Build your own tester and encourage interest in properties of woods. (editor)

A step-by-step procedure for forming urethane plastic products for school shop experimentation. (GB)

An industrial arts program was adapted to help handicapped high school students gain independent living skills, including exposure to tool use, woodworking techniques, basic measurement concepts, and safety. Special educators worked with industrial arts teachers to plan and implement the program, which has met with success. (CL)

Briefly outlines three sculpture projects for secondary students, two using papier mache, one using wood. (SJL)

Instructions on making a canoe paddle include types of wood to consider, choices of tools, how to determine paddle length, various designs, blade dimensions, smoothing, waterproofing, and storage. Explains how every aspect of the design is influenced by upper body strength, paddling experience, and personal preference. (TD)

A study to compare the meanings ascribed by 35 occupational therapy students to puppetry, woodworking, weaving, and ceramics revealed significant differences before and after learning, especially for puppetry. Significant differences were found across activities, mainly between weaving and the other crafts. (JOW)

Woodworking is a therapeutic, recreational, leisure-time activity, but it does not prepare students for useful careers. Industrial arts/technology teachers are too often preoccupied with developing student skills rather than teaching concepts. (JOW)

As producers of lumber are preparing to convert their output to the metric system, wood shop and building construction teachers must become familiar with the metric measurement language and methods. Manufacturers prefer the "soft conversion" process of changing English to metric units rather than hard conversion, or redimensioning of lumber. Some…