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Classroom-friendly print materials for 3D printing

Now featuring 20 vibrant colors, your students can take their 3D printing projects to a whole new level of imagination and innovation.

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Rainbow series

Explore our rainbow of possibilities! Bring your lessons to life with MakerBot’s new filament colors! From designing space shuttles to crafting school decor, our filaments inspire creativity at every turn.

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Metallic Colors Series

Imagine your classroom filled with projects bursting in school colors or adorned with metallic finishes. MakerBot’s new filament colors are designed to enhance school spirit and project customization.

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MakerBot PLA

Safe for the classroom or at home, MakerBot PLA is a corn-based plastic that is non-toxic and easy-to-print with minimal warping or curling.

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Build a cell city

Build a cell city
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Sketch series
Build a cell city
Grade level
7th, 8th, 9th
Build a cell city
Difficulty
Medium

Identify the organelles that make up an animal cell and their functions then describe how their organelles are similar to how a city functions by designing and printing a 3D model of each organelle.

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DNA manipulative

DNA manipulative
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Sketch series
DNA manipulative
Grade level
6th, 7th, 8th
DNA manipulative
Difficulty
Intermediate

Students can build a model of DNA with a given sequence of chemical bases and demonstrate the process of DNA transcription.

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DNA manipulative

Roman aqueduct

Roman aqueduct
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Sketch Large
Roman aqueduct
Grade level
4th, 5th, 6th
Roman aqueduct
Difficulty
Easy

Have students hypothesize what an aqueduct structure was used for. Next, discuss methods of moving freshwater from a source to different locations in a city. With 3D printing, allow students to design and print their own aqueducts that can move water from one location to another.

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Roman aqueduct

MakerBot Tough PLA

MakerBot Tough PLA Filament is engineered for durable, strong, and dimensionally accurate 3D printed parts.

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Snap-Together Robohand

Snap-Together Robohand
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Sketch Large
Snap-Together Robohand
Grade level
10th, 11th, 12th
Snap-Together Robohand
Difficulty
Easy

See how 3D printing can help people all around the world by printing and building a snap-together version of the Robohand and develop a better understanding of the mechanics behind the robohand and how the robohand itself can expand and contract using one’s wrist.

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Planetary Gear System

Planetary Gear System
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Sketch series
Planetary Gear System
Grade level
7-12th
Planetary Gear System
Difficulty
Advanced

After completing a unit on how different combinations of gears work together to increase torque, students are tasked with identifying the necessary parts for a planetary gear system and designing their version of this type of gear train using 3D-printed parts.

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Catapults - Potential energy

Catapults - Potential energy
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Sketch series
Catapults - Potential energy
Grade level
6th, 7th, 8th
Catapults - Potential energy
Difficulty
Medium

Students can design and print their own catapults and test how the potential energy changes with different tension sources.

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