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Pullman High School

Course Guide - Wood Shop & Construction Courses

Wood Shop & Construction Courses

Woodshop and Construction courses teach students essential carpentry, tool usage, and building techniques, providing hands-on experience in creating projects and understanding construction processes. These classes prepare students for careers in the construction industry, engineering, and skilled trades, while promoting teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving.

A yellow hard hat, level, compass, and pen lay on top of architectural blueprints.

  • (Fee Required)

    Are you interested in the construction field? Or do you just want to know how to build and put things together? This exploratory course offers students a way to explore the construction industry and all it has to offer. This hands-on course provides an opportunity to explore career options in construction, learn about blueprint reading, dive into construction science and focus on residential and commercial framing. Students will put their math skills to use through production and construction math. All of these skills will be learned in an environment that mimics a real-world construction zone.

    Offered: Full Year

  • (Fee Required)

    Prerequisite: TE 16. Must have passed intro to construction with a C or better. 

    A continuation of TE 16 with increasing knowledge and use of tools, materials and processes common to working with wood and wood construction. Advancing techniques and projects will be taught and students will experience the expansion of their ability to apply technical instruction to their hands-on shop projects. The course will offer a focus on exterior and interior finishing. Safety in all shop activities continues to be a crucial part of success in this course. This course may combine computer aided design and woodworking

    Offered: Full Year

  • (Fee Required)

    Prerequisite: TE 26

    The goal is to develop greater independence in the context of safety, design, layout and the processes of woodworking and woods construction. Students will be given the opportunity to learn to operate more complex tools and machines than the basic courses. This course may combine computer aided design and woodworking. The course will also focus on electrical, plumbing, and masonry. 

    Offered: Full Year

    CTE or Fine Arts credit

  • (Fee Required)

    Prerequisite: TE 26

    The goal is to develop greater independence in the context of safety, design, layout and the processes of woodworking and woods construction. Students will be given the opportunity to learn to operate more complex tools and machines than the basic courses. This course may combine computer aided design and woodworking. The course will also focus on electrical, plumbing, and masonry. 

    Offered: Full Year

    CTE or Fine Arts credit