Education

Mr. Wright’s Industrial Arts Education Class

I am now a retired Shop Teacher - who loved teaching Junior High Industrial Arts multiple activity class. (Multiple activity means groups of 4 or 5 students work in one area for a few weeks, and rotate from area to area through the year.) This is a multiple-activity class where students rotate through “shops” to develop transferable and essential skills when completing hands-on projects and tasks.

The following has been created after I retired and includes new areas and different projects and is intended to inspire future students and teachers to learn about the practical arts.

The year begins with general shop safety. After the initial safety learning, then each shop (area) starts with Safety and then moves to Making, and finally the student Sharing their project. 

Each Shop: Safety —> Making —> Sharing

Architecture Shop - Structures for life, work, and play 

1 - Floor Plan with Walls 

2 - Outdoor Space 

3 - Apartment Building 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up

Future Shop - what would you like to see developed?

1 - New Project Suggestion

2 - New Project Suggestion

3 - New Project Suggestion

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up

Wood Shop - Description with second line

1 - Loonie Coin Bank 

2 - CO2 Metric Dragster 

3 - (Rube Goldberg / Great Ball Contraption / Maze) 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up   

Textile Shop - Description with second line

1 - Tool Roll 

2 - Sewing (Tool-bag / Apron) 

3 - Leatherwork 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up    

Robot Shop - Using mechatronics to make things move 

1 - Remote Control (wire or radio) - motor 

2 - Control Program - servo 

3 - Reactionary - Sensors as Inputs 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up    

Cosplay Shop - Where Practical Arts meets Pop Arts

1 - Foam accessory rosette

2 - (curves)

3 - Foam Headpiece (sphere)

Additional / Choice Projects

  • Shop Set Up

General Safety - at the start of the year.

Class Lessons

Throughout the year, a class lesson is presented to the whole class (no students work in their shops that day).

The following are some examples of Class Lessons:

  • ABC of Hand Tools

  • Career (myBlueprint.ca)

  • Design and Fabrication Portfolio

  • Design Thinking Process

  • Portfolio Development

  • Presenting / Displaying work

  • Maker Fair

  • Project Box Team Challenge

  • Project Management

  • Reading Plans

  • Repair

  • Sketching

  • Skill Tree

  • Skills Self-Assessment

  • Troubleshooting

Prop Shop - Replicating realistic items at scale 

1 - Replica Prop (1:1 scale) 

2 - Scene (Smaller Scale) 

3 - _____ (Larger Scale) 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up   

Design and Prototyping Shop - Design and rapid prototyping 

1 - 3D CAD to Prototype 

2 - 3D Additive (filament, resin) 

3 - 3D Removal (CNC mill) 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up 

Electronics Shop - Putting Electrons to Work 

1 - Breadboard / Solder - Blinky 

2 - Micro:bit (coding) 

3 - Arduino

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up  

Metal Shop - Description for two lines

1 - Holder / Organizer 

2 - Parts Sorter with Funnel (Curves / Cones)

3 - Machining 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up 

Model Shop - Creating original hard-surface model scratch builds

1 - Theme Park (fantasy building) 

2 - Styrene Build (kit-bashing) 

3 - Multi Material 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up  

Plastic Shop - Description with second line

1 - Coin Purse (lettering foil) 

2 - Mold making and Vacuum Forming 

3 - Casting 

Additional / Choice Projects 

  • Shop Set Up