Lesson 6.13

(Covering the sections titled:  “Metal casting”  and  “Metal forging,”  pages 120 and 121.)

Important words used in this lesson:

Forge is a very hot oven used to melt metal into shapes.

Mold is the form made of clay that shapes the hot metal.

Bellows is a tool used to blow air into a smelting oven and a forging oven to make the fire much hotter.

Ladle and crucible are a special spool and cup, made of pottery (clay), to hold and pour the hot metal.

Smith is a metal worker.  A blacksmith works with iron.

Anvil is a large block of iron or stone.  The anvil is like a table.  The blacksmith hits hot metal with a hammer against the anvil to shape the metal.

Rivet is a short thick metal pin used to hold metal pieces together, or to put wood handles on metal pieces.  The end of the pin is hit hard with a hammer, to make it wide and flat, so it won’t come out of the hole.

ACTIVITIES:

(A)  Read Numbers 21:9.

(B)   Moses made what metal thing?                                                                                  

Lesson 6.14

(Covering the sections titled:  “Sheet metalworking”  and  “The gold- and silversmith,”  pages 121 and 122.)

ACTIVITIES:

(A)  List some of the things that the sheet metal worker made:                                           

(B)   Read 1 Kings 7:13-14, 41-47.  These verses describe the bronze things in the temple.

(C)  Read 1 Kings 7:48-50.  These verses list the gold things in the temple.

(D)  Read Acts 19:23-26.

(E)   What is the name of the silversmith?                                                                          

(F)   What did the silversmiths make to earn a lot of money?                                              

(F)   The silversmiths were against Paul.  Why?