Woodworking
Band Saw Basics
This project gives detailed advice and guidelines for ensuring safe and injury-free student use of the band saw, plus introductory projects that provide experience with measurement, mathematics and scaling, in addition to hands-on band saw use.
Design and Build Gumball Machines
Students get great experience with research and design, problem solving, use of jigs and fixtures, and the details of the mass production process.
Making a Laser Level
This project gives detailed procedure for constructing an inexpensive, very accurate level that incorporates a laser pointer.
Manuscript Copyholder Project
Here’s an item that’s easy to fabricate out of common materials. It can be either an individual project or a production item that can easily be modified and mass produced.
Miniature Seesaw Project
Teaches Basic Electricity and Magnetism. Students build an electrically-operated seesaw that serves as an excellent model for visualizing magnetic repulsion and also helps with understanding the left-hand rule of current flow.
Three Handy Filler Projects
These quick projects teach woodworking skills and provide students with self-made entertainment.
Three-Piece Puzzle
In the course of making wooden puzzles, students learn about the various roles involved in industrial production (procurement, product engineering, process engineering, plant engineering, personnel management and administration), as well as about such concepts as prototype, quality control, and industrial safety.
Toy Truck Project
This activity uses inexpensive 2 x 4 lumber and is well suited for mass production.
Wooden Game Project
This lab activity makes an excellent mass-production project.
Wooden Pizza Cutter
A clever wood project teaches students about rotary routing jigs and mass production techniques—and provides them with a tool for slicing a treat!
Subject Codes:
- A — Applied Academics
- B — Building Trades / Construction
- C— Communication
- D — Drafting / Design / CAD
- E — Electricity / Electronics / Computer Technology
- G — Grading / Assessment
- M — Manufacturing
- PE — Power / Energy
- P — Problem Solving / Pre-Engineering
- S — Great for Substitutes
- T — Transportation
- W — Woodworking
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