Make a Bathroom Pass

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Students team up to design and print custom bathroom passes tailored to each class in the school, fostering an interdisciplinary assignment that students can create and contribute to their community. Standards: CCSS Overview and Background Students join forces to design and print personalized bathroom passes for each class in the school. Students have a clear purpose - adding value to their community and designing what the paired teacher or staff member requests - exceeding just earning a grade. As they work, students develop essential skills, combining content-specific knowledge with collaboration expertise. Extension: Have students create hooks for the bathrooms to hold the passes and modify the prints accordingly. You can print a hand hook for the pass to rest across the hand or include a hole for it to hang on a finger. Provide students with Thingiverse files to import and scale or have them start from scratch, depending on the desired level of challenge. Lesson Plan and Activity Project: Design A Bathroom Pass Project Overview: Students collaborate to design and print bathroom passes tailored to each class in the school. • Extension: Have students create hooks for the bathrooms to hold the passes and modify the prints accordingly. You can print a hand hook for the pass to rest across the hand or include a hole for it to hang on a finger. • Provide students with Thingiverse files to import and scale or have them start from scratch, depending on the desired level of challenge. • Example: Jewelry Hand Coat Hook Student Grouping: Identify each student's strengths and weaknesses in their classes and pair them up accordingly. Students can create passes specific to the topic they're working on in that class at that moment. Step 1: Gather quotes or pictures that relate a trip to the bathroom with the current class material. Example: For an English class, a pass might say "To pee or not to pee, that is the question." Step 2: Prepare for your meeting with the assigned teacher by having the following ready: a. An overview of how the 3D printing process works and a sample of what you've made - ensure the teacher understands what can be printed and has realistic expectations. b. A few CAD mockups to showcase, along with relevant pictures or quotes. c. A list of questions for the assigned teacher - such as desired size, shape, colors? Step 3: Create your digital design and send it to your teacher for approval. Establish student restrictions, like maximum or minimum volume and surface area. Step 4: Print the design. Step 5: Adjust anything and complete a second print if needed. Step 6: Upload to Thingiverse and tag with print time, final print photos, etc. Step 7: Present to your assigned teacher. Duration of Lesson About 7 - 10 class periods (45 minutes each) Rubric and Assessment STANDARDS 6th Grade Math: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.