7th Grade Electives

Outcomes:

• To write and create your own songs

• Learn to play and sing in a band

• Sing and player covers

In this elective you can choose what sort of music you would like to make. We can write your own songs, record with professional equipment and even make a video to go with it.

You might want to make a rap or electronic music, or simply a ballad with voice, piano and / or ukulele, or just play in a band. Bring your ideas and we can help make it a reality!

Check out some of the stuff that students have done already this year

Outcomes:

• Expression

• Social skills

• Performance

In Drama, you will practice various means of expressing a character. Through tone, body language, and line delivery, you can bring a character to life. You will get to practice with improv sketches as well as scripted pieces. Join this fun, supportive group and practice the art of drama.

We will put on a small performance at the end of the course for 2nd graders.

Outcomes:

• Get familiar with Escape room game ideology

• Create your own escape room game experience

• Have the opportunity to play the games created by others

Are you good at solving puzzles and riddles? Do you like to make up some on your own? In Escape room elective you'll have an opportunity to use your creativity and imagination to be the master mind of the game. Use your own story or borrow a plot from your favorite movie or movies and make your friends escape from the scenario created by you!

Outcomes:

• Critical thinking and learning to learn

• Cultural competence, interaction and expression

• Multi-literacy and comparative analysis

Introduction to Philosophical ideas from ancient times to modern.

What is the meaning of life? Is life real? Am I in the matrix? Is it a rabbit? Or is it duck? On second thought, is it that seagull that ate my ice cream? These are some of the questions that will arise in Introduction to Philosophy. This elective will open your mind to new ideas and ways of thinking. We will explore how humans viewed the world and tried to figure out what it is all about. Is it "turtles all the way down"? You will have to sign up to find out!

Outcomes:

• Expand knowledge of various two dimensional artistic mediums

• Learn to communicate and express yourself in visual form

• Develop visual thinking, problem solving skills, dexterity and perseverance.

Students will practice different drawing and painting techniques in an encouraging, relaxed environment. Techniques might include watercolour, acrylic paints, gouache, charcoal, ink, oil pastels, soft pastels or markers. Each medium is approached from an environmental perspective to help the students learn sustainable and sensible ways to use materials and care for tools.

Alongside learning the practical artistic skills students will also develop their individual artistic expression.

Topics of projects take inspiration from art history, contemporary art, visual culture in our society, or they could be initiated by the students themselves.

Outcomes:

• Understand "What is a Robot & components of Robotics?"

• Understand Electricity and Electronics.

• Developing team building skills

Robotics is a growing field in our world that is constantly changing and advancing in technology. 

You will have the opportunity to build and program your own robot through various obstacles and challenges presented throughout the class.  

For this course, students will be programming and building the Lego Mindstorms Robot. Students will be using it to learn to program robots, create their projects, and share their creations. 

You would also develope your team working skills which would be quite useful later in your working life.

We would use Chromebooks and Mindstorm application to write the program and pseudocode. We would start with Visual coding; once you have grasped the basics of programming, we would move on to Text programming.

Participate and improve your digital knowledge and leave your impression in the world !