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CTE Competencies met during this project:
1. Demonstrate positive work ethic. 
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11. Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
16. Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
18. Demonstrate proficiency with technologies common to a specific occupation.
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19. Demonstrate information technology skills.
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​35. Demonstrate safe use of a minimum of seven tools and/or pieces of equipment.
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36. 
Demonstrate various types of measuring.

Greeting Card Design 

1. Click on Microsoft Publisher (most likely in the courseware folder.)
2. When the program opens, click on "More Blank Page Sizes"
3. Scroll down and select the "Greeting Cards" folder. 
4. Select either "1/2 Letter Side Fold 5.5 x 8.5" or "1/2 Letter Top Fold 8.5 x 5.5". (This means we are using letter size paper (11 x 8.5) and folding it in half. This paper fits in our printer. If you select some other size, we cannot print it out correctly. 
5. When prompted to automatically insert pages, click YES!
6.
Search the web, or take/create your own awesome picture for the art on page one
7. Page two should be intentionally left BLANK!
8.
Type a meaningful and/or funny statement on page 3. Leave room for you to write your own note and sign. 
9. On page 4 in size 11 font, type "This greeting card was designed by YOUR NAME" 

10. Save your work. Upload your publisher file to your Google Drive. 
11. Turn your greeting card in on Google Classroom. We will print your card out on card stock on the color printer. Thanks


Examples of wooden ornaments. Take a picture of your ornament and submit on Google Classroom for grading. 

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  • Home
  • High School STEM
    • AI: Learning the Basics >
      • AI.Images.WYSIWYG
    • Career Planning
    • Create.Your.Own.Business.Plan
    • Engineering Design Challenges >
      • Automata.Toys
      • Carnival Games
      • Gliders
      • Mini Golf Course Design
      • Mobile.Hospital.Design
      • Mousetrap.Vehicles
      • Pinewood Derby Cars
      • Ping Pong
      • Ping Pong Ball Projectiles
      • Refinish/ Recycle / Upcycle Project
      • Tasty.Morsel.Dispenser
      • Wood Bridge Contest
      • Wooden Tower Contest
      • Yard.Game.Engineering
    • Grand Challenges Presentation
    • HOMEWORK Post >
      • Current Events HW -Example Topics
    • How-to-Video Creation
    • Final Woodworking Project
    • LASER PROJECTS >
      • Architectural Models
    • Make Your Own Tools >
      • Framing Clamps
      • Make your own ruler
    • Manufacturing >
      • American.Flag.Manufacturing
    • Team Building Activities >
      • Character Counts
      • No-Hands Cup Stacking Challenge
      • Team Survival Challenge
    • Technology Webquest
    • Woodworking Projects >
      • Cornhole-Tabletop boards
      • Dog/Cat Houses
      • Gun Rack
      • Homemade.Tools
      • Intro.Woodworking.Project.Choices
      • Phone Stand
      • Router.a.sign
      • Shaker-style Table
      • Smart Phone Speakers
      • Tabouret (Plant Stand)
      • Tongue Drums
      • Wooden Boxes
  • Lab Safety/How-to's
    • Safety.Videos
    • CAD Basics
    • CAD-Advanced Techniques >
      • Design a Shaker-Style Table
    • Canvas.Fundamentals
    • How Stuff Works: CERAMICS
    • How.Stuff.Works.METAL
    • How.Stuff.Works:PLASTICS
    • How-to Calculate Board Feet
    • How.to.Draw.Scale.Drawings
    • How.To.Guide.To.Joints.Grooves
    • How to LASER >
      • How.to.LASER.Basic.Designs
      • How.to.LASER.earrings
      • How.to.LASER.Final.Project.Ideas
      • How.to.Laser.Ornaments
      • How To Operate the LASER Machine
    • How.to.properly.glue.wood
    • How.To.Properly.Stain.Wood
    • How to Read a Ruler
    • How.to.Snip.and.Scan
    • How.To.Use.A.Router
    • How.to.use.a.scroll.saw
    • Machine Safety Videos
    • Safety Quiz
    • Types.of.Businesses
    • Types.of.Wood.Joints
  • Middle School STEM
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    • CO2 Racecar Design
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    • Electronics & Soldering Tutorial
    • Flight Project
    • Game Engineering
    • Greeting Cards and Ornaments
    • Ink Pens
    • Lego-NXT Robots >
      • Lego Race Cars
      • Lego Line Follower
      • Lego Sumo Wrestlers
    • Module Rotation Activities
    • MS.Manufacturing
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop.Part.1
      • Photoshop.Part.2
      • Photoshop.WYSIWYG
      • Photoshop.Meme
      • Photoshop.5th.Face
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    • Rocketry
    • Roller Coaster Design
    • Rube Goldberg and Simple Machines
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    • West Point Bridge Designer
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