Woodwork/Technical Graph Teaching Aids Help

daniels.ducks

I am currently in teacher education and have a repeat. I am unable to think outside the box and this is why I failed. Trying to look for help from teachers with experience. This is my brief:

"Design a product/object that reflects a key principle associated with a Technology education subject of your choice (min. 2). Devise a challenge for students to create physical objects that reflect themes, concepts and standards. With these objects students learn basic subjects in an interactive environment that promotes the transfer of information. They learn to make logical connections, identify cause and effect, draw analogies, and think critically at the highest level.

Individually, students must develop, plan and manage a series (min. 3) of products (aids), representing a key principle(s) in Technology Education, through which strategies for teaching and learning are facilitated in Technology Education."

So basically I have to make three teaching aids. I can't think beyond simple things such as the planes of reference for technical graphics. I know it works well as I used it on teaching practice.

Hopefully you guys can help me on this as I am stumped.

teacherhead

Come on now. Nobody's going to do it for you.

Pick your subject then a topic and look at the underlying principles.

What should the pupil understand? Is there any crosscurricular link?

Think trial and error, exploring to find out answers, drawing conclusions (you might even call it active learning!!)

daniels.ducks

teacherhead wrote: »

Come on now. Nobody's going to do it for you.

Pick your subject then a topic and look at the underlying principles.

What should the pupil understand? Is there any crosscurricular link?

Think trial and error, exploring to find out answers, drawing conclusions (you might even call it active learning!!)

just thought i'd get some advice from people that have experience teaching. I find it difficult to put myself into a pupils mind. Areas that I find easy, they might find difficult. Not asking for it to be done, just some advice is all.

Maybe find a some direction to go in? I am actually finding it difficult looking through content and try and come up with resources that don't already exist. I could just go in and hand in my planes of reference that I made for teaching practice. Another idea I had was to get a section from a tree and cut a sector out of it. The fill this sector with that hard spongey material that is found in plants to represent the hearth wood and then just a regular sponge for the sap wood. This shows how water and minerals flow through the sapwood. I don't jnow if this is goo enough, or why can't I just explain this to the students. I don't think they need a demonstration of this.
Another idea I had was to again get a three sections of trees and cut them out using the three main conversion methods and use it as activity like a jig saw so that the students will learn about grain direction in the three different methods.

I'm not trying to get someone else to do this for me. Just looking for advice. I have three things there already but are these good enough? Only experienced teachers can tell me.

You might think i'm lazy but i'm trying to do the best job I can at this because I know these will be resources that I will hopefully use in my future career.

Supersonic42

Not sure if this is exactly what your looking for but might help, topic is foundations, principle is how the load of a building is transferred to the ground. You have a box/lunch box full of compost. Using 6mm ply cut 3 rectangles out ( just smaller than the lunch box so they fit in and can rest on the soil).

1 piece of ply stays solid to represent a raft found
The next 2 need to have a smaller rectangle cut out of the centre, these can represent strip foundations. With one of the strip founds drill 6mm holes in it and glue in small dowels to represent piles.

Students can then put each each of the three ply pieces in to the box one at a time and apply pressure. This shows the basic principles behind three common foundations. The dowel piles will hit the bottom of the box I.e the hard strata.

daniels.ducks

Supersonic42 wrote: »

Not sure if this is exactly what your looking for but might help, topic is foundations, principle is how the load of a building is transferred to the ground. You have a box/lunch box full of compost. Using 6mm ply cut 3 rectangles out ( just smaller than the lunch box so they fit in and can rest on the soil).

1 piece of ply stays solid to represent a raft found
The next 2 need to have a smaller rectangle cut out of the centre, these can represent strip foundations. With one of the strip founds drill 6mm holes in it and glue in small dowels to represent piles.

Students can then put each each of the three ply pieces in to the box one at a time and apply pressure. This shows the basic principles behind three common foundations. The dowel piles will hit the bottom of the box I.e the hard strata.

Thanks for your reply.It's the leaving cert syllabus, but will definitely use it. Also that's how I think I need to approach this.:)