Skills Exploration
Skills Exploration allows students to explore several trades and some of the ‘skills’ tradespeople use everyday. Units students may undertake include electrical, plumbing and/or carpentry.
ELECTRICAL UNIT
Labs
ELECTRICAL LAB HANDOUTS – Collection of Labs #1-8
Extension Cord Lab – Replace the end on an extension cord
Wall/Breaker panel install – Run 2 circuits from a breaker panel.
Powerpoint Lessons
Getting Power From The Powerplant To The Outlet – Lab #1
Wiring Receptacles – Labs #2 and #3
Wiring Switches – Labs # 4 – #7
Watt’s Law and Electricity – Basic Theory
Watts Law Assignment
Carpentry Labs
Skill Saw Training
- Make a sawhorse (build skills: portable circular saw, measure & cut accurately, nailing, nail removal)
General Knowledge / Reference
Plumbing Labs
Working with PEX
- Watch/Review – plumbing 101
- Make a reasonably sized square utilizing three 90 degree PEX elbows and one tee. Attatch a sutable Pex fitting to the third leg of the tee fitting that will allow it to be hooked to the hydrostatic tester. Test your work to 90 PSI and show (while still holding pressure) your successful product.
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