Packer - Fun Activities - Manufacturing and Production

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Poetry and Packers?
Packer Researching Activity
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Assembly Line
Classroom Paper Recycling

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

1. Watch this video on the life of a packer Video / packager
https://youtu.be/O45iY86IXbU

2. You are to write a poem on the life of a packer. See the different types of poems you can select from the website below:

Poetry
(Source: Grammarly)

3. Create two different poems using two different methods.

4. Submit to your teacher.

Packer Researching Activity

Middle

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

1. Packers need to have good skills at recording information and entering into a computer database. Go to the following website: Open Universities

and record the following information:

The description of a packer.
The average salary.
The skills required to work in this industry.
The percentage of males and females working full time and part time in this industry.
The percentages of the top three regions of employment.

2. Create a graph using Microsoft excel on the employment of males and females working in this industry, full and part time. Here is a Tutorial on how to create a graph on Excel.

3. Create graphs on the top three regions of employment.

4. Answer the following questions based on your graphs.
a) What gender works the most in the packing industry?
b) What type of work is the most common in this industry? (full-time or part-time)
c) What state has the highest region of employment?

5. Now research this website: Labour Market Insights [soon to be replaced by Jobs & Skills - 2023]

Find the answers to the following questions:
a) Which states/territories have the lowest employment in this area?
b) How many (in percentage) in the career path of packing have completed a Bachelor degree?
c) What is the most common age group in the packing industry?
d) How important (in percentage) is it to have good listening skills in this profession?
e) How important (in percentage) is to have good coordination skills in this profession?
f) How many workers are employed in this occupation?

6. Reflection

Reflection: Would you like a job as a Packer and Packager? Why? Why not?

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Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

1. Read this article from How Stuff Works Reading

2. Write down what the first 12 digits represent.

3. Note down what sums you need to do to get the check digit.

4. Find an object with a bar code around you and do the calculations to find the check digit. Check and see if it is the same as on the barcode.

5. Make up your own 12 digit barcode and calculate what the check digit would be.

Assembly Line (developed by Try Engineering.org)

This activity is also at Quality Assurance Inspector

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Cooperative Learning Activity

Teacher

Local Copy: Student Worksheets

Full Lesson Plan at Try Engineering

This lesson demonstrates the power of mass production. Students work in teams to design, construct, test, and redesign an assembly line to manufacture a product as quickly and efficiently as possible to meet the quality control criteria.

Assembly Line

Overview

Students work individually to assemble a product and then work in teams to design, construct, test, and redesign an assembly line process whose product must meet specific quality control criteria. Students reflect and have a classroom discussion comparing the two approaches.

Assembly Line Lesson Plan Overview
https://youtu.be/ICOdnVUu67Q

How It’s Made Lego
https://youtu.be/mwxCkmQKXkA

Classroom Paper Recycling (developed by Try Engineering)

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Cooperative Learning Activity

Teacher

This lesson focuses on how engineers and others have developed and improved the manufacturing of recycled paper. Students work in teams to recycle and manufacture their own recycled paper while learning how recycled paper is manufactured on a larger scale in paper facilities. Student teams evaluate current processes for creating paper and develop improvements to the procedure.

Learn about recycled paper manufacturing.
Learn about re-engineering.
Learn how engineering can help solve society’s challenges.
Learn about teamwork and problem solving.

Local Copy: Lesson Plan + Student Worksheet [PDF 19 pages]

Local Copy: Student Worksheet [Word doc 8 pages]