River Valley High School

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Welding I. & II.   Class        

1 credit      Block Period  2 hrs.

   1 semester         18 weeks

Students will be doing hands-on activities in the welding shop.  Students will be doing gas welding and arc welding.   Students will do practice welds to develop skill.

In this course students learn to set up and safely operate both arc welding and oxy-acetylene welding equipment.  Students will be working on welding projects.  

Students will be doing lab work with both manual and automatic gas cutting in the course.  Various welding joints are welded in the four basic welding positions.

The students experience the welding of different metal types, the use of  inert gas welding,  angle iron welding, square tube welding, and fusion gas welding.  Project work by the student further advances their welding skills in this course.  Seniors will be given preference in a limited enrollment.

Students will learn the following basic principles and skills:

1.      Shop safety
2.      welding parts and how they work
3.      gas welding
4.      arc welding
5.      Mig welding
6.      types of welds
7.      student projects
8.      4 basic welding positions
9.      inert gas welding
10.    types of metals
11.    angle iron welding
12.    square tube welding
13.    fusion gas welding
14.    cutting torch
15.    types of welding joints
16.    hand tools
17.    metals machines
18.    working drawings - how to read a drawing