Name of teaching material
What is balancing sewing machine thread tension self-made product
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| Target |
Students in middle and high schools Students having difficulties in vision, understanding or/and visual perception Students having hand control difficulties |
|---|---|
| Disability category | visual impairment deaf and hard of hearing mentally challenged physically challenged health impairment emotional disturbance developmental disabilities other |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | technical arts and home economics |
| Specific purposes |
The aid for understanding balancing sewing machine thread tension helps students gain: Knowledge and skills: Students gain understanding of the mechanism of balancing thread tension before they use a sewing machine. Thinking, judging and expressing experiences: Students become capable of judging the thread tension balance by observing the stiches when they actually use a sewing machine. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
* Threads of different colors and thickness are used to compensate for visual impairment, organize information and thus facilitate understanding. * Thread tension balances are described in a personified manner to promote students’ understanding. |
| Expected effects and results |
* Unlike hand sewing, a sewing machine uses needle thread (or the upper or top thread) and bobbin thread (or the bottom thread). This aid displays how the two threads combine together and form actual stitches. It can be used to teach students how it works before they actually use a sewing machine. Thorough explanation helps easing students who are afraid of the needle or/and the movement of the sewing machine. * An ultimate aim is that students can adjust sewing machine tension by themselves by understanding the structure of thread tension. For example, students become capable of judging that it is better to loosen the tension of the needle thread when they see the needle thread being too tight. |
| How to use |
Materials: * Fleece fabric (It does not fray easily.) * Yarn needle * Yarn (in two different colors: one for representing the needle thread and the other for showing the bobbin thread) (In the photos, red yarn is used for the needle thread, and green yarn is employed for the bobbin thread so as to match the description in the textbook.) How to use: 1) Punch some holes in fleece fabric at regular intervals to facilitate the yarn needle penetrate through the fabric. 2) Form stiches using the holes. Pass the needle thread through a hole, catch the bobbin thread and return the needle thread through the hole. 3) It would be easier for students to understand by explaining the tension by pulling or loosening the two threads and personalizing the threads such as “if the needle thread and the bobbin thread are good friends, they cross neatly in the middle of the fabric; but if one of them is stubborn, they do not cross in the middle and the thread is easy to pull out.” |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students | The aid can be used for students not only in special needs education schools but also in general middle schools. |
- Informant OISHI Kyoko, Special Needs Education School for the Physically Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords home economics, sewing machine, sewing, personification, visual perception, physical disabilities
- Created 2024-06-07 13:49:47
- Updated 2024-06-07 13:50:48