Create your very own invention kit! Design and laser cut a set of two-dimensional shapes that can slot together to make three-dimensional structures.   Finished kits can be used for…

December 2, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Paper Pop-Up Cards: Exploration

Explore math, form, and function while engineering pop-up paper art. Use a vinyl cutter to make two-dimensional artwork “pop!” Add score and cut lines to cardstock to fabricate custom, folding…

December 2, 2024
Fab-in-a-Box Stickers: Exploration

Learners will apply shape and composition skills in digital 2D design using guided CAD software. They will deepen their understanding of graphic design principles, balance, symmetry, and negative space, and…

December 2, 2024
ScaleSpace – Visualizing the Solar System Through 3D Models

In this lesson, students will explore the vastness and diversity of the solar system by creating scale models of planets, moons, and other celestial objects. Using astronomical data, they will…

December 2, 2024
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SHAPE BUILDERS

This lesson is designed to help students deepen their understanding of geometry – shapes and their attributes.     Prior to the lesson, students must have been introduced to the vocabulary…

December 1, 2024
Chemical Bonding Game

Driving Question: How can we, as game designers, create a playable board or computer (Chromebook) game that teaches players the properties, behavior, and structure of ionic and covalent compounds?  …

November 26, 2024
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Human Eye Model: A Hands-On Investigation of the Functions of the Parts of the Eye

This lesson provides students a constructivist approach to learning the functions of the different parts of the human eye. Leading up to this lesson, students learned the properties of light…

November 21, 2024
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Touch Sensor Light

Students develop foundational knowledge and skills in basic electronics, exploring how voltage and electronic components interact to control a system and how energy manipulation impacts these components. Leveraging this understanding,…

November 20, 2024