Blender is Awesome!
It is completely free and powerful enough to do stuff like this:
We won't get that far today, but hopefully by the end of the lesson you will complete your project.
Grade 5 Project: Making a Digestive/Circulatory/Respiratory System
Or in the hands of real professionals, even stuff like this.
Grade 6 Project: Making an Insect
Getting Started:
Download and Install Blender
Make sure you have a copy of the Blender Basics handout.
Warm up:
Download and open ToyBox1.blend.
Practice Duplicating, Grabbing, Rotating and Scaling the objects to make your own scene.
Ideas:
Make a neighborhood with a few houses, a forest
Make a family of people, dinosaurs, aliens
Recreate a scene from a movie
Change the colour of the people, car, house, dinosaur.
Grade 5 Project:
Here is a simple human model to get you started.
Grade 6 Project:
You are on your own!