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At SEMS, we integrate the curriculum developed and provided by the Georgia Department of Education and the Effingham County Board of Education, as well as an offering of advanced content courses and STEA2M supporting experiences. Our curriculum is enhanced and accelerated by embedding the 4Cs in (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking) and the Design Process throughout the year. During weekly professional learning community meetings, teachers collaborate to create real-world, interdisciplinary learning experiences to benefit all students who attend SEMS.
Engineering Design Framework
Posters are present in all classrooms for student focus. Teachers drive instruction using the engineering design process to solve real-world problems.
STEA2M Extension planned activities
Each Friday, students participate in extension lessons collaboratively planned by academic and connections teachers. The blocks are approximately 1 hour in length and the activities are designed to address real-world problems that connect to grade-level standards.
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STEA2M, Content, Data Teams, and PLCs
Our weekly PLC meetings are led by our STEAM Coach. Grade-level teachers consistently plan together so that lessons are integrated across the curriculum and are uniform to create equitable learning opportunities for all students.
STEA2M Courses
Science Enrichment Class - Class designed to extend science concepts and curriculum through hands-on investigation above and beyond the typical standards to explore the world around them.
Arts
Media Arts Class is designed to integrate an array of multimedia sources to produce multimedia content including videos and photographs.
Visual Arts Class is designed to integrate an array of visual arts including drawing, painting, wood carving, sculpting, and many more art mediums.
Agriculture
The purpose of this class is to gain an understanding of the agricultural industry, its importance and impact on Georgia, the United States, and the world. Emphasis will be placed on a few of the following: horticulture, forestry, natural resources, agricultural mechanics, animal science, leadership, and the FFA. Students will gain knowledge through lectures, group work, and hands-on activities. We also have two chicken coops that ran by our GAA (self contained special education classroom). These students feed, clean pens, collect eggs, sell eggs to the school, and love on our chickens on a daily basis.
Robotics
Basic programming for robotics is an enrichment class where students work in teams to build and program basic robots to perform different tasks. Students will work in groups of four to learn the different uses of sensors, gears, and motors. Using laptops and a Lego robotics brain, students will write the code to bring their robots to life.
Engineering Design & Technology/Programming
Students learn all about the nature of technology and problem-solving. Students have opportunities to study the scope of technology and its impacts on society. They learn about the core concepts of technology and about the various approaches to solving problems, including engineering design and experimentation. Students participate in engineering-design activities to understand how criteria, constraints, and processes affect designs. Students are involved in activities and experiences where they learn about brainstorming, visualizing, modeling, constructing, testing, experimenting, and refining designs. Students also develop skills in researching information and communicating design information.
Careers
These courses help students identify careers of interest and develop employability skills that will serve them in further education and the workplace.
Performing Arts (Band, Chorus, & Theater)
Students are provided the opportunity to select three different performing arts classes which provide the opportunity to express art through instruments, vocals, and body.
Computer Science
This course aims to develop computational thinking and build student excitement about computing. In addition to learning about programming and algorithms, students build career awareness about computing skills in all fields. Students also improve their knowledge and skills concerning ethics, safety, and security on the Internet and engage in cybersecurity competitions.
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