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Lesson Idea 1: Build Leonardo da Vinci's Ornithopter
Domenico_D
Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 59 EDU
I'm with the PTC Academic team that is supporting educators using Onshape in their classrooms. Ever since PTC acquired Onshape at the end of 2019, we have been learning how to use this design platform and seeing how it could benefit educators in the classroom. As we became familiar with Onshape, we created lots of different models and designs as well as lesson ideas around these documents. We want to share these with you and going forward will be posting them here in the Instructor Community. Feel free to make copies of the documents and use them however you want for your class. We would appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share any of your own lessons that you find successful. Here's the first one!
Curriculum Idea: Learning about 3D Assemblies & Leonardo da Vinci
Topic area: Flying Machines/Invention
Description: This project involves having the students do some research about Leonardo da Vinci and his designs for flight. Following this, the students could complete Onshape’s learning module on assembly and then use the parts in the included model to assemble their own ornithopter.
There are relatively cheap kits that students can purchase to build at home as well. For a more challenging project, students could attempt to design Leonardo da Vinci’s other inventions in CAD.
Learning Objectives: After completing this project, students should be able to:
Describe Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for flight
Use Mate connectors to assemble parts
Use Relations to make the ornithopter work as a mechanism
Models: Link to Ornithopter
Other resources:
DaVinci Content
Assembly learning module
Comments
Models: Link to Ornithopter
Good Afternoon,
The idea is from a kit, I bought a few off amazon. I'm having my kids use scales and calipers to measure the parts and create them themselves before assembling. Like a reverse engineering project. Hope that helps.