This document provides the daily lesson plan and activities for students in a construction foundation course on Day 34. The plan includes: - Reviewing blueprints and tools/equipment, with activities on reading blueprints and identifying exterior finishes for a log cabin. - Learning about types of paints and finishes through reading, note-taking and vocabulary work. Students recommend options for the cabin and estimate costs. - Continuing work on interior painting techniques through reading, presentations and more vocabulary and cost estimation exercises. - Hands-on time at work stations to practice skills like using tools and equipment while working towards proficiency benchmarks.

1. LEARN – DAY 34
Construction Foundation Course

2. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
Content for the day
• Blueprints
• Tools and Equipment

3. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
Materials for the day
• One piece of chart paper for each
Work Team for homework
• Architect’s ruler
• Resource 5.26 – Name That

4. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 1
• Check-in: Shake hands. Remind students:
binders, seating. Start class.
• Review the day: Review the day’s activities
from the list on the board or chart paper.
• Binder check: This can be done at any time
during the day.

5. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 2
5 min: Minute Math, slide 17; read architect’s ruler in
1/4
5 min: Ask Work Teams to take 2 minutes to take out
the Plaza cabin drawings and find the description of
the exterior finish. Finding none, ask Teams to take 1
minute to find out what kind of exterior siding the
cabin has. Aha! This is a log cabin! We need to keep
this choice of exterior siding in mind as we
investigate what kind of exterior finish we might want
to recommend to Mr. Plaza.
Blueprints

6. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 3
15 min: Have Work Teams use this time to do the
following:
• Scan Types of finishes, pp. 947-949.
• Predict the questions for the notes. (Have Teams
check in with you at this point. They should predict:
What are the 2 types of wood finishes? What are the
3 ingredients of paint? What are the 4 types of
paint?)
• Read, take notes, adjust questions as needed.

7. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 4
• Make out vocabulary cards for
• Sheen
• VOCs
• Film-forming finishes
• Pigment
• Binder
• Carrier
• Oil-base paint
• Solvent
• Latex paint
• Primer
• Solid-color stain
• Penetrating finishes
Make a Venn diagram for Latex paint and Oil-base paint.

8. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 5
10 min: Ask pair-shares to read the first
paragraph on p. 950, and, considering all the
information they already have on types of finishes,
write an email to Mr. Plaza recommending a type
of exterior finish for his log cabin, the level of
quality of the material chosen, and, if appropriate,
the color. Be sure to provide multiple reasons for
your recommendations.

9. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 6
10 min: Compare recommendations and rationale by
listing each recommendation and reasons in a chart
similar to the following:
Type of finish Quality of finish Color
Rec A: Rec A: Rec A:
Reasons:
Rec B: Rec B: Rec B:
Reasons:

10. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 7
20 min: As a Work Team, take 15 minutes to prepare a cost
estimate to include in the email to Mr. Plaza. Show the
detail of your estimate, using the model on p. 956. (Hint:
you may need to divide up the tasks.)
Use the last 5 minutes for Work Teams to present their cost
estimates and explain their thinking. Discuss areas where
problems were encountered, e.g., number of coats.
Stretch Break: Everyone stands. You ask Work Team 5 to
present their metric rap. They perform. Everyone claps and
sits down.
.

11. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 8
5 min: Minute Math, slide 18; read architect’s ruler in 1/8
10 min: Now that we have taken care of Mr. Plaza’s exterior
finish, let’s consider the interior.
Jigsaw the reading with the following assignments, giving
Teams 4 minutes to read and prepare a 1-minute
presentation, while other students take notes:
• Supplies and equipment pp. 960-1
• Preparing surfaces, p. 961
• Painting a room, pp. 961-2
• Ceilings and walls, pp. 962-966
• Trim, p. 966
Report out on Cleanup yourself, referring to pictures on p.
953.

12. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 9
5 min: Have pair-shares make out vocabulary
cards for the following:
• paint brush
• paint roller and extension
• paint roller cover
• paint mixing paddle
• edging
• paint guard
Do a quick check for accuracy.

13. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
First and Second Hours (7:30 – 9:30) - 10
15 min: Give Work Teams 12 minutes to
estimate the cost of the interior painting for
Mr. Plaza, using the approach on pp. 964-5.
Use the last 3 minutes to compare thinking
and answers.
5 min: Play Construction Cards
Snack Break (9:30-9:40)

14. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
Third and Fourth Hours (9:40 – 11:30) - 1
100 min: Students continue at work stations, moving
on when they’ve reached at least a basic proficiency
level. Students always complete their vocabulary cards
for each new station before beginning work on
proficiencies. Continue to balance the groups at the
work stations so none are too crowded. Monitor
carefully; initial proficiencies on your file copy and the
student’s copy of the rubric as students demonstrate
competency.
Tools and Equipment– Hands-on-exposure

15. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
Third and Fourth Hours (9:40 – 11:30) - 2
Monitor student proficiency completion, so that you set
up project stations as needed. Monitor individual
students for time management. Remind students that
tomorrow is the last day in shop.
10 min: Play “Name That…” (See Appendix A for
explanation of how to play Name That….) Use Resource
5.26.
Reflection.
Out the door:Model Notes,Reflection, binders on the
shelf, shake hands.

16. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
AFTER HOURS - 1
Homework: As a Work Team, choose the kitchen
design you like best and do a cabinet layout similar
to the one on p. 785 on a piece of chart paper. Note
where the upper and lower cabinets are drawn on
the model. Make your own list of cabinet choices
and number them appropriately, using W for wall
and B for base followed by the width and length (e.g.
W-3618 is a wall cabinet that is 36” horizontally and
18” vertically; define any other abbreviations such
as pantry, dishwasher, stove, range hood, etc.)

17. Week Seven: Day 34 (Thursday)
AFTER HOURS - 2
Self-check for quality:
• Base cabinets shown within wall cabinets?
• Appropriate places and markings for sink cabinets,
appliances?
• Cabinet and appliance width add up to length of
wall?
• Cabinet list included?
• Cabinets appropriately identified with letter (or
name) and number?
• Open Computer Lab

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