Syllabus
Natural materials, their properties, processing technologies.Paper and paper products - properties, their evaluation, manual processing techniques.Modeling and tiling materials - properties important for selecting suitable types, selected workflows.Overview of textile materials. Evaluation of properties of selected materials and verification of selected techniques for processing of rough and flat textile materials.Wood and other non-metallic materials - overview, evaluation and processing methods.Small metallic materials - fibers, foils, properties important for material selection and processing.Fundamentals of project activity.Safety and hygiene at work with different materials.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to contribute to the development of adequate students' abilities to enhance the personality of children in pre-school education in the sense of their polytechnic literacy.
The content is mainly focused on basic knowledge about selected materials, their used properties and technologies of processing using appropriate technical means. Teaching is further oriented on the understanding of technological principles.