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Students design and build their own balsa wood model bridges. The technological development of bridges, the science principles that apply to bridge building, and the construction techniques and skills necessary for creating a bridge be explored.
Students examine economic trade. In this economics lesson, students consider opportunity cost, comparative advantage, and absolute advantage as they participate in a LeBron James scenario where they study international trade concepts.
Students prepare to take the GED by reviewing basic math concepts. In this geometry lesson, students review vocabularies such as formula, perimeter, circumference and other important geometric terms. They convert between the English and metric system.
Middle and high schoolers investigate all the different places in math that square root is present. In this geometry lesson, pupils discuss square roots as it relates to a right triangle and construction. They go over altitude, rise, base, and parts of a right triangle to solve sing the Pythagorean Theorem.
A selection of pictures showing students working together to build a house. The sequence follows the formation of floor, walls, trusses and roof. There is not much technical information but it would be useful to illustrate the main stages of building.
Students explore number sense by participating in a distance activity. In this measurement activity, students create a dibble tool by measuring certain amounts of wood. Students complete a "dibble distance" quiz and speak to their parents about dibbles.
Students layout and frame-up a scaled-down model of a wall with one door and one window.
Young scholars solve problems using equations for the amount of lumber needed for various building projects. They calculate how many square or cubic feet of lumber are neeeded to build pieces of furniture or other common home projects.
Students measure layout, and cut and install floor bridging to trade standards (100% accuracy) following all safety rules and regulations.
Students demonstrate how to lay out, cut and install stair stringer.