Slovenia Osnovna šola 8. razred Curriculum - Material Processing

This curriculum covers material processing, focusing on wood, plastics, and metals. It emphasizes hands-on learning, project-based activities, and the development of technical skills, alongside an understanding of material properties and safe work practices. The curriculum encourages creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration, integrating elements of economics and ecology.

Material Processing: Wood

This course introduces students to woodworking techniques and combines wood with other materials like paper, leather, straw, and wire. Students learn to use hand tools and some basic machines like the jigsaw, electric drill, and sander. The course covers:

• Program and Work Organization: Includes workshop organization, workstation setup, tool selection, and safety procedures.
• Material Properties: Students compare the properties of wood, paper, textiles, and rubber.
• Technical Documentation: Reading and interpreting technical drawings, parts lists, and process sheets.
• Material Selection and Preparation: Choosing the right wood, marking, and measuring.
• Clamping and Securing Workpieces: Safe work practices for handling materials and tools.
• Cutting Processes: Sawing, drilling, and sanding techniques.
• Shaping Processes: Cutting, bending, breaking, and punching.
• Joining Processes: Gluing, screwing, nailing, and doweling.
• Testing and Refinement: Evaluating functionality and making improvements to projects.
• Surface Finishing: Applying protective coatings and finishes.
• Economics: Calculating material costs, labor, and profit.
• Project Work: Designing and building a functional project, applying learned skills.

Material Processing: Plastics

This course focuses on working with various plastics, often combined with other materials like leather, textiles, paper, wood, and thin metal sheets or wires. Students may use soldering irons and heat guns. The course emphasizes precision and introduces industrial production methods, covering:

• Workstation Organization and Safety: Maintaining a tidy workspace and following safety guidelines.
• Industrial and Craft Production Methods: Understanding different production approaches and the concept of productivity.
• Properties of Plastics: Distinguishing between thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers, and silicones.
• Testing Material Properties: Conducting experiments to understand the characteristics of plastics.
• Excursions: Visiting craft or industrial facilities to observe production processes.
• Project Work: Designing and building a project with multiple components, often involving a division of labor.
• Environmental Awareness: Considering the impact of material choices and production methods on the environment.

Material Processing: Metals

This course introduces metalworking, including turning wood or plastics on a lathe, cold forging steel, heat treatment, and surface protection techniques like enameling. Students learn about different types of steel and other metals and alloys. The course covers:

• Program and Work Organization: Workshop organization, safety procedures, and the use of tools and machines.
• Lathes and Turning: Understanding lathe components and operation, and practicing safe turning techniques.
• Machine Control: Distinguishing between manual and automated machine control.
• Tool Maintenance: Sharpening and maintaining hand tools.
• Project Work: Designing and creating a project based on cultural heritage or other inspiration, incorporating turning and other metalworking techniques.
• Material Properties: Comparing the properties of metals with other materials.
• Tools and Processes for Metalworking: Learning about various metalworking tools and techniques.
• Measuring, Marking, Cutting, and Bending: Practicing precise metalworking skills.
• Cold Forging, Welding, and Tempering: Introduction to these metalworking processes.
• Surface Finishing: Applying coatings and enameling.
• Assembly: Joining metal parts using various methods.
• Technical Professions: Learning about careers in the metalworking industry.