High School Block:

Mill and Cabinet 120

Learners create, design and construct a series of products that require mill work used in the cabinet making industry. Learners will engage with both custom and mass production principles. Opportunities will be presented for industry standard safety training, skill development with tools and equipment, and exploration of cabinet making career opportunities.  

This course will support addressing the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals at multiple levels and across disciplines. Learners may explore and investigate topics related to goals:

4. Quality Education

5. Gender Equality

8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

9. Industry Innovation and Infrastructure

11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

12. Responsible Consumption and Production

13. Climate Action. 

Participation in this course will help to prepare learners for entry level employment and post-secondary learning, while creating products for an environmentally sustainable future. 

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

Cabinet Making Design, Manufacturing and Finishing

Career Development

  • Identify Career’s in the cabinet making industry
  • Identify legal and ethical responsibilities as they apply to the industry
  • Develop and practice safe workplace procedures as they apply to the cabinet making industry.

Manufacturing Materials

  • Identify and select a variety of natural materials used in the cabinet making industry.
  • Identify and select processed materials used in the cabinet making industry.

Manufacturing Processes

  • Create and use drawings and plans to develop or construct a finished product.
  • Select and use mechanical and non mechanical fasteners
  • Use a variety of joinery techniques to construct a cabinetry product.
  • Prepare and finish a cabinetry product for proper function.
GRADE 12

Strand: Career Connectedness

Big Idea: Career Preparation

Skill Descriptor: Identify careers in the Cabinet Making industry and explore education requirements.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify and contribute personal strengths as part of a team to completing a mill and cabinet project.
  • Demonstrate effective communication with peers, clients, employers, co-workers.
  • List future career or post secondary opportunities in the cabinet making industry.
  • Create pathways to future opportunities in skilled trades and/or cabinet making industry.
  • Describe technical training, mentorship and/or apprenticeship programmes required to enter into a career in the cabinet making industry.

Big Idea: Professional responsibilities and ethics

Skill Descriptor: Describe the ethical and legal responsibilities of employment in the cabinet making industry.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

  • Interpret contractual documents to determine requirements and obligations for different types of roles.
  • List possible liabilities in contractual documents
  • Determine potential solutions to address legal liabilities.
  • Describe ethical and professional responsibilities of mill and cabinet careers.
  • Demonstrate ethical and professional behaviours appropriate to worksites.
  • Discuss inclusionary practices for employees and employers.

Big Idea: Occupational, Health and Safety

Skill Descriptor: Identify and prevent hazards that could lead to injury, mental and physical illness, and fatalities at work or in their workspace.

Global Competencies: SASM, SGC, CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe potential hazards and employ proper safety procedures in the workplace.
  • Locate first-aid supplies and determine when first aid is required and when hospitalization is required.
  • Locate and engage the emergency action plan in the workplace.
  • Demonstrate responsible behaviour to prevent accidents in personal workspace.
  • Utilize safety training to address workplace hazards and conditions when applicable.
  • Utilize procedures and equipment to complete projects and work in a safe manner.
  • Earn certification and apply understanding of Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) symbols.

Strand: Materials

Big Idea: Natural Materials

Skill Descriptor: Sustainably source and use a variety of woods to create functional and environmentally sustainable objects

Global Competencies: ICE, SGC, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify types of hardwoods (Deciduous) and describe their properties
  • Identify types of softwoods (Coniferous) and describe their properties
  • Determine the most sustainable use when selecting and cutting wood.
  • List wood species native to the local region for use in projects
  • Evaluate and true stock to specified dimensions for use in projects.
  • List applications for a variety of exotic woods related to the properties and function of the object.
  • Describe the environmental impact of using exotic woods and develop adaptive processes to minimize the impact.
  • Engaging with sustainable practices for material sourcing.

Big Idea: Processed Materials

Skill Descriptor: Select and use value added products and processes made and used in the mill and cabinet industry.

Global Competencies: ICE, SGC, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Differentiate between composites and natural materials.
  • Select the optimal materials (composite or natural) to complete a mill and cabinet project sustainably.
  • Construct mill and cabinet projects using processed materials.
  • List the advantages and disadvantages of using sheet materials in mill and cabinet projects.
  • Determine when to use veneer or edge banding to reduce waste and carbon footprint of a mill and cabinet project.

Strand: Manufacturing

Big Idea: Fasteners

Skill Descriptor: Engage with a variety of mechanical fasteners and adhesives to determine the optimal application in the cabinetmaking trade.

Global Competencies: ICE, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Demonstrate the safe and correct installation of a fastener.
  • identify and use the correct fastener for a given project.
  • Identify and determine the size, gage and length of fasteners and matching tool to complete mill and cabinet project.
  • Select the correct adhesive for the project based on its properties and intended use of the object.

Big Idea: Joinery

Skill Descriptor: Engage with practice and application of common methods of joinery in traditional and modern cabinetmaking

Global Competencies: ICE, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Research historical and cultural processes used in cabinet making.
  • Determine the optimal joinery technique for a project based on personal skill, client demands, minimizing waste and intended use of object.
  • Read a design document and create an object with the specified joinery.
  • Select the correct materials for a joinery technique.
  • Determine and safely use the best tool for a chosen joinery

Big Idea: Finishing

Skill Descriptor: Develop and practice a variety of finishing techniques for the creation of environmentally sustainable products

Global Competencies: ICE, SGC, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Investigate historical and cultural uses of finish.
  • Demonstrate appropriate use of sanding and planning tools, and processes to get the desired finish for my project.
  • Demonstrate safe use of various finishing products and procedures to construct a satisfactory product for a client.
  • Demonstrate proper handing use, disposal and storage of chemical finishes.
  • Describe potential safety and environmental hazards when using finishes.
  • Demonstrate environmentally conscious decision-making when selecting more sustainable product finishes.

Big Idea: Design

Skill Descriptor: Create drawings, drafts and plans for constructing mill and cabinet products

Global Competencies: ICE, SASM, SGC, CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Design and draft a plan for a mill and cabinet project.
  • Develop a materials list that others can use to construct and budget for a project.
  • Produce a quality product from working drawings, drafts and client specifications.
  • Create and construct products from models.
  • Apply scale from drawing plans to actual products.
  • Convert from imperial to metric units, and vice-versa, while working with designs and projects.

Big Idea: Tool use and Measurement Skills

Skill Descriptor: Construct a quality final product in the mill and cabinet industry.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Construct a product using standard units of measurement and estimation skills in both metric and imperial units
  • Determine and calculate the quantitiy of materials required to construct a product.
  • Justify your system of measurement appropriate to your project.
  • Use measurement tools safety and appropriately to cabinetry to complete a project to client satisfaction.
  • Apply most appropriate math algorithms (formulas) to estimate material quantities in metric/imperial units and approximate costs of required materials.
  • Justify the most appropriate tool to complete a project with the best outcomes for the constraints.
  • Safely and properly store and maintain tools.
  • Calibrate tools while constructing a project.