Statement of Inquiry: 3D Printing Systems Allows for the Ability to Invent and Innovate to produce personal or cultural products.

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Key Concept: Systems

Related Concept: Design (Form and Function)

Global Context: Personal and Cultural Expression

Major Skills explored in this unit:  3D Modelling using Autodesk Meshmixer (CAD), 3D Printing (CAM), Design cycle 

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About the Unit: Students are given a brief that they are "designers for a company that creates and sell merchandise for bobble-head pens for consumers. The students had a choice of choosing from one of three themes (African, Animal or Monster) Some students were doing an IDU with English Literature and had to choose the African theme as this was related to the book they were studying in English. The students are to design the head of the pen in a 3D software and then 3D Print it a prototype. The body is to be designed by hand using modelling clay. then put them together to create a prototype of the pen design.