This course is an introduction to residential construction trades. You will learn construction methods through the building various projects that may include scale model homes, recreational cabins, dog houses and even garages. In this class you will be introduced to hand and power tools of the trade, blueprint reading, building from blueprints, and designing your own building. This course emphasizes safe working practices, teamwork, understanding professional framing practices and career opportunities and will focus on the theories, methods and techniques involved in work within the building trades.