Before we left on the break me and Jiapsi showed some freshman how to use the lapidary to make jewelry we did not have to much time to explain but I believe that most of them were really engaged. First we should them the proper way to use the table saw. We had them were a lab coat and goggles so they would not get wet or have shards of rock thrown back at them. We told them that they needed to have the plastic cover over the saw down so nothing would fall into the saw or get cough on it. We had some of them try to carefully cut there bigger rocks to a rough shape of what they wanted. Then with the shaping wheel on the lapidary they started to shape their rocks to the way they wanted it, whether that was squaring it of or rounding it off the edges. I think we helped them to better understand the tools as well as how to keep the equipment in good condition. I had fun helping them.
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Mario AlexanderI am a 10th grade Student at High Tech High. Archives
May 2015
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