Lesson Plan: Sewing Machine Safety
National Family & Consumer Sciences Standards:
16.0: Textiles, Fashion & Apparel
16.4.1: Demonstrate professional skills in using a variety of equipment, tools, and supplies for fashion, apparel, and textile construction, alteration, and repair.
Common Core State Standards:
RST.9-10.3 : Follow precisely a multi-step procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
Purpose:
Sewing machines are a wonderful tool for stitching fabric. They can also be dangerous. This lesson will teach students how to safely use this wonderful tool.
Behavioral Objective:
The student will understand and demonstrate proper sewing machine use.
Time: 1 – 50 minute class period
Materials Needed:
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sewing machine, thread, scissors, fabric
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Sewing Machine Safety Quiz or Sewing Machine Safety ONLINE Quiz
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Sewing Machine Safety Reading – for absent students and use with the InFocus projector
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For Absent Students:
Anticipatory Set:
Discuss that you will be showing students how to safely use the sewing machine.
Instructional Content:
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Demonstrate how to use the sewing machine. You may use the Sewing Machine Safety – Handout under an InFocus projector or as teacher notes.
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Demonstrate how to use the sewing machine and give students an opportunity to practice using them.
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Students take the written quiz: Sewing Machine Safety Quiz. The quiz also available to take online at Sewing Machine Safety ONLINE Quiz. Teachers may access the quiz and student answers here.
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Students who were absent can access the YouTube video, Powerpoints and online quiz. Teachers may also choose to give students the Sewing Machine Safety Reading, which contains all of the information from the PowerPoint.
Flipped Instruction/Independent Study Option:
Students may learn all of the lesson content online at KPCompass.com. The teacher may give the student the course code: VXMQNH9P to enter they have logged onto the site. Then under “Washington State Safety Project” they can click on the “Textiles and Apparel” link,then on each page to to learn the information presented and to take the associated quiz.
Teachers wishing to have their own class site on KPCompass.com will have instant access to all of their student progress. For a free class site, please contact the webmaster at: Dawn_Boyden@lkstevens.wednet.edu.
Assessment:
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Sewing Machine Safety ONLINE Quiz – Student copy
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Sewing Machine Safety ONLINE Quiz – Teacher copy and student results
- Sewing Machine Safety Test