Bookends (the real ones)
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I have an awesome “shop mama,” an extraordinary female Manufacturing Technology teacher at one of my middle schools who works hard to be sure students leave her class with the skills they will need in their personal lives or in advanced classes at the high school. Coinciding with the launch of Bookends on the Booklist Online website, she filled my library display cases with student created wood and metal bookends! I wish I had a set for myself. Oh, yeah, my shelves are too full of books to have space for a bookend!
If you post a comment, I’ll be sure to pass it on to the teacher, Robin Mamo. Teachers deserve and need all the praise they can get. You can click on over to my school web pages to see the full report on and close-up pictures of the bookend awesomeness!
This Manufacturing Technology 1 project gives students an opportunity to learn a combination of wood and metal tools, machines, and processes. Students learn how to use a power miter saw, a drill press, and a hand held electric drill, a scroll saw, a metal shear, a try square, and wood and metal abrasive materials. Measurement and pattern layout are an important part of this project, as well as finishing techniques.
Nice job, Mrs. Mamo and Harbor Lights Middle School Students (Holland, MI)!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Y’know, if they’d offered the chance to make bookends back when I was taking that class, I might have actually held on to something from it! (I did use my spatula for a couple of summers on the grill – I wonder where it went?) Some very cool work there!
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hi
Couldn’t resist commenting on these–how wonderful! It’s nice to see kids creating useful projects that are fun too. Kudos!