Free 3D printing models for school
Today I present you a collection of free 3D printing models for school. You'll certainly be able to use some of these 15+ STL files to make the world a little more comprehensible.
Be it either for yourself.(You never stop learning)
Your kids.
Or your students. For sure!
Fractions were gladly taught with pies, etc. Here you will also find the cake of the future 😉
Have fun browsing, printing and spreading knowledge.
More cells and links up there = Better! 🙂
Mars Base Project 2017
The Mars Base Project is actually just the result of a student project, but could also serve well as a model in a series on astronomy. This project – as the name suggests – was about designing a Mars base. Groups of 2 students each were formed and they were not supposed to just design anything. They did research beforehand and then implemented their ideas in Tinkercad. (You can find some information about Tinkercad at 3D Printer Software)
I have always liked projects of this kind, but with my writing I could not be so convincing on all the posters. Nowadays, of course, you do it in 3D and with easy-to-use software like Tinkercad, almost anyone can turn their ideas into reality.
Download: Mars Base Project 2017
Planetary gear demonstrator
With this planetary gear, you can easily explain why this gear is called that and also how gears work together.
Download: Planetary Gear Demonstrator
Levitator
With this levitator you can levitate magnets and also iron balls. Do you have any magnets left over from the“Magnetic 3D Print Heating Bed” project? Then use it here!
Download: Levitator
Center of mass example with the Balancing Bird
Teach your students about the principle of center of mass with this Balancing Bird. What looks like magic at first glance you can certainly explain more simply with a few sentences and Balancing Birds.
Why not take the entire class to the computer science room and use Tinkercad to recreate a simple variant?
This way you can check if your students have understood you.
Download: Center of mass example with the Balancing Bird
Miracles of Human Vision – (Eye, Midbrain and Visual Cortex)
Gone are the days when we simply used overhead projectors or beamers to give dull presentations in biology.
Does anyone ever listen?
With this “eye set” you will rock the next presentation and impress your teacher as a student or your students as a teacher.
Download: Miracles of human vision
SpaceX Falcon 9 Model
The Falcon 9s are the rockets that return after a mission and soft-land on the designated landing sites (more and more often correctly lately). Are you a fan of astronomy or even progress, this model is certainly good for showing that too. For me, the Falcon 9 model with the following kit is on the “To Print” list and is actually just waiting to be started.
Download: SpaceX Falcon 9 model
SpaceX Falcon Heavy and Crew Dragon Expansion Kit
If you are an even bigger fan and were as impressed with the Falcon Heavy launch as I was, you actually have to print this expansion as well. With the Core and the Crew Dragon Expansion Kit you almost have the start scene from the live stream. But then it wasn't the Dragon for a crew, but the capsule with the red Tesla Roadster, which is now cruising around up there.
I don't know to what extent these topics are even discussed in today's school day. If still not enough, I hope some physics teachers will change this a bit.
Why not start a series on this and discuss gravity, force, etc. using real examples?
Download: SpaceX Falcon Heavy and Crew Dragon Expansion Kit
4 cylinder engine, transmission and transfer case (functional model)
Description
Download: 4 Cylinder Engine, Transmission and Transfer Case (Functional Model)
3D Periods System
Okay, I admit: I loved chemistry rather less. Science was always my thing, but I just didn't connect with chemistry….
Now that you've laughed yourself silly, I'd like to tell you something about this 3D period system. It just looks great and will please any chemist.
Whether you put this in your chemistry room or just want to give your teacher a nice gift, you're sure to succeed in generating plus points with the periodic table.
Download: 3D Periods System
Backbone stand
“Something for our politicians…”
One would certainly like to say…
But certainly also suitable for the biologist among us. The first link leads only to the stand and the others then to the individual areas of the spine (shown here in color). I personally find the color combination very successful.
Download: Backbone stand
Cervical vertebrae
Thoracic
Lumbar
Sacrum
Caffeine molecule
Now I would like to say something clever about coffee, if I wasn't already so overtired…
This may be more of a gag, but you'll learn something here, too.
How often do we use something in life and somehow know purely nothing about it?
Not even the structure of caffeine is still familiar to us…Let's change this! Today!
But first a coffee break!
Download: Caffeine molecule
Ireland in 3D
This 3D printed topographic map of Ireland serves as an example of how geography lessons can be presented in a tangible way.
Down with the atlases!
I chose Ireland because it is a very beautiful country with super nice people. I can certainly give you some travel tips if you ask nicely 🙂
Otherwise, such a map is only really revealing when it is printed or painted in several colors.
If you are interested in topographic 3D maps, I can write a How-To.
Download: Ireland in 3D
Layers of the earth
If you know anyone who claims the earth is a disc….
Then give him or her this great model of the Earth and go into a little more detail about its construction.
What else do you think could be shown in this way?
There are certainly many possible applications in every area of education.
Download: Layers of the earth
Sun system as 3D print model
In almost every American movie or series, there is a little girl or boy with a “model solar system” project. Then someone on the school bus sits on it and everything is broken.
Of course, this can also happen with this model. Depending on what 3D printing material you use for this, it could also be painful to sit on. The model is also available with Dutch text as shown in the picture. Not only will you learn about the solar system, but you'll also learn a little about the language of our neighbors.
Win-Win Situation!
Download: Sun system 3D Print Model
Colors, shapes and fractions
Yes. Fractions are not necessarily easy to learn.
I've had tutoring students who only understood after several different ways of presenting it. This one is a very good variation, which can also be used to learn colors and shapes.
Download: Colors, shapes and fractions
Cakes for fractions
Fractions Learning Level II – These pies can be printed so then multiple fractions can be represented. It is possible to show 1/2+1/4+1/4 or also 1/3+1/3+1/3…
So step by step more and more difficult fractions can be represented and if you have several pies, also larger numbers than 1 went.
There are certainly no limits to the imagination here.
What I particularly like is that the pieces are all labeled as well.
Someone was thinking along with you.
Download: Cakes for fractions
Angle learning in 3D
Besides fractions, geometry is another thing that not everyone understands right the first time. Back then, you had to use a set square and draw by hand to show different angles.
Today, this can be done with simple tools from the 3D printer. If you also separate the individual parts by color, nothing should go wrong.
Download: Angle Learning in 3D
If you liked this post and even printed some of the above models, I would appreciate a message and also photos 🙂
Have fun printing!
