Cutting/shaping · JHS1 Career Technology

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B7.3.2.1.1 - Identify cutting and shaping tools and equipment used for production.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least five cutting tools and five shaping tools from the four production areas studied (food, sewing, woodwork, building, metal/plastics).
Match each cutting or shaping tool to the correct production area where it is used.
State the specific function or purpose of at least eight different cutting and shaping tools.
Sort a mixed list of tools into two groups: cutting tools and shaping tools.
Justify why a particular tool is classified as a cutting tool or a shaping tool based on what it does to the material.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Tools, Equipment and Processes (Strand 3)
Sub-strand: Cutting/shaping (3.2)
Content standard: B7.3.2.1 - Demonstrate understanding of cutting/shaping tools and equipment for production
Indicator: B7.3.2.1.1 - Identify cutting and shaping tools and equipment used for production.
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 2 (Week 14 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. 19
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Identify the displayed cutting tools:
- Food laboratory: - Cutting tools: All kinds of kitchen knives (pairing, chopping bread), biscuit cutters. - Shaping tools: Cake tins, moulds, scoops for ice cream etc.
- Sewing workshop/laboratory - . Scissors, pinking shears, seam ripper and French curves)
- Woodwork-Rip saws, cross cut saw, tenon saw, firmer chisel, mortice chisel, spoke shave, rasp file.
- Building-Bolster, brick hammer, mould box
- Metal/plastics-Hacksaw, junior hacksaw, hand file, flat file, square file, rectangular file, file card, cold chisels, drills and bits