PrintLab Classroom - 3D Printing Projects & Training

PrintLab Classroom is an online platform that provides 3D printing lesson plans and certified training courses for educators and fully resourced projects for students. The approach taken is to draw inspiration from the innovative uses of 3D printing in industry and bring these through to education. The curriculum is aligned to a range of standards across different subject areas and challenges students to design assistive technology, reusable packaging prototypes, hands-free virus solutions and more.

PrintLab’s online toolkit allows you to pick and choose from 45+ projects to build your own pathway for students - saving you the time and stress of creating your own lesson plans. Projects can be filtered and selected by Theme, Subject Area, Difficulty or Duration. Each project is equipped with downloadable teaching materials such as presentations, workbooks and rubrics, as well as explainer videos and 3D design tutorials hosted on a student portal for a blended learning experience.

The PrintLab mission is to upskill and support educators with everything they need to teach 3D printing in meaningful ways, so they can focus on facilitating young people in becoming creative problem-solvers with empathy for the world around us.

PrintLab Classroom Certification Course for Teachers The PrintLab Certification Course is the starting point for teachers wanting or requiring professional development training. The certification course empowers teachers, helping them become proficient and confident in teaching 3D printing curriculum, by giving them the necessary 3D design and 3D printing skills. The 5 hour self-paced online course covers everything from the 3D printing industry and process through to CAD techniques and design thinking. At the end of the course are 3 assessments and once passed, teachers will become PrintLab Certified Educators.

What Students will Learn with PrintLab Classroom PrintLab offers great variety between the 45+ available projects and are designed to educate, inspire and give a great learning experience. Learn to design and create 3D objects in TinkerCad. Learn to take 3D models, put them through slicing software and send it to the printer to create the final product. Learn about making assistive every day tools. Stay safe with some pandemic products. Learn to reuse plastic waste and upcycle it in to something new. Redesign disposable plastic products and print something that can keep being used. Learn about 3D scanning and how it works. Learn about architecture.

PrintLab 3D Printing Projects

PrintLab Classroom 1 Year Teacher License

For individual teachers, home-schooling and parents. Upon purchasing this product, you will be sent a PDF document with teacher/student portal login details and instructions.

• 1 x teacher portal account (45+ fully-resourced lesson plans with new content each month)
• 1 x seat to The PrintLab Certification Course for teachers (5-hour online course)
• 30 x student portal users (access code is provided that allows 30 users to use PrintLab’s student portal at the same time. The student portal hosts explainer videos, CAD tutorials etc required for the lesson plans)

PrintLab Classroom 1 Year School License

For schools, libraries and makerspaces. Upon purchasing this product, you will be sent a PDF document with teacher/student portal login details and instructions.

• 10 x teacher portal accounts (45+ fully-resourced lesson plans with new content each month)
• 10 x seats to The PrintLab Certification Course for teachers (5-hour online course)
• 200 x student portal users (access code is provided that allows 200 users to use PrintLab’s student portal at the same time. The student portal hosts explainer videos, CAD tutorials etc required for the lesson plans)