Year One, Forestry/Wood Industry Core
 The Year 1 course of the Foundation Skills Curriculum for the Forest
and Wood Industry is a yearlong course concentrated on basic
industry skills. The competencies for the first year course were
identified using the results of a survey of 748 Pennsylvania wood
industries from all segments of the industry. Year 1 competencies
provide students with a foundational set of skills upon which to
build skills that are more specialized in years two and three.
Curriculum is in the form of teacher planning guides for
competencies in the following areas:
- Safety
- Hand tools
- Power tools
- Wood species characteristics
- Lumber scaling and grading
- Tree identification
- Basic technical skills
- Workplace skills
- Applied math
- Applied communications
- Applied technology
- Drafting
- Manufacturing machines
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