STEAMCraft Your Classroom

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This lesson plan is part of a larger project that incorporates multiple subjects, including math, design, and technology. The project involves students designing an ideal classroom using Minecraft, measuring furniture in the current classroom, creating a scale model in Minecraft, exporting the model as a .stl file, and printing it out. Here are some key points from the lesson plan: **Objectives:** * Students will be able to identify different types of polygons (triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes) * Students will be able to understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and addition * Students will be able to measure areas by counting unit squares * Students will be able to recognize area as additive and find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles * Students will be able to solve real-world problems involving perimeters of polygons **Duration:** * The duration of the lesson can be expanded or contracted depending on what level of detail educators wish to map out the classroom. **Preparation:** * Educators must prepare by choosing a scale for the Minecraft model, deciding which tools to use for measuring furniture, and determining how much math addition and multiplication/division is desired. * Students will measure all the furniture in the classroom to be modeled and make conversions to determine the proper scale in Minecraft. **Procedure:** 1. Design an ideal classroom using Minecraft 2. Measure furniture in the current classroom 3. Create a scale model in Minecraft 4. Export the model as a .stl file 5. Print out the model **Assessment:** * Students will have a great model to show off at open house * If they designed a totally new idea for the classroom and everyone likes it, then it is time to REMAKE THE ROOM! **References:** * STEAMCraft Your School (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1725352) * Minecraft (https://minecraft.net/) * MCEdit (http://www.mcedit.net/) * PrintCraft (http://www.printcraft.org/)