Woodshop
Woodworking Afterschool Program
Woodworking Afterschool Program
DATE: Starting January 7th, 2020/Tuesdays
TIME: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
CLASSES: Jan 7, 14, 21, 28; Feb 4, 11; March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Apr 7
FEE: $240 for 12 sessions
Woodshop afterschool program will focus on learning the use of manual woodworking tools such as sanding blocks, clamps, hammers, screw drivers, small saws, manual drills to build projects out of wood. Students will plan, measure and build their projects while learning concepts in math, geometry, engineering and physics. Each student will learn the safe use of hand tools, measuring and level aids, woodworking techniques as well as wood protection and the use of natural finishes. Handling real tools increase fine and gross motor skills, hand eye coordination and spacial reasoning.
This year we will concentrate on a curriculum of engineering projects such as pulleys, levers, cranes, wheels and axles and other projects with moving functional parts. Students will build each project during a course of a few weeks and take them home when finished. Each semester students will bring home 4 to 5 finished projects.