Quiz Topics
1.0 SAFETY
Specific Competence: Apply personal safety precautions, workplace safety practices, first aid techniques, and fire-fighting techniques. Learning Activities: Discuss safety precautions like proper clothing, designated eating areas, safe lifting, machine operation, and using personal protective equipment (PPE). Research different types of PPE. Show how to handle tools safely. Create plans for staying safe. Explore safe practices such as proper tool storage, keeping walkways clear, and keeping workbenches clean. Look into good lighting and airflow. Develop rules for safety. Check workplaces for safety. Identify common accident situations like not being able to breathe, burns, or cuts. Practice giving first aid through role-playing. Show how to give first aid to someone who is hurt. Sort fires into different types. Use fire-fighting tools like extinguishers, sand, hose reels, and fire blankets. Practice preventing fires. Expected Standard: Personal safety, workplace safety practices, first aid techniques, and fire-fighting techniques are used correctly.
2.0 MATERIALS
Specific Competence: Use timber, manufactured boards, metals, plastics, and other materials in different situations. Learning Activities: Sort wood into soft wood and hard wood. Learn about wood's features. Study how wood is made (cutting down trees, processing logs, drying wood). Find problems in wood. Put chemicals on wood to protect it. Practice planting trees. Identify types of manufactured boards like plywood, blockboard, fibreboard, MDF, and chipboard. Talk about how these boards are used. Apply edge coverings to boards. Make things from boards. Learn about the features of metals. Sort metals into ferrous (containing iron), non-ferrous (not containing iron), and metal mixtures (alloys). Explore how metals like iron, steel, copper, aluminium, zinc, and tin are made. Look at how metals affect the environment. Recycle and reuse metals. Make things from metals. Use metals safely. Learn about the chemistry and structure of plastics. Identify types like thermosetting and thermoplastics. Learn about plastic's features. Study how plastics are shaped. Work with plastics. Look at how plastics affect the environment. Encourage saving resources. Use plastics safely. Explore materials like reeds, grass, leather, ceramics, glass, rubber, fibreglass, and canvas. Research their features. Look at their effects. Make things from these materials. Recycle, reuse, and reduce waste. Use these materials safely. Expected Standard: Timber, manufactured boards, metals, plastics, and other materials are used correctly and in a way that protects the environment.
3.0 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Specific Competence: Apply joining and finishing methods. Learning Activities: Learn about ways to join materials like using nails, screws, bolts, glues, welding, and soldering. Show how to join materials in real life. Explore ways to finish surfaces like painting, varnishing, polishing, and spraying. Show how to do these finishing methods in practice. Expected Standard: Joining and finishing methods are used correctly.
4.0 GRAPHICS COMMUNICATION
Specific Competence: Use drawing tools and instruments, and communicate ideas with freehand sketches. Learning Activities: Draw using tools like rulers, set squares, and compasses. Apply correct lettering, line types, and scaling (making things bigger or smaller to fit the paper). Draw quick sketches of products without using tools. Show design ideas with these sketches. Add notes to sketches. Expected Standard: Drawings are neat and correct. Sketches show ideas clearly.
5.0 SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Specific Competence: Apply principles of electricity/electronics and use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in design & manufacturing. Learning Activities: Study electric current, voltage, and resistance. Learn Ohm's Law (a rule about how current, voltage, and resistance are related). Build simple electrical paths. Use components like resistors, capacitors, and diodes. Explore computer software for design (CAD). Research how computers are used in manufacturing (CAM). Practice design work using computer simulations. Expected Standard: Principles of electricity and electronics are used correctly. ICT tools are used well.
6.0 STRUCTURES
Specific Competence: Build simple structures. Learning Activities: Study different types of structures like frame structures, shell structures, and solid structures. Investigate materials used for building. Test how strong materials are. Build small models of structures. Expected Standard: Structures are built correctly.
7.0 MECHANISMS
Specific Competence: Apply simple machines in problem solving. Learning Activities: Study simple machines like levers, pulleys, gears, cams, and linkages. Show how they work using models. Expected Standard: Simple machines are used correctly to solve problems.
8.0 DESIGN PROCESS
Specific Competence: Apply the design process to solve real-life problems. Learning Activities: Find problems. Create many ideas. Do research. Develop solutions. Make early versions of products (prototypes). Test and check how well they work. Expected Standard: The design process is used successfully.
9.0 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Specific Competence: Apply entrepreneurial skills in production. Learning Activities: Find business opportunities. Plan business ideas. Market products (tell people about them). Calculate the cost of materials. Figure out profits. Keep business records. Expected Standard: Entrepreneurial skills are shown effectively.