We are excited to share some fantastic educational resources to help you get your students excited about digital fabrication in the classroom!

Are you interested in getting your students excited about 3D printing, laser cutting, or 3D forming? Well you are in luck! We have put together a 2025 resource collection of great options for STEM learning.

Below, you'll discover some free curriculums, lesson plans, grant guides and project ideas from various partners to use in your classrooms. Check them out!

We are excited to share the newest MakerBot quick guide: "Teachers Tips for 3D Printing." This is your go-to guide for taking the 3D printing experience in your classroom to the next level. This guide was created by educators, and offers a comprehensive resource that unlocks the secrets to confident, efficient, and creative classroom printing.

Why Download:

• Explore an abundance of teacher-made tips, tricks and expert techniques to elevate your 3D printing game in the classroom.
• Learn time-saving solutions and techniques that will allow you to print more student projects in much less time.
• Gain confidence with proven strategies and understanding from experienced educators.

What’s Inside?

• How to create and design multi-color prints
• How to turn your student drawings into 3D prints
• Reducing print time for your classroom creations
• Printing larger-than-life prints

The newest installment of the MakerBot Educators Guidebook is here! Download your copy of the 3rd edition of MakerBot’s definitive guide to 3D printing in the classroom with over 150 pages available to you for free!

The attractive and easy-to-use guide for 3D printing in the classroom returns with its third edition and covers a crash-course in 3D printing and how to begin incorporating it into the classroom. This guide offers a wide range of fun and engating projects for all ages, including Robotics, Engineering, Mathematics, Science as well as projects for Art, History, and Music. It boasts a wide collection of techniques and tricks developed by educators already experienced with 3D printing.

Here’s what is covered:

• How to start 3D Printing in the Classroom with your students
• Breaking down the 3D Printing Process, step by step
• Curriculum Project Ideas for all grade levels
• Teachers’ Tricks to incorporate into your own workflow
• 3D Printing within Professional Industries

Bring 3D printing to your school or classroom by using the newest MakerBot 2025 Grant Guide! Whether for your classroom, library or entire school, this clickable guide is designed to make it easier for educators and administrators to find and secure valuable grants year-round.

Get an in-depth look at the state of additive manufacturing within Higher Education, Career Technical Education, and Research and a how-to on leveraging 3D printing to unlock new frontiers in research, academic and manufacturing settings.

Featured Topics:

• Overview of 3D Printing in Higher Education
• Looking at the Data: How 3D Printing is Growing in Higher Education
• How It’s Used: Most Common Uses for 3D Printing (e.g. Research Purposes, Academic Courses, CTE, and more)
• The Best 3D Printing Features to Look For in a 3D Printer

The e-NABLE Education Space is an ever evolving, open-source space developed by educators for educators who may be interested in collaborating, utilizing, and designing technology integrated curriculum, with an e-NABLE focus, aligned to the Next Generation Learning Standards.

Over the past 10 years, thousands of students and teachers around the world have incorporated the e-NABLE designs into their classrooms to teach students about 3D printing and using the technology for the greater good by creating devices that can be used by real people.

e-NABLE is a wonderful service-learning project for all grades, from kindergarten up through university levels. This resource offers lessons in empathy, collaboration, design thinking, 3D design, and much more. This is a great STEM and STEAM project to introduce to students to get them excited about finding ways to use 3D printing technology to make a difference.

You can purchase assembly kits (3D printed parts not included) from our shop.

Join thousands of students worldwide participating in the e-NABLE Community 3D printed hand project to make functional 3D printed assistive devices for those in need.

Students of all ages will learn how 3D printing can be used to make a difference in the lives of others and get inspired to start creating their own designs to assist others through this global service-learning project.

This is a beautiful human-centered design project that K-12, as well as university-level students, love to participate in! These e-NABLE educational maker kits are being used all over the world, in over 100 countries and counting!

BitSpace Chicago has put together some wonderful “Make-It” kits that are sure to delight students and teachers alike. Students will be learning how to use shop tools, discover design thinking skills, explore coding, make electronics and much more with these kits that are now available at 3D Universe.

We are excited to share that we are now stocking Bambu Lab Maker Kits at 3D Universe! Whether you want to create something fun with your students, your kids or yourself, they have a great collection of fun project kits to choose from!

The Bambu Lab Project Kits contain all of the non-3D printed parts for assembling an entirely functional project. To complete the work, you also need to download the model files and 3D print the remaining parts.

Created by teachers to cover every topic in the national curriculum, these project ideas are great for giving your students ideas of how they can use the Mayku FormBox for fun and functional projects!

Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) are all covered in these easy and fun Mayku FormBox activities!

Make sure to check out our fun project ideas on our YouTube channel as well for more fun ideas!

FLUX teams up with Flux Space to revolutionize STEAM education through CO2 laser cutters. Together, they have developed a curriculum for K-12, merging hands-on projects with foundational STEAM concepts. FLUX CO2 lasers transform classrooms, bridging theory and tangible learning, and preparing students for a future filled with innovation.

Full Spectrum Laser has created a great collection of educational resources for those who are just starting out with laser cutting as well as those who have been using them for a while and are just searching for fun projects to do!

You can start by learning the basics and intermediate lessons will help you learn new techniques.

Once you have completed the lessons, you get to learn by making! Your students will now have the freedom to pick any project and can understand the terminology and techniques required to complete them.

They also offer many free projects you can make, including signs, acrylic fish tanks, shelves, lampshades, light fixtures, floating tables, clock faces, and much more!

Dremel STEM lesson plans provide educators with a standards aligned curriculum (Common Core, NGSS, TEKS) created in collaboration with education experts. Every lesson plan has been tested in real-life education settings and designed to work in classrooms with up to 30 students. Students will be able to follow the lesson plan guidelines, work in teams while using their CAD design, Data Collection, Subject Knowledge, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration skills.

Click below for instructions on how to access the lesson plan library. You must own a Dremel 3D Printer as you will need your serial number to gain access.

If you are an educator looking at getting digital fabrication technology into your classrooms, feel free to email us at info@3duniverse.org for more information, quotes and educational discount opportunities!