Year 10 Manufacturing (Resistant
Material)
The Clock Project
Clock Project | Classwork/Homework | Week |
Practical Skills Involved | Classwork/Homework | |
Marking out shapes (Making Template) | (I.T) | 3 |
Cutting out shape using coping saws and hacksaws | Classwork | 3 |
Edge Treatment using blades, glass paper, files, buffing machine | Classwork | 4/5 |
Drilling to allow for the clock mechanism (Use of pattern drill bit) | Classwork | 4 |
Cutting wood for laminated base | Classwork | 4/5 |
Gluing up using G-cramps | Classwork | 5 |
Planing wood, glass paper | Classwork | 4/5 |
Use of varnish on Laminated wood | Classwork | 6 |
Laminating layers of plastic | Classwork | 4 |
Installing mechanism | Classwork | 7 |
Design Skills Involved | Classwork/Homework | Week |
Design Situation and Brief | (I.T) | 1 |
Specifications | (I.T) | 1 |
Initial Ideas | Homework/apply rendering | 2 |
Finished Presentation Drawing | Classwork/Homework | 2 |
Time Plan of Construction | Classwork/Homework | 4 |
Evaluation | Classwork | 7 |
Web diagram of possible themes | Classwork | 1 |
Flowchart of Construction | (I.T) | 3/4 |
Orthographic of Clock Mechanism | (I.T) | 3 |
Research Clocks and Imagery | Internet/magazines/photographs | 2 |
Jigs and Templates/Patterns | Homework | 6 |
Theory Involved | Classwork/Homework | Week |
Plastics (Thermoplastics and Thermosetting Plastics) | Classwork | 2 |
Properties of certain Plastics | Classwork | 3 |
Cutting Tools(Hacksaws and Coping Saws) | Classwork | 5 |
Edge Treatment of Acrylic | Diary Homework | 3 |
How materials are prepared for manufacture allowing for waste and fine line finishing. | Classwork | 3 |
Self-Finishing(Acrylic). Applied Finishing(Laminated Base) for aesthetic purposes and functional purposes. | Classwork | 6 |
Pre-manufactured components - Clock Mechanisms | Homework-Research Components | 5 |
British Standards Symbol-Use of British Standards | Classwork | 7 |
Marking Out Techniques-Tools/Equipment | Diary Homework | 2 |