Research on Teaching Model of 3D Printing Course Based on Creativity Cultivation in Primary Schools

Abstract

As a new course, 3D printing course is highly acclaimed for its interest, openness and practicality. This paper explores how to use it to cultivate pupils’ creativity. On the basis of Triffinger’s three-level theory of creative learning and Parnes’s teaching model of creative problem solving, the author proposed the core qualities of creativity, namely, observation, imagination, conception and design, as well as designed the 3D printing teaching model based on creativity cultivation in primary schools which has the following problem solving process “discovery-explanation-imagination-conception-design-printing” to train students’ divergent and convergent thinking. Importance has been attached to the exhibition of creative intention while evaluating students’ creativity.