Course Description

Wood Design is run as a hands-on elective that will give students an opportunity to design and build some projects made predominately from wood. Other materials may be incorporated such as resins, plastics, felts, and metals. Students will learn some vital skills needed to operate machines to build their projects and learn how to select appropriate materials based on the task they wish to accomplish. Students will get to work with some top end natural timbers such as jarrah, marri and she-oak as well as some others such as pine and meranti.

There is plenty of scope for individualising projects in this elective.

In this Course students will investigate a range materials and processes associated with manufacturing items from wood through the use of hand tools, power tools and machines related to the woodworking industry. Different equipment will be introduced with an emphasis on safety. Students are able to apply a range of strategies to join, shape and finish timber artefacts. Students will also be introduced to various woodworking joints through construction of functional projects. These joints will be applicable to furniture construction in later courses. Sketching and CAD skills will be expanded during this course to assist the student’s ability to communicate graphically and convey their own design concepts. This course provides a sound base for all Design and Material Technology Wood Courses in Year 11.