Can You Fix This?
I teach Industrial Arts at a small school in Pennsylvania. We have a wood shop teacher, a metal shop teacher, and I teach Computer-Aided Design. We try to have students begin their projects in the CAD lab and then take their plans to the shop for fabrication after they have planned and done some problem solving in the CAD lab. I also teach safety and introduce hand tools to all the 8th graders in my school. My 8th grade students get to use some tools and the drill press to make a car powered by a mouse trap, a hovercraft powered by an electric leaf blower, and a bird house, after they do their safety lessons. We are very busy during the school day. I am constantly amazed at the nu...
