Slide outline for Lesson 5.1, one day, twelve slides. The real objects on the front table do most of the work today; the slides are the frame and the backup. [Sal: photograph your own PPE box once and the slides are permanent.]
Make It, Mend It, Wear It
- Unit 5 starts today
- Four weeks: what we wear and why, hand sewing, smart shopping, and one upcycle project
- Nobody touches a needle for four more days
- Today: what clothing has to do
Teacher notes
Image: a split picture, one side a folded stack of everyday clothes, the other side a sewing kit with a needle, pins, and thread.
Tell them the shape of the unit in thirty seconds. Students who think this unit is only sewing will check out on day one if you do not.
Do now
- It is 38 degrees tomorrow, windy, and it might rain
- Write the five things you would wear, top to bottom
- Circle the one you would be sorriest to leave home without
- Three minutes
Teacher notes
Image: a thermometer reading 38 degrees next to a bare tree with wind lines.
Same foot, two shoes
- One of these is not allowed in this room
- Also not allowed: a restaurant kitchen, a construction site, a hospital, the stage crew
- Same person. Same foot. Why does a shoe get a rule?
Teacher notes
Image: a flip-flop and a closed-toe sneaker side by side on a table.
Hold up the actual shoes. Take two guesses, do not confirm yet. The answer arrives on slide 5.
Clothing has four jobs
- Protect the body
- Fit the activity
- Fit the setting
- Say something
Teacher notes
Image: four small icons in a row, a coat, a running figure, a building, and a speech bubble.
Students write these in Part 1 of the handout with their own examples, not the ones on the slide. Say that job 4 is tomorrow's whole lesson and park it.
Job 1, protect
- From cold, sun, rain, heat, sparks, cuts, chemicals
- Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is clothing whose only job is protection
- The state's line: workers wear protective clothing and gear when they use tools, machines, and equipment
Teacher notes
Image: an oven mitt, safety goggles, a work glove, and a hard hat laid out on a table.
This is the slide the shoe question answers. A closed-toe shoe is PPE: a dropped pan, a dropped iron, a dropped pair of shears.
Job 2, fit the activity
- The body has to move: run, bend, reach, kneel, climb
- Clothing that stops the movement is the wrong clothing
- Try this: what job could you not do wearing a work glove?
Teacher notes
Image: a heavy leather work glove next to a sewing needle and thread.
Pass the glove around and hold up the needle. The answer teaches job 2 in five seconds.
Job 3, fit the setting
- Every place has an expectation, spoken or not
- Home, school, a job, a wedding, a funeral, a court, a field
- The state's line: compare the similarities and differences among home, school, community, and work environments
Teacher notes
Image: four doorways in a row labeled home, school, work, community.
The PPE walk
- We are going to the front table
- For each item, three questions: what does it protect, what happens without it, where is it required
- Fill in Part 2 of the handout as we go
Teacher notes
Image: a table laid out with an apron, an oven mitt, goggles, a hair tie, two shoes, a work glove, a vest, and a helmet.
Twenty seconds per item, eight items. Two volunteers model the apron and the hair tie.
Match the clothing to the situation
- Five cards around the room, one minute each
- Head, body, legs, feet. Do not forget the feet.
- Then the sentence: "This works because the weather is ___, the activity is ___, and the setting is ___."
Teacher notes
Image: five numbered cards on classroom walls, labeled interview, construction site, wedding, soccer game, cold walk.
Pairs. Rotate on the bell. Push on footwear and weather at every card.
Dress codes, three real ones
- A restaurant kitchen: closed-toe non-slip shoes, hair back, no loose jewelry
- A hospital: scrubs, no long nails, no rings in a sterile room
- This school: [Sal: paste the exact wording from the handbook]
- Sort each rule: safety, sanitation, image, team identity. Most are more than one.
Teacher notes
Image: three uniformed figures, a line cook, a nurse, and a student, drawn simply with no faces.
Keep this to the reasoning. Do not run a debate about this building's code. If the earlier hand vote was high, give this school's line ninety seconds and move.
A rule can protect and still cost something
- Money: non-slip shoes cost 40 dollars and you only need them at work
- Comfort: a hair net in August
- Self-expression: no visible tattoos, no jewelry
- Both things are true at once. That is the honest version.
Teacher notes
Image: a balance scale, one side labeled "what it protects," the other "what it costs."
This room's rule, starting next week
- Closed-toe shoes
- Hair back
- Sleeves clear at the sewing stations and at the iron
- Same standard as the kitchen. I will tell you the day before we need it.
Teacher notes
Image: the sewing station kit photo with a pair of closed-toe shoes and a hair tie next to it.
Exit card: one protective item you will wear here and what it protects; the situation where your first outfit was wrong; one question. Three students read line one.