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Mr. Vickers. “That did a lot to mature them by realizing what it’s like on the other side of the fence.”
The students made a scale model of the sheds while building the actual I sheds. Mr. Vickers explained, “To get that to work I made scaled rulers / where a board foot equaled an inch.”
“First we built a scale model of a wall, then we built the actual wall./ We built a model of the roof system, then we went out and built that. When the sheds were finished all students had a scale model to take home with them so they could have an exact example of what they did. These models were just as important as making the actual sheds because it helped them learn all the names of the building parts before we actually started working with them.”
Building trades students expressed their feelings about the .project.
Wall foreman John Grigsby said, “The most important things I learned by doing this was how to measure and learning how to do the things that it takes to build the sheds. I got practice using hand tools and skillsaws, too.”
“Making the foundation was the hardest,” John continued. “You had to dig the foundation holes and poiir cement and measure the skids accurately.’’ t
Front wall foreman Tomihy Pullen commented, “I learned to piut shingles on. At first! didn’t know how to line them up but finally I learned to go up about five inches! to make them go level across. ”
“I thought putting the ridge pole together was the hardest thing,’Mie added.
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