Tools: Posters for Shop and Technology Classes

These posters make all the tools and equipment used in workshop and technology classes visible at a glance. Organized by area, they show tools for woodworking, general-purpose tools, and tools for metalworking and electronics, each with a picture and name. Hung up in the workshop, they serve as a reference guide: anyone looking for a tool while working or who has forgotten its name can simply look at the wall. The posters for each area can also be handed out to students as an overview. They are suitable for primary school from grade 3 up to grade 8 in lower secondary school.

This is included:

• Handout: ideas for use by the teacher
• Woodworking: two posters with 32 tools, such as a half-round rasp, Japanese saw, Forstner bit, and F-clamp
• General-purpose: four posters with 62 tools
• Metalworking: one poster with 16 tools
• Electronics: one poster with 9 tools, such as a soldering iron, wire stripper, and multimeter

Ideas for use in workshop and technology classes

The teacher names a tool, and the students point it out on the poster, or vice versa. This also makes the posters suitable for short review sessions.

Learning objectives and skills promoted

• Reference: independently find the name of a tool
• Technical terms: name tools using the correct term
• Categorize: assign tools to an area

From the same series, there are also worksheets, a memory game, dominoes, bingo, Match!, and Don't Say It!, as well as the tool flashcards; all together in the tools resource pack.

Have fun trying them out!

Your vlamingo team