PROJECT LIBRARY
Check out ideas from our project library! Browse projects developed for your grade level to find options for your class visit to CraterWorks. Most projects are customizable in collaboration with our Education Project Developer to ensure that outcomes supports classroom instruction.
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Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
PASSPORTS TO ADVENTURE
These are projects that focus on names, classroom signage and systems, core words, telling time, and so on.
Standards: Reading, Language, Math, Health, Science.
Field Trip Nametags (K.RF, 1.RF, 2.RL.7)
Students make durable name tags to use on class adventures or in learning groups. Tools and methods vary based on age and project details.
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Project time: 60 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None
Laser-cut Clock (K.N.CC.A, 1.GM.C, 2.GM.D)
Students make a large wall clock for the classroom or individual clocks for home. Students can customize the clock face in Adobe Illustrator or acrylic paint, depending on available time and skill level.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None
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Materials fee may apply
Plant Garden Stake
Students design and engrave garden stakes for school garden or home.
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Project time: 90 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None
Solar System Module
Students assemble, decorate and color their own solar system while learning characteristics of planets and order from the sun.
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Project time: 90 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None
Grades 3 - 5
MISHMASH MATH
Hands-on crafting and building projects that incorporate math at your classroom's level.
Standards: Math, Science
Customized Rain Gauge
Hands-on science designing their custom rain gauges while learning about collecting data, climate education, tracking storms, and learning about Earth.
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Project time: 90 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Constellation Night Light
Classroom to Craterworks at its best. Students will create their constellations in Adobe Illustrator, watch them laser cut openings, and then assemble their night light.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Intro to Adobe Illustrator
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Teachers to provide lights
Flower Bud Vase
Students design, sand, and engrave as a gift over the holiday season.
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Project time: 90 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Intro to Adobe Illustrator
Middle School
PASSPORTS TO ADVENTURE
These projects are for students who are beginning to develop an understanding of their places in the world and their own personal style.
Standards: Math, Science, Language, Reading, Health
Building Operation Game Boards
Multi-day group project totally customized to curriculum. Students will design boards and game pieces in Adobe Illustrator, assemble, and Solder wires to create their workable light-up and sound machine.
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Project time: 120 mins+ for 2-3 sessions
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Customizable design options ie. Endangered Animals, National Parks, Revolutionary War
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Skills with project: Soldering wires, assembly, Adobe Illustrator
Backpacker's Flower Press
Laser engrave, assemble, and design artwork for their own flower press. Small, compact, and ready to use on their next hike with their class.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Intro to Adobe Illustrator
Wood Planter Decorative Box (gift)
Laser engrave, assemble, and design artwork for their own flower press. Small, compact, and ready to use on their next hike with their class.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Intro to Adobe Illustrator
High School
CREATURE COMFORTS
These projects are build projects for all sorts of critters, from bats to bees. During the design process, students learn a little about the science of the creatures needs and how those needs are incorporated into their builds.
Standards: Math, Science, Language, Reading, Health
Tabletop Votive Holder
Students will sand, measure, use the drill press to create their perfect votive holder. .
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Project time: 90 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Votive candles provided by teacher
Creating and Cooking in the Commercial Kitchen
Teacher led (typically) to incorporate classroom curriculum.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Kitchen is limited to 10 students at a time
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Skill requirements: Personal Hygiene
Goals: Engraved Block
Goal setting project including the significance of having one of your goals in front of you often.
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Project time: 120 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: Intro to Adobe Illustrator
Solar Prints (K.ESS3.1, 1.PS4.3)
This one is part scavenger hunt, part science lesson. Students will collect and identify plants, flowers, other interesting items from nature, then make a solar print of their found objects on light-sensitive paper.
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Project time: 60 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None
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Materials fee may apply
Life Cycle Classroom Display (K.ESS.2, 1.LS1.1,2.LS4.1)
Your students learn a bout nature and create life cycle displays for the classroom. Classroom curriculum can inform which life cycles are depicted in the displays (local trout, for instance), or pick a couple of animals and start making!
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Project time: 60 mins (scalable)
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Customizable design options
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Skill requirements: None