Today you will start building a castle.  Your castle needs to have your own "wing" where you will have minecraft representation of interesting facts about you.  Be creative in how you show it (art, books, etc).  Ask other's opinions about what you have, or something you should include if there is a unique aspect about you others find interesting.Once the castle is complete, your group needs to work on building a farm where you will grow crops and collect animals so you can sustain your castle's living.After we have some completed castles, you will visit other worlds to see what other classmates have created.  Remember, when you visit others' worlds, YOU ARE A GUEST.  You are not to destroy anything.  If you do, make sure you can repair it, and apologize for your activities.

The scenario is that the student is working in the engineering department of a manufacturing plant. The plant has access to a wide variety of machining tools, so it is customary for them to make or repair their own parts as things wear out. Many of the parts are unique to the equipment at the facility, so it is impossible to simply order one from some outside supplier. Even if a part was available, it is cost prohibitive to buy new.

Students will be provided with a small piece of machinery that they must reverse engineer the dimensions. For middle school level students, the geometry will be kept rather simple and the measurements straightforward. For high school students, the geometry can become more complex, requiring some drafting skill, caliper use, and higher level CAD design.

Once the students take all the necessary measurements, then using CAD (Tinkercad for the lower grades), they will build up a virtual mock-up of the part. From there, the option would be to teach additive or reductive design. The part could be recreated using either a CNC or 3D printer.

Students explore the concept of fair use, apply it to case studies, and
create an original work of fair use.
Students learn how to judge whether something is protected by fair use
by using the Four Points of Fair Use Student Handout. They
apply the four points of fair use to two case studies, a remixed video and
a mash-up song, to judge whether or not they fall under fair use.
Students then create an original work of fair use by reworking
copyrighted material to create a collage or a remix video.