GENERAL LESSON PLANNING

TEACHER: Pauline Pounall-Douglas

SCHOOL: Tacius Golding High
SUBJECT: Textiles Clothing and Fashion
GENERAL TOPIC: Fashion for The Individuals And The Home
TOPIC: The Sewing Machine Duration: 16 sessions - 2
weeks
GRADE: 11
DATE: September 12 – 30, 2022

Previous Knowledge: Have knowledge of the various type of sewing machines (grade 10)

General Objective: at the end of this lesson, students should be able to operate the sewing
machine

Catering for individual differences: Upper stream students are expected to move more
expediently incorporating both theory and practical expeditiously. Lower streamed students will
be giving more time for practical applications with more one to one attention.

Specific Objectives:

1. State the various categories of sewing machines

2. Differentiate between the industrial and domestic sewing machines
3. Identify the Parts of the sewing machine
4. State the use of various parts of the sewing machine
5. Troubleshoot problems of the sewing machine
6. Thread the sewing (upper and lower) (practical exercise)

Condition: Given oral information; handout; demonstration; practical activities and YouTube
videos

Content Summary:

1. Stating the various categories of sewing machines, namely: Manual, Electrical and
computerized
2. Differentiating between the industrial domestic sewing machines: industrial can handle
more sewing projects in a shorter period of time as opposed to the domestic sewing
machine. The industrial sewing machine is stronger than than the domestic sewing
machine
3. Identifying parts of the sewing machine: Teacher will take the students to the sewing
machine used in class (20U and 20C) to show all upper and under threading parts of the
sewing machines along with its peripheral parts.
 4. Stating the use of various parts of the sewing machine: Upper threading: thread
stand/spool pin and guides; thread tension disk; take up lever; needle screw bar, needle,
presser foot; slide plate; pressure plate/needle plate; Peripheral parts: Bed/table; presser
foot lever; pressure regulator; hand wheel; treadle/motor control; reverse lever; stitch
width/length adjuster. Under Threading: Bobbin tension disk; bobbin winder; bobbin and
bobbin case.
5. Troubleshooting problems of the sewing machine: Under-stitch puckering: - loose thread
tension disk; Skip stitches: - incorrect needle; spaces in the seam – incorrect stitch length;
bobbin falling out of case: - incorrect placement of bobbin in the case; Needle jam; -
thread or fabric is in the hand wheel; Top stitches are loose: - bobbin tension is loose;
Fabric yarns keep pulling up; - needle is blunt; needle isn’t picking up the bobbin thread:
- needle isn’t positioned correctly; Needle breaking: - incorrect bobbin placement, thread
tension too tight, needle is bent.
6. (Practical exercise)Threading the sewing machine: Distinquish between upper an lower
threading.

Presentation of Lesson

Introduce lesson by asking students what they know about the sewing machine and how many of
them have one; also how many of them knew how to use the sewing machine. After getting the
answers; proceed with stating the objectives and proceed with the lesson. Objectives 3 and 4
will be taught at the sewing machine.

Activities:

1. Students will be asked to identify the parts of the sew and state their function.
2. Fill out a trouble-shooting form to show they understand how to identify and solve
problems that can be encountered while sewing.
3. Paper test

Week 1

Evaluation 1.

Objectives 1-3 (Objectives 1 – 4) Lesson went well. Students were very enthusiastic about the
lesson and were very participative. Students freely stated what they knew about the sewing
machine and were corrected where necessary.

Week 2

Evaluation 1
(Objectives 3 – 4) Lesson went well with only two students present. Objectives were
enthusiastically carried out by each student. There was however challenges s the students had
difficulty remembering the parts of the sewing machine.

Objective 5 Students were asked to revise on theirown how to trouble shoot problems they can
encounter using the sewing machine on given hand-out.

Objective 6: Threading of the sewing machine could not be done due to a lack of the lighting in
the sewing lab.

Evaluation 2:

Paper Test and trouble-shooting form to be administrated at a later date