The images below are examples of how the concept, "Instruction Sheet", was introduced in America. That is, a piece of paper is given a student with the "instructions" needed to create a component of a larger project. In these cases, it is instructions in making simple "keyed tenon" and "mortise and tenon" joints.

Sources: Calvin Milton Woodward, The manual training school, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods, and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals. Boston: D C Heath,1887, page 40; Reprinted by Ayer Publishing, 1969; Charles Alpheus Bennett, History of Manual and Industrial Education, 1870 to 1917, Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1937, page 395.