1. Process Journal
MEASURING AND MARKING OUT DAY
Wednesday March 23rd 2011
What were the tools you used, materials and steps followed
In Today’s Design Technology class we started our Movie it
project. We first had to choose what kind of wood we wanted to work
with, the thick one or the thin one. This depended on how we wanted our
toy to look, but at the same time we had to remember that theses toys
are for kids and that they can’t carry heavy woods. After choosing the
wood, I started drawing my snail’s body on there. In order to do this
drawing I used a pencil. After this I had to draw the round shell of the
snail too. So I made one shell on the same wood I had made my snail’s
body. In order to make a perfect circle, I used a compass with a pencil.
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I am drawing the snail’s I first tried using the round
body with a pencil on the jig for my snail’s shell, but
wood. it was a bit too big.
So I then started using a
compass to make a perfect
circle.

2. What’s next in the process?
Today, was the measuring and marking out day which I had
completed, the next step that I will be moving on in next class of Design
Technology is cutting. I will have to do a lot of cutting. I would have to
snail’s body, the two shells. This is going to take me a lot of time, as this
is the main part of the project, the snail’s body shape. In order to make
sure my toy turns out as I had planned out, I will have to devote a good
amount of time in the cutting of my body and shells shapes of the snail.
Emotions –how you felt about the day and why
Today’s class was enjoying like always. Going in Design Technology
lab can never be boring or frustrating for me, I am always excited
whenever I go in there as I always get to learn something new. I was
excited because obviously I had never made a moving toy before, and this
was my first time I was focusing on each and every step that would lead
me to my finish product of a moving toy. I liked my design of the snail,
and the idea of shells moving on top if it, I think that would be
interesting for kids, which is why I was so excited for this project. I was
a bit scared though, because my design was turning difficult, and the
construction part would be hard, because when Mr. Anderson was
explaining to me how I would have to make my design, I was just worried
if I would be able to do so much. But overall, this class was fun and I
enjoyed it thoroughly.
Learner Profile and A.O.I connections
In Today’s Design Technology class I was an inquirer. This is
because I still did not have a clear idea of how my toy was going to look
like, how all the parts are going to fit together and at the same time how
will the parts move. And so in order to clear my doubts I had to go Mr.
Anderson a couple of time. After he explained me thorough process of
the construction I finally understood it. The Area of Interaction I could
link today’s class would be with Human Ingenuity, because obviously
anything we make in Design Technology class is the student’s original idea,
and this was the beginning of a new toy I was going to make, with my
original idea.

3. CUTTING THE BODY DAY
Thursday March 24th 2011
What I did and Why?
In today’s design technology class, I started cutting the shape of
my snail’s body. I had already drawn it last class so all I had to do was to
cut the shape. In order to cut the shape I had to fix the wooden piece in
a bench hook, and then I used a coping saw to cut the curvy shape of the
snail’s body. At first it was a bit difficult to use, because I was not use to
turning the coping saw as my snail’s body was curvy, so I then asked Mr.
Anderson and he told me that in order to get the curvy shape of the
snail’s body I would have to turn it while cutting it.
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Before cutting my snail, I
As you can see in this had to fix my wooden piece
image, I am using a coping firm in the bench hook.
saw to cut the body of my
snail.
This is how my snail’s body
looked after today’s class.

4. What’s next in the process?
The next step in this process of building a moving toy would be to
cut the shell of the snail. I have already drawn one shell on a wooden
piece, after cutting that shell; I will be drawing another shell with the
same size on another piece of wood. Then I would cut both of those shells
so that they could be stuck together in my moving toy.
Emotions –how you felt about the day and why
In today’s design technology class I had a fun like all the other
classes. I felt satisfied and contended today, because I was down to the
first step of the construction of my moving toy: to cut the snail’s body. I
was happy as well, because this was something I had never done before,
last year I had a made a stool, but I had never mad e a moving toy and
this very exciting fro me, since it was the first time. I felt like I had
complete a huge mission of cutting the snail’s body although it was just
the beginning, this is because I am not really good with coping saws. Last
year I had broken a couple of them, and I was really afraid that I break
one during this project to, but thankfully nothing like that happened as I
had my full concentration and focus towards my work and I did not get
distracted. I made sure I follow the rules of using a coping saw and that
is how I did not break it.
Learner Profile and A.O.I connections
In Today’s design technology class the learner profiles I followed
today was being a knowledgeable person. This is because when I was using
a coping saw I was afraid, but I always seeked the assistance of Mr.
Anderson so that whenever I had a difficulty it would not result in me
breaking the coping saw. Whenever he instructed me what to do, made
sure I followed those instructions in order to cut my snail’s body. Another
learner profile I followed was that of being a caring person, because
Marley had asked me for help a couple of time, this is because she is new
to design technology and me being a student for a continuous 2 years, was
experienced, and so I helped her solve her few problems. The Area of
Interaction I followed in today’s class was that of health and social
education, because as always I wore an apron, to make sure that no paint
or harmful design Technology material fall or spill on my clothes.

5. CUTTING THE SNAIL’S SHELL
Monday March 28th 2011
What I did and Why?
In Today’s Design Technology class, I finally cut my shell. The
circular part. It took a lot of manpower, and energy to do so. After that I
had a few bumpy parts that Mr. Anderson told me I could cut, so that I
would not have to do a lot of disc-sanding. After getting my first piece of
shell done, I had to do another one. I used a compass to get an accurate
circle. I then positioned my wood straight in the bench hook and used a
coping saw to cut it.
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I used a coping saw to cut This is how my snail’s shell
my circular shell shape for looked like after I cut it
my snail’s body with a coping saw.
I then started to cut the
second shell of my snail, in
order to do this I first
positioned it parallel to the
benches on a bench hook.

6. What’s next in the process?
Now that I have cut my first shell, I have moved on to the next
step, which is measuring and marking out my second shell. Since I had
some time at the end of today’s lesson I had already accomplished that
task. The next thing that comes in this process of making the moving toy
is to cut the second shell. In order to do this I will use a coping saw.
After cutting the second shell I will move on to the next step which will
be to start measuring and marking out the wheels.
Emotions –how you felt about the day and why
In Today’s Design technology class I had fun cutting my shell,
because I had never cut a circular shape before, so this was a good
experience for me. I was doing well with the coping saw, but obviously I
had forgotten the most important rule when using a coping saw which is to
never twist it when cutting the shape. And that is what went wrong in
today’s lesson. I was so determined to cut the shape, that by accident I
kind twisted the blade and it broke. I was sad as I thought I would not
repeat the same mistake I had done in my previous years of design
technology. But I guess practice makes a man perfect, I have learnt one
thing that no matter how close you are to completing your task, never let
loose until the end. That is how I will not break my coping saw from next
time, if I am focused and have my full concentration on using it correctly
and accurately.
Learner Profile and A.O.I connections
In Today’s Design Technology class the learner profile I followed
was being reflective. After breaking the coping saw, I tried to find out
the reason why I broke out. When I figured it out, I still used the coping
saw and made sure I use it in the correct way so that I don’t make the
mistake of breaking it again. The second learner profile I followed today
was of being a thinker, because when I was cutting my circular shape, it
was a difficult job for me as it was not a shape with straight sides, it
took me a few tries with the tools in order to get it right, but eventually
I got used to it. I had to think a lot of how to position my wooden piece
on the vice so that I can cut straight through my wooden piece with a
coping saw. The Area Of Interaction I followed in today’s class was being
environmental, as when I cut my circular shapes I had a huge piece of
wood left and instead of throwing it in the garbage I conserved it by
keeping it in the other wooden box, where other classes could reuse it for
other subjects.

7. CUTTING AND GLUING THE SNAIL’S SHELL
Wednesday March 30th 2011
What I did and Why?
In Today’s Design Technology class I used the class extremely
productively. I first continued cutting the second shell of my snail’s body.
In order to cut the shell I first positioned it straight in a bench hook and
the proceeded it to cut it with a coping saw. After cutting the shell, I
had two circular wooden shapes; I then glued them both together with
the help of PVA glue. In order to hold it strongly together, I nailed 3
nails at either side of the shell. In order to do this I used a hammer. Mr.
Anderson told that it would be better if I hammer the nails deep in the
wood as that would hold both the pieces of wood strongly together. I did
this with the help of a chisel. I first positioned it on top of the nail, and
then I hammered it with a hammer. After gluing these two pieces
together, I then proceeded to move on to the next step, which was
rounding the edges. My circular shapes had a few sharp edges and so I
moved on to the next step, which was to disc-sand it. I wore my goggles,
and using the disc-sander to turn my shell into a perfect circle. After
that I move don to the next step, which was to start cutting my wheels.
This was done quickly as the wheels were already marked. I put the drill
bit in the pedestral drill, and started drilling my wheels. After today’s
class I was done with my small wheels too.
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I used PVA glue I then nailed three nails at After that, I disc-sanded my
to hold the snail’s either side of the shell so shell so that it could be a
shell that it could hold the shell perfect circle.
strongly together.
I then measured and
marked out the wheels This is how my wheel
and started using the looked like after today’s
pedestral drill to cut the class.
wheels.

8. What’s next in the process?
The next step in the construction of my moving toy would be too
start measuring and marking out the big wheels. I will do this the next
lesson. I think after measuring and marking out these wheels, I will have
plenty of time left to cut these wheels too. After cutting these wheels, I
will have to cut the axles.
Emotions –how you felt about the day and why
I enjoyed today’s class A LOT because there were a variety of new
things I did today that helped me get a better understanding of design
technology. And more than ever I was satisfied, as for a lot of classes
the only thing I was doing was cutting with a coping saw, and today was
the class I moved on from that step went on with other processes. I felt
like I had accomplished a huge task after cutting my two circular wooden
shapes. This was because the cutting part was difficult as it was done
with a coping saw, and I am not that good at handling coping saws, so
cutting these shapes was a big task for me, and on my way I had also
broken one. In Today’s design technology class I also felt satisfied and
extremely happy because I had done quite a lot of work. I had glued both
my shells together, I disc-sand them. I was also done cutting my 4 small
wheels. This gave me a feeling of happiness as I started enjoying this
project more than ever, since getting things done was difficult but at the
end of the day my hard work paid off.
Learner Profile and A.O.I connections
In Today’s Design Technology the learner profile I followed was of
being knowledgeable, as I had used different processes in order to
different types of works in today’s class. When using the pedestral drill
to drill my wheels, I had to use my knowledge that Mr. Anderson had
given us about pedestral drill. I used it well, as my wheels turned out
good. The Area of Interaction I followed in today’s class was Approaches
To learning, as I had learnt quite a few new processed of working on
Design technology projects today’s. I made sure I grasp this new
information so that it could help me for the future.

9. MEASURING AND CUTTING THE BIG WHEELS
Thursday March 31st 2011
What I did and Why?
In Today’s Design technology class I moved on to the next step of
the making of my moving toy. I started to measure and mark out the big
wheels that would be attached to the small wheels I had cut in the
previous class. In order to cut the big wheels I had to first mark out the
measurements. I used a compass to get a perfect circle in the middle of
the wood, leaving some space at the corners so that when cutting, the
drill won’t get stuck and would go straight through the wood. I measured
the circles with a pencil. After measuring the first circle I used the same
measurements to do the rest four. Now, that I was done with the
measuring and marking out part of the big wheels I had to cut them now.
Like always I had my apron on. I wore my safety goggles as a lot of small
pieces of wood would be flying out the drill and so my eyes had to be
protected. I tied up my hair as it was risky to leave it open. The I
carefully fixed my wooden piece in the clamp, making sure the drill bit
was spot on the check mark I had made. I had one firm hand on the clamp
making sure the wooden piece does not move and I slowly drilled all the
four circles. I did this on the pedestral drill with a drill bit fixed in it.
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This is me using the This is how my wheel
pedestral drill to cut the big looked like after today’s
wheels class
What’s next in the

10. process?
I have cut all the main parts and functions of my moving toy. The
last part would be to measure and mark out the axles. This would not be a
difficult job and would not take a lot of time as it is pretty easy. This
would give me more time to work on my next step which would be to start
filing the snail’s body parts. I know I need to get the perfect shape of
the snail’s ears. In order to do this I would have to use a coping saw. Then
I would file the body parts to give it the accurate shape I originally
planned for.
Emotions –how you felt about the day and why
In Today’s Design technology class I felt like I had accomplished a
big task. Although, it was an easy talk that did not take a lot of my time.
I felt good that I was already done cutting most of my body parts except
the axles which could be done in no time. I also enjoyed today’s class
because I had used it productively and did not waste my time talking or
chatting with friends. This is because I knew that I had extra work to do,
since I was one of the only students who had to cut an extra set of four
wheels. I knew I had to work hard and made sure I was not left behind.
In Today’s class I for the first time was confident in using the pedestral
drill to cut my wheels. This is because in the previous class I had to use
them to cut the small wheels and they were four of them so I had good
practice. In Today’s class I was set and I knew how each function worked
and I felt confident enough to start doing it.
Learner Profile and A.O.I connections
In Today’s Design Technology class I followed the learner profile
of being knowledgeable. This is because I already had the knowledge of
how to use the pedestral drill. I knew I had to cut my big wheels today
and I used my knowledge about the pedestral drill to get done with my
task efficiently. I made sure I ask my teacher if I had any doubt but
form my previous experience I was well aware of the important functions
and carried on with my work smoothly. The Area of Interaction that I
followed in today’s class was health and social education. This is because
since I had to use the pedestral drill today ai made sure I have my apron
on so that my clothes are unharmed. My goggles are on so no dust
particles could go inside and I made sure my hair is tied back so that they
don’t get tangled in the drill. I cared about my health.