What would the scissors say on screen?
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Checking on the tools and materials that are used
It is important that you are familiar with the tools and materials that are used by the young children for whom your class is designing the safety software. You should check with those who teach the reception class and the Year 1 children.
The following list is useful as a checklist as possible tools and materials that they might use:
- Tools for cutting: scissors; junior hacksaw; sawing board
- Tools for making holes: paper punch
- Tools for joining: stapler; paper fasteners
- Materials: paper; card; wooden strip; wooden dowel; Plasticine; thin sheet plastic (e.g. plastic from containers)
- Adhesives: PVA glue; glue spreaders; Pritt Sticks
- Tools for colouring: coloured pencils; felt tip pens; paint and paintbrushes.
If possible your class should watch younger children use these tools and materials and discuss any difficulties the youngsters are having so that they can develop safety software that promotes safe and effective use of tools. In this way the software produced will not simply be a list do's and don'ts but give constructive guidance.