JHS2 Career Technology · Term 3 Week 5: Planning for Making Artefacts/products

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B8.5.3.1.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Examine a design folio and identify the key working drawings, including the plan view, detailed drawings and cutting list, needed to make a wooden artefact.
Assess the workshop environment for health and safety conditions, listing at least five hazards or safety requirements before work begins.
Prepare a cutting list for a simple wooden artefact, calculating the number and dimensions of pieces required from a given working drawing.
Select appropriate tools and materials for making a wooden artefact, justifying each choice based on the working drawing and available resources.
Produce a step-by-step plan for making a wooden artefact, sequence the processes correctly and identify the skills or guidance needed before starting actual work.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Designing and Making of Artefacts/products (Strand 5)
Sub-strand: Planning for Making Artefacts/products (5.3)
Content standard: B8.5.3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of planning for making artefacts/products and table setting
Indicator: B8.5.3.1.1 - Plan and make wooden, metal/plastic artefacts
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Career Technology, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 68
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Study the design folio and critically examine the working drawings.
E.g., plan, detailed drawings and cutting list.
2. Study the workshop environment to check on health and safety conditions of the place.
Note:
- Go over the workshop rules, regulations, ventilation and light situations, and ensure any necessary workshop repairs are carried out before the start of work.
- Study the conditions of the timber pieces, tools and the processes involved for first-hand information to avoid any mistake.
- Seek guidance or tutorials on aspects concerning materials, tools and processes or skills not conversant with before the actual work.