Tuesday / Wednesday October 2/ 3

Classes focused on different aspects of broadening and deepening skills; all students focused on developing the ideas for their scale working drawings for their toy project.

Many students will be able to create full scale (1" = 1") drawings of their projects. Students are encouraged to do sketches of the three main views (plan; front and side elevations) before starting the scale drawings because of the interrelated nature of the drawings.

Students were shown the available wheels and axels, and were told to plan for 1/2 inch from any edge to the center of an axel. (3/8 ths of an inch may be acceptable).

Students had opportunities to work on demonstrating proficiency on tools. Students are reminded to maintain safer working conditions; attend to dust collection; and to finish their demos by putting all accessories away properly.

Some students have had (and others will get Thursday and Friday) instruction regarding milling (the use of the jointer, planner, and other machines to get "4 Square" material.

Monday 1 October

Students were demonstrated the compound miter saw.

Students studied the safer use of the bandsaw.

Students had time to work on sketches for their toy project.

Students worked to demonstrate their understanding of the use of the drill press and miter saw.

Friday, September 28

Intro students took their dril press test.

These students took notes on how to use a bandsaw.

Students had time to work on their drawings

or to do Demo tests on the Drill Press or other machines.

Thursday, September 27

Thank you to Mr. Winn for teaching for me today.

As a reminder: We are in the Design Phase of the toy project. In this phase you need to: 
A) develop at least five (5) sketches of different possible projects
B) Choose a project and get feedback from Mr. Zartler 
C) Develop three (3) different scale views of the project.

Each of these is a Note Book Assignment

Today you will watch an inspirational and instructional video
and
Use a graphic organizer to take notes on Safer Band Saw Operations
if time permits, you can work on the sketches, or do more research by looking at the books I have put out, or searching for information on whirlygigs, etc.




The Wood Wright's Shop is a television show with a long history. Roy Underhill has written a number of books, and the show has been running about 30 years. Roy focuses on hand tool work and the methods of wood working before electricity was available. While we may have machines to do many things that took longer to do by hand, what he demonstrates is top notch woodworking, and shows ways YOU can do amazing things with wood without expensive machines.

Today I'd like you to watch an episode that features him making moving "toys".  https://www.pbs.org/video/the-woodwrights-shop-secrets-of-the-whirlygig/ 


After watching the video please take five minutes to write down any questions or curiosities that come from watching; any observations you made, and to sketch any new ideas you might have for your project from the video. You might consider what did he do that might apply to other building activities? Were there general ideas that apply to other kinds of projects. I'll go over any thoughts with you next class.

Band Saw Safer Operations is the link to all the band saw information on Maucks.com 

Use the graphic organizer (below and on the small white board) to take notes on use of this important tool.

Band Saw Safety Introduction (3:55)

Band Saw Setup (3:19)

Band Saw Safer Cutting (9:09)

Advanced Band Saw Cutting (10:00)

Use the following organizer for your notes.

Band Saw

General Description:

"Do's"                                            "Don'ts"

Safety

Set Up

Reference Surfaces/

Guides

Hands / Body

Operations:

Wednesday, September 26

Tuesday, September 25

Monday, September 24

2nd period Wood Workers studied how to study tool safety video.

They studied the drill press videos, and Mr. Zartler showed drill presses in the Grant Wood Shop.

Students had time to finish their working drawings of the objects they made last week.

Students had time to sketch ideas for their toys.

The class reviewed the previous post for expectations and goals of the next unit.

Students SHOULD have completed the working drawings assignment; students should have completed their acknowledgment for the next unit: Keeping my design and process notes for this project is an important part of my grade for this project.  I understand this: ______ (signed and dated)