1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Mathematics
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6 Attend to precision.

2. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?
In the mid-1700s, southwest of London, near the village of Cobham, the Honorable Charles Hamilton designed the gardens known as Painshill. The centerpiece of his creation is this crystal grotto.
With a base and frame of brick, wood, and plaster, the surface of this above-ground cavern gleams and sparkles with hundreds of thousands of crystals, including quartz, fluorite, and calcite. After falling into disrepair during the 20th century, the crystal grotto was fully restored to its original splendor in 2013.
While a hand-crafted cave may seem like a strange endeavor, it’s just one part of Hamilton’s achievement: a perfect example of the English landscape garden. Unlike the meticulously manicured formal gardens that became popular in France during the preceding centuries, the English landscape garden of the 1700s was meant to give the visitor a sense of being immersed in an idealized wilderness. Indeed, at the Painshill gardens, it’s easy to think that it all simply happened to grow this way, with the gardens echoing the natural flow of a true wilderness, even though they were all carefully engineered.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?1
Web Search
What is a 3D printer? 2
Locate free 3D printing software that you can use to create a model of the crystal grotto. 3
What types of measurements would you need to obtain in order to create a model of the crystal grotto? 4
Thinking
If you were to create a 3D model of the cave, which part of the cave would you construct? 5
How would modeling the crystal grotto help you to better learn about the cave?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?1
Web Search
What is a 3D printer? 2
Locate free 3D printing software that you can use to create a model of the crystal grotto. 3
What types of measurements would you need to obtain in order to create a model of the crystal grotto? 4
Thinking
If you were to create a 3D model of the cave, which part of the cave would you construct? 5
How would modeling the crystal grotto help you to better learn about the cave?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?1
Web Search
What is a 3D printer?
(Possible Search Queries: 3D printer, 3d printer infographic)
Sources
MakerBot:
Popular 3D Printers:
A 3D printer is prints 3 dimentional renderings of graphics. The graphics need to be designed in a

8. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?2
Web Search
Locate free 3D printing software that you can use to create a model of the crystal grotto.
(Possible Search Queries: 3d printing software, 3d printing software free)
Sources
Tinkercad:
Autodesk 123D:

9. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?
Web Search
What types of measurements would you need to obtain in order to create a model of the crystal grotto?
(Possible Search Queries: modeling 3D printer measurements, scaling with a 3d printer, creating a 3d model scale )
Sources
Stratasys:
Lynda:
A photo is already a scale model of the cave. Students will need to measure the heights of the cones as well as taking the measurement of the slant. Students need to consider how to measure cured surfaces. Students will need to determine the proportions of the cones with the height of the cave.

10. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?4
Thinking
If you were to create a 3D model of the cave, which part of the cave would you construct?
Student answers will vary. Students should mention that there are different parts of the caves, they would need to pick one part of the cave that represents the elements of the cave.

11. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?5
Thinking
How would modeling the crystal grotto help you to better learn about the cave?
Student answers will vary. Students may mention how they have to spend more time with the smaller details of the cave to 3D model it and to have a better understanding of what the cave looks like.

12. How would you go about creating a 3D model of the crystal grotto?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.