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Science & education
71 ready-made 3D-printable models for science & education. Open any of them to change the size, walls, dividers and labels, then download STL or 3MF.
Crafts & making 73
Photography & film 34
Music & audio 48
Tabletop gaming & play 73
Kids & play 86
Science & education 71
Sport & fitness 28
Outdoor & adventure 43
Car & bike 27
Pets & aquarium 58
Raindrop-size flour tray
Measure the size of raindrops by catching them in flour
Junior forensic lab
Dust and match fingerprints and unmask a pen with ink chromatography
Micrometeorite hunting kit
Find real space dust in your roof gutter with a wash tray, a magnet sleeve and a loupe
Strawberry DNA extraction lab
Pull visible strands of DNA out of a strawberry with soap, salt and cold alcohol
Buffon's-needle pi tray
Estimate pi by dropping matchsticks on a tray of parallel lines
Zhang Heng earthquake ball
Detect a tremor when a marble balanced on a slender column falls into the dish
Woodlouse choice chamber
Let woodlice choose between damp, dry, light and dark, and count where they go
Ames-room illusion box
Make two identical toys look like a giant and a dwarf through a peephole
Cloud-chamber cosmic-ray base
See the trails of cosmic-ray particles in a home-made cloud chamber
Phone-screen photoelastic viewer
See the hidden stress in clear plastic as rainbows using a phone screen
Moon-crater impact tray
Drop pebbles into flour and cocoa from marked heights to make lunar craters
Stream-table river maker
Watch water carve rivers, meanders and a delta in a tray of sand
UV-bead sunscreen tester
Prove a sunscreen still works with beads that change colour in sunlight
Gummy-bear osmosis lab
Watch gummy bears grow, shrink or dissolve in four liquids overnight
Egg-drop challenge pod
Protect a raw egg in a drop test with rubber-band suspension and a parachute ring
Layered water-filter science kit
Clean muddy water through gravel, sand and charcoal layers
Mineral streak test kit
Identify minerals with a streak plate, hardness tests and a lens
Three-water solar still
Turn salty, muddy and inky water into clean drops with sunshine
Cabbage-juice pH rainbow plate
Make a pH rainbow with red-cabbage juice in eight labelled wells
Name-stick picker
Pick a pupil's name at random from lolly sticks, then move it to DONE
Anamorphic mirror art stand
Draw distorted pictures that come right in a mirror cylinder
Fossil dig casting mould
Cast a plaster block with toy fossils for children to excavate
Kitchen chemistry test-tube rack
Run kitchen science experiments with eight test tubes
Rock-tumbler grit station
Keep the four rock-tumbling grits apart so polish never gets contaminated
Water-molecule desk tidy
Sort pens and clips in an H2O molecule
Mushroom spore-print box
Take spore prints of four mushroom caps undisturbed
Meridiana
Mark solar noon and the season with a sun spot
FitzRoy Tower
House and read a storm glass weather vial
Fulcrum Stand
Hold a balance beam on a knife-edge pivot
Fulcrum Beam
Show balancing moments with coins and clips
Voussoir Wedge
Build a self-supporting arch from nine blocks
Voussoir Centring
Support arch blocks while the arch is built
Rekenrek Frame
Teach counting in fives and tens with beads
Automaton Stage
Turn a crank to make cam-driven figures move
Physarum Maze
Watch a slime mould solve a maze
Seed Crystal
Hang seed crystals in a jar of solution
Samara Drop
Show autorotation with a printed maple seed
Strobilus
Read the humidity from a real pine cone
Funicular Frame
Find arch and vault shapes with hanging chains
Corbel Reach
Stack blocks to overhang beyond the table edge
Kamal latitude finder
Measure latitude from the Pole Star
Litre cube
Show that a litre is a 10 cm cube
Half-metre trundle wheel
Measure distances by counting wheel turns
Telescope solar projection box
Watch the Sun safely by projection
Leeuwenhoek ball-lens microscope
See cells with a single glass bead lens
Eureka overflow can for rock density
Measure rock volume and density by displacement
Newton colour wheel spinner
Show that the spectrum colours mix to white
Petri dish stacking column
Store and dispense petri dishes
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