used to be a staple in schools across the country.
While it's making a comeback these days,
CBS two's john Elliott took a trip to PS 1 30 in Queens to check
out the return of wood shop and he talked with students and
teachers and here they are in their own words,
we need as humans opportunities to work with our hands together.
And this engages students,
all students and especially the hard to reach students in ways
that working on tablets or worksheets can never achieve.
I didn't think that in sixth grade I'd be able to be working
with wood like this. So having this opportunity I think is cool.
This is so important.
It's so different from the normal schooling. The more you do it,
they were very tentative and nervous at first.
Now they're a little bit more outgoing. They're friendlier.
They seem to want to help each other out more because it's gonna
be hard. You're gonna be working hard,
but it's gonna get easier than what you do.
It looks like you've really got this nailed what happened?
This is something that the kids need.
It's tactile. It's engaging.
It applies engineering, carpentry, mathematics, geometry.
It's fun because we can learn without looking at textbooks and
stuff in math class.
That writing it all out there, thinking about it,
internalizing it over here, There isn't um applying.
So it's great.
It also increases their executive functioning skills because now
they're focusing more and they have to manage their time
Victoria. Why is this fun?
Because when you start to feel so satisfying.
It's not is when kids can see things that happen in real life,
comes to life with the kids can't wait until 11th grade to learn
about the benefits of career and technical education.
So we're pushed it down into the sixth grade by making it safe,
affordable and easy to implement.
Maple Wood shop is an East Orange New Jersey company that come
up with these brilliant wood shops on wheels and they have all
of the gear that the students need to construct dozens of unique
projects. You have to come, come and see it.
You have to feel the excitement in the room.
It's something that was missing in the school and now that it's
here,
like the kids just love it at Russell Sage Junior High School in
Forest Hills, Queens.
This is john Elliott CBS two News school is fun, right,
particularly that it's something about getting in there using
your hands, you know, partnering up with your fellow classmates,
teammates to work all that you have something to hold at the end.
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