Grade 6
Introduction to Computer Applications SEM
Course Code 808700 – One Semester
Elective This course is designed to introduce middle school students to the basics of computers, keyboarding skills, and potential careers. Students will develop and enhance touch skills for entering information using a keyboard to compose and produce personal, educational, and professional documents. Students are introduced to entrepreneurial concepts, including business ownership, marketing principles, and basic economic principles. Computer science objectives (algorithms and programming) and computational skills are explored.
Grade 7
Family and Consumer Science 7 SEM
Course Code 806700 - One Semester
Elective This course emphasizes personal responsibility for the demands of multiple life roles through hands-on, project-based instruction. Students focus on understanding human development, demonstrating interpersonal relationships, exploring family relationships, maintaining personal environments, demonstrating nutrition and wellness, using consumer and family resources, developing textile, fashion, and apparel concepts, developing education and early childhood concepts, exploring career, community and family connections, and developing leadership skills.
Students are exposed to Career Investigations to allow students to explore career options and begin investigating career opportunities. Students assess their roles in society, identify their roles as workers, analyze their personal assets, complete a basic exploration of career clusters, select career pathways or occupations for further study, and create an Academic and Career Plan based on their academic and career interests. This course also helps students identify and demonstrate the workplace skills that employers desire in their future employees.
Technology and Engineering Education 7 SEM
Course Code 801700 - One Semester
Elective Students study significant inventions that have advanced society and explore contemporary technological problems facing them, their community, or the world and apply systematic procedures to invent new products or innovations as solutions. Students discover the design process while being challenged and empowered to use and apply their learning to design solutions to real-world problems through project-based learning.
Grade 8
Family and Consumer Science 8
Course Code 807000
Elective Family and Consumer Science 8 is a course that builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in FACS 7 SEM. Students focus on facilitating human development; managing interpersonal relationships; strengthening family relationships; analyzing personal environments; enhancing nutrition and wellness; maximizing consumer and family resources; applying textile, fashion, and apparel concepts; applying education and early childhood concepts; managing career, community, and family connections; and developing leadership skills.
Lab Fee: $15.00
Introduction to Teacher Cadet
Course Code 843000
Elective This exploratory course fosters student interest, understanding, and appreciation of the teaching profession and allows students an introduction to careers in education. Students are taught to develop self-awareness, collaborate and communicate with peers, build positive learning environments, and discover learning differences of others. The curriculum is designed to help students set attainable goals in the Education and Training Career Cluster. This course is piloted at certain schools.
Technology and Engineering Education 8
Course Code 802000
Elective Students combine resources and techniques to create systems, attaining comprehension of how technological systems work. Students will explore, design, analyze, and evaluate technological systems. By simulating systems and assessing their impacts, students gain insight into how to approach the problems and opportunities of a technological world. Students will also explore technology-oriented careers.
Lab Fee: $15.00
Technology of Robotic Design
Course Code 803000
1 Credit
Elective This is an introductory course in the Manufacturing career cluster. Students engage in the study of computers and microprocessors and their applications to manufacturing, transportation, and communication systems. Topics include computer equipment and operating systems, robotics, programming, control systems, and social/cultural impact of these technologies. Problem-solving activities challenge students to design, program, and interface devices with computer systems. Learning activities include robotics, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and design, and control of electromechanical devices.
Lab Fee: $10.00