Future Agriculture / Shop Teacher Needs lesson Plan Ideas

[Millsonwheels]

Personally I don't think you can drive home enough to young people the importance of blue print reading, layout, and reading basic welding symbols! Another thing that I see that is not being addressed any more is, preventing, controlling, and correcting warpage. Here is a very good book for a any person who wants to work in the trade. And a couple pictures of basic tools any welder / fabricator should carry.

Thank you,
I couldn't agree more about the importance of blueprint reading and layout, you can be very inefficient if you don't have some sort of plan.

Its funny you mentioned controlling and correcting warpage and have the Ball peen hammer as I have seen many a "welder" use it for such.

Eye Hoe.
Enabling technology.
Drove success of agriculture and art of toolmaking.
A 15 minute hands on demonstration of digging a drainage ditch with this tool vs a shovel will show a huge difference in how much ditch can be made in a given time. Understanding this tool gives insight into the design of the backhoe.

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Thank You,
That could definitely be something to teach about later on but for now since im teaching this presentation to people with a non farming background im afraid they would be lost to the reason why someone would dig a ditch in the first place.:confused2:

I really don't think you can stress enough on getting the basic tools to grow with on. There are 4 issues with tools. money, time, maintenance and repairs.
Most people get tools because they need to fix something because they dont have the money nor afford the downtime and hire someone to fix it every time something breaks or needs maintenance.

Really - the best thing for a young person is to understand that good quality combo tool kits with lifetime warranty is their best bet to grow and be profitable for life.

Thank You,
I know this to well, because the importance of taking care of your tools when you earn a living with them (like I am now in my business) cant be measured. I have a good friend that will take a full five gallon bucket full of broken craftsman tools back to sears to be returned at a time (according to him It makes some very agitated cashiers lol)

What you said will defiantly be something to preach on later on.

 

[Shield Arc]

Its funny you mentioned controlling and correcting warpage and have the Ball peen hammer as I have seen many a "welder" use it for such.

Take a ball pein hammer and say a 10-lb sledge hammer for a dolly and you can straighten a section of C-channel, by beating on the toes of the C-channel.

 

[Millsonwheels]

With a background in Ag Education, I can appreciate your effort to contribute valuable knowledge to these students.

Hand tools are sort of broad. Is there any area that you are trying to concentrate on?

With the absence of information, I will give a few that seem to be important, especially to Ag mechanics, and welding.

1) Chipping hammer, of course!
2) Hammers in general, the different types, ball peen, cross peen, blacksmith hammers etc. (whole lesson plan there)
3) Metal shears,sheet metal and Aviation snips, left/right/straight (and how to recognize the difference) (another whole lesson)
4) Screw Drivers, and the different types, sizes and tips, including manual and power drivers, torx, hex, and 8 point and drywall screw guns.
5) Wrenches, including line wrenches (especially important on working on injector or hydraulic lines),stubby's , combination wrenches, and box ends, as well as the more modern "gear" type.
6) Adjustable wrenches, including "Crescent" type, pipe type, monkey and more modern hybrids, and even basin wrenches.
7) Pliers, including water pump, sliding adjustable, locking, needle nose, offset, snap ring etc.
8) Clamps, bar type, pipe type, C, locking, angle jigs, etc...anything from the bessey catalog.
9) Different testing devices, including electrical meters, basic hand held oscilloscopes, ohm meters, volt/ amp, and how to use them and hook them up etc.
10) Different soldering tools, including irons, torches, and different solders and where they are appropriate to use.
11) Socket wrenches, along with ratcheting drivers, spinners, sizes of differenct common sizes how to identify size by eye, which ones are equivalent or will interchange (usually) between metric/standard.
12) Air tools: impact wrenches, ratchets, cut offs, deburring bits, pneumatic planes, needle scalers, etc.
13) Measuring devices and how to read them!!!! Very important. I have tried to hire some people that claim they can weld, but cannot even read a simple tape measure. When I call out a measurement, it's frustrating to receive a question, like, is that before or after the big line? Along with that all types of squaring, and truing devices.
14) Jacks, along with railroad type, and rail type, a good time to include their applications, like hydraulic, and arbor presses, and lifts.


Each one of these can be one full lesson plan...

Thanks,
All these are solid gold topics and would be excellent for the future, but for now it will be the basics though, just the bare bones now of what people with no other previous experience need to know.

Thanks again for taking the time to type all that out.

I think if your teaching tool recognition and uses you should also include how to maintain and care for your tools.

If you really want to help them introduce them to a greese gun. Around od maintainece is worth a tool box of repair.

Thanks,
Basic Greasing and Maintenance will be something to defiantly touch upon. One thing that drives me crazy is hearing a backhoe or excavator scream when its operating from not being greased. Its easier to spend 5 minutes with a grease gun than spend all day replacing bushings.

Take a ball pein hammer and say a 10-lb sledge hammer for a dolly and you can straighten a section of C-channel, by beating on the toes of the C-channel.

Thanks!,
Ive never heard of that being done before with a ball pein, just another sledge, Does it take a good lick with a ball pein to start to straighten it out?
-Mills

 

[Shield Arc]

Does it take a good lick with a ball pein to start to straighten it out?

Yes you have to beat the dog sheet out of it!
I really don't like that method, because it leaves dents in the toes of the C-channel. But without a strong back and hydraulic jack how else can you straighten C-channel in that direction?:confused3:

 

[nwngunner]

drafting, in 8th grade in shop we had a drafting class. I wish highschool would have had more of it. Loved it, and its amazing out often i find my self laying out the paper and the tsquare to draw something up. Even if i am just doing a quick rough sketch.

Really wish the high school i switched to would have had a shop class, welding and other things would have been right down my alley.

 

[Rustyiron]

Heck man! in 15 min you'll barely get beyond the board stretcher and the box of nails with the toenails in it! Just go with a hammer and a BFH! then outline the missing tools that they forgot to put back!:laughing:

 

[strum456]

First, is this middle or high school? (Big difference in what you can cover in 15 min).

Do not make you lesson a mile wide and an inch deep. There is so much you COULD do, but you need to design your lesson to capture the students attention, connect with previous knowledge, hold it their attention for 15 minutes, and leave them them wanting to learn more. A rookie mistake in this situation would be trying to cover more information than time permits. Another rookie mistake would be spending too much time deciding what tools to cover and not enough time thinking of ways to engage the students. Trust me, your lesson will be evaluated based on your teaching, not how many or what tools you "cover".

If you want, PM me and I'll give you a call if you are really stumped.

 

[moored4]

Thank You for your input I will most certainly be putting in basic hammers, ratchets and differences in 6 and 12 point sockets, basic wrenches.

Absolutely, I understand that 15 minutes is kind of tight for an in depth demonstration, that's why this one will be pure basics similar to what would be thought at the Middle school shop level (not enough time for the fun stuff)

8 point and allen head sockets. And a double set of everthing one in INCH and one in METRIC:thumbsup: