Handout 5.5: Tool Kit Guide and Count Sheet

Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______ Station: ______

Directions: Fill in Part 1 before the kit is opened. Fill in Part 2 as each tool is held up, using the photo taped inside your kit lid. Copy the six rules in Part 3 and sign the bottom. Part 4 is the scenarios. Part 5 is the station count sheet; it stays on the station clipboard all unit, not in your folder.

The one sentence to remember: a needle or a pin is in the pin cushion, in the kit, or in your hand. There is no fourth place.

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Part 1: What do you already know?

Write every sewing tool you can name and what you think it does. Do not open the kit.

Part 2: The station kit, tool by tool

Two facts to write down:

Needle sizes run ______________. A size 5 needle is __________ than a size 9.

Fabric shears cut ______________ only, because __________________________________.

Part 3: The six needle rules

Copy them. You will be asked to write them from memory on the exit card.

1. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________________
6. _______________________________________________________________________

The count-out and count-in routine, six steps:

1. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________________
6. _______________________________________________________________________

On machine days, three more steps close every machine (from Handout 05.10):

1. Presser foot ______________.
2. Power ______________.
3. Chair ______________.

And the broken needle rule: a broken needle is reported and handed to the teacher, both pieces, flat on an open palm. Never the trash, never the floor.

Station agreement

I have read the six needle rules and the count routine. I know where a needle and a pin are allowed to be. I know that breaking a rule at a station costs the station its work time for the day. I will count out and count in. On machine days I will run the machine close-down routine.

Signed: ______________________________ Date: ______________

Part 4: Three unsafe stations

For each one: what rule was broken, what could happen, and what the station should do instead.

Scenario A. A student finishes early, sticks the needle in the arm of the chair, and goes to the bathroom.

Rule broken: ___________________________________________________________

What could happen: _____________________________________________________

What they should do: ____________________________________________________

Scenario B. Two students are cutting. One hands the shears across the table blades first, because the other one asked fast.

Rule broken: ___________________________________________________________

What could happen: _____________________________________________________

What they should do: ____________________________________________________

Scenario C. A station's count comes up 9 needles instead of 10. One student says "it is fine, I will find it tomorrow."

Rule broken: ___________________________________________________________

What could happen: _____________________________________________________

What they should do: ____________________________________________________

Part 5: Station count sheet (stays on the station clipboard)

Station number: ______ Starting kit: ______ needles, ______ pins

Fourteen rows, because there are fourteen days with needles and pins out: the ten sewing days of Topic 5.2 (days 121 to 130) and the four project build days (days 137 to 140). Day 141 is the gallery and nothing sharp comes out, so it has no row.

Shears, every day the shears are on the table: two per station kit, six in the room. They are counted with the needles and pins and go back in the kit blades closed. If a pair is missing, the station does not leave either.

If the count does not match: nobody leaves this station. Look on the table, on the chairs, in the work, on the floor under the table, and in every pocket and cuff. If it is still missing, hand this sheet to the teacher, stand back, and the teacher sweeps with the magnet. Write what happened in the notes.

Notes: _______________________________________________________________

Exit card (tear off or write on an index card)

1. The six needle rules, as many as you can write in 90 seconds:

1. The one rule you think people in this room will break first:

1. One tool you want to use most: