SHOE HORN PROJECT
YEAR 7 RESISTANT MATERIAL PROJECT - 6 hours
Shoes are often difficult to get on. Design and make a product that will make it easier to put your shoes on.
Focussed practical tasks
- Drilling in metal
- Cutting aluminium
- Shaping aluminium
- Annealing aluminium
- Marking out on aluminium
- Filing and finishing of edges
- Forming
- Planishing and work hardening
- Buffing and polishing
Extension
- Riveting
Skills
- Following a 2D drawing
- Measuring
- Marking out
- Shaping
- Cutting out
- Finishing - edges
- Drilling
- Choice of correct tools
- Using equipment safely and efficiently
- Using a blow torch
- Forming
- Deforming & work hardening through texturing the surface
- Buffing and polishing
Processes
- Drawing 2D diagram
- Marking out
- Cutting out
- Shaping
- Annealing / heat - treatment
- Levers / linkages
- Heat treat
- Soften
- Deform
- Work harden
- Finishing
- Evaluating
Materials / Tools
- Aluminium sheet
- Rough file
- Smooth file
- Vice
- Pillar drill
- Steel rule
- Shears
- Forge
- Stakes
- Soap
- Rawhide mallet
- Planishing hammer
- Drill bit
- Centre punch
- Scriber
- Dividers
- Buffer
- Polish
- Paper towels
- Design Folder
Programmes of Study
- Respond to design brief (1b)
- Suggest outline plans (1f)
- Prioritise actions(1g)
- Select and use tools (2a)
- Characteristics and properties of materials (2b)
- Single products of quality (2d)
- Evaluate and test(3b)
- Classification of materials (4b)
- Materials and components combined & processed (4c)
- Focussed practical tasks (6b)
- Health and Safety
Level 2 / 3 Can:
- Can talk about product and work done
- With help select appropriate tools.
- Explain their choices.
- Can say what they have done well and what to improve.
Level 4 Can:
- Work from own detailed plans and change them if needed.
- Work with a range of tools & equipment with precision.
- Check work as it develops
- Work with accuracy & pay attention to finish.
- Test and evaluate products showing an understanding of the situation.
- Evaluate product and information sources
Level 5 Can:
- Use a variety of sources of information.
- Clarify ideas through discussion / drawing / modelling.
- Work from own detailed plans and change them if needed.
- Work with a range of tools & equipment with precision.
- Check work as it develops, modify to meet needs of user.
- Work with accuracy & pay attention to finish.
- Test and evaluate products showing an understanding of the situation.
- Evaluate product and information sources
For further details regarding this project contact John Hooson
at Royton and Crompton School Blackshaw Lane, Royton, Oldham.
OL2 6NT
