• Students interpret prints and apply the information to basic planning and layout processes.
• Students select and safely use appropriate tools, machines and materials, following standard assembly procedures.
• Students select finishing materials and safely perform finishing processes in an environmentally responsible manner.
• Students demonstrate ability to apply math skills to solving problems in construction technology.
• Students apply communication skills by reading, presenting oral and written information, and listening to and following directions while performing construction assignments.
• Students apply their understanding of all aspects of the construction industry by maintaining a portfolio of activities related to their construction technology experiences.

Standard 2: Furniture and Wood Product Manufacturing Students will understand and demonstrate furniture, wood products, and mass production technology processes, including entrepreneurial applications.
Examples of the types of work students should be able to do to meet the standard:

• Students select and safely use tools and machines to produce cabinets, furniture and wood craft products.
• Students participate in planning, scheduling, producing, packaging, and marketing mass-produced wood products.

• Mass Production: Students will work in small groups (teams of three to four students), students select a product that can be mass produced (select something such as a pot holder, cassette holder, breadbox, etc.). Each of those teams builds a prototype, and presents a written and oral report to the class, including a rationale for their selection, a cost analysis, and a production plan. The students, through a democratic process, select the product to be mass-produced from among those presented to the class. They then organize a company, develop a production flow chart on a computer, assign responsibilities, and mass-produce the product. Each team analyzes the total experience and submits written recommendations for the future.

Standard 3: Residential and Commercial Building Construction Students will understand and apply the procedures, techniques, equipment, and materials unique to residential and commercial building construction.
Examples of the types of work students should be able to do to meet the standard:

• Students describe and apply techniques in site preparation, forming and placing concrete foundations, framing, installing mechanical systems, and finishing a residential structure.
• Students describe and apply techniques, skills, materials, equipment, and procedures employed in light and heavy commercial construction.

• Kingpost Roof Truss: Students work in teams of two, and using standard reference material, students collaborate in the design and layout of a gable-roof, Kingpost truss for a garage measuring 20’ x 24’ with 6” unit rise and a 1’ overhang. Each team does a full-sized layout on the floor using a measuring tape, framing square, and chalk line. Each member of the team checks the accuracy of the layout by figuring the rafter length (hypotenuse) using the Pythagorean theorem and then calculates the amount and cost of framing material needed to complete the roof. Individual students complete the assignment by laying out and building a flat Kingpost roof truss model of the garage to 1/4 scale and labeling the structural members.