Period Offered: First, Fall
Lead Teacher(s): Leslie Stapleton
Description: This course explores artificial intelligence through both a practical and ethical lens, equipping students to understand and use AI tools in everyday life. Students will learn how AI works, experiment with real tools, and use them for things like writing, research, creativity, and problem-solving. Along the way, we’ll also ask bigger questions about truth, responsibility, and what it means to be human in a world shaped by AI. By the end of this course, students will confidently use AI with wisdom, evaluate its outputs with discernment, and make decisions rooted in truth and strong values.
Grades: 9th-12th
Length: Semester
Homework: 15 - 20 minutes for weekly assignments
Cost/Required Materials: none
Class Limit: 15
For Credit: Up to parent's discretion
Period Offered: First, Spring
Lead Teacher(s): Leslie Stapleton
Description: This course teaches high school students the basics of economics through real-world thinking inspired by Thomas Sowell and the accessible framework of "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?", combined with a Christian worldview of stewardship, integrity, and responsibility.
Students learn how scarcity, incentives, trade, money, and government decisions shape everyday life, while evaluating these topics through biblical principles. Through hands-on simulations and a weekly virtual stock investment game, students apply economic thinking to real decisions.
The goal is to develop wise, discerning students who understand how the world works and how to manage resources faithfully.
Grades: 10th-12th
Length: Semester
Homework: Light reading and approximately 10 minutes per week stock updates
Cost/Required Materials: Book $14.95 Amazon Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (LINKED HERE)
Class Limit: 15
For Credit: Yes, if all assigned reading and projects are completed
Period Offered: First
Lead Teacher(s): Melissa Wood
Description: This Biology class will be primarily a lab course that provides hands-on experience with lab equipment and teacher support that is difficult to replicate at home. Together we will explore both large and microscopic examples of God’s living creation. We will be using "The Riot and the Dance" textbook, which is available on Amazon and other retailers.
If your student would benefit from a visual supplement, I recommend the "Journey Homeschool Academy" Exploring Biology course. The course costs $279 and you will have access to it for one year. Here's a link to the course.
In-Class Focus: Weekly Friday labs (microscopy, experiments, and dissections including sea stars, dogfish sharks, and fetal pigs).
Grades: 9th-12th
Length: Year
Homework: Weekly - Two 25-minute videos should be watched at home and there will be around 10–25 pages of reading per week, plus online quizzes and exams.
Cost/Required Materials:
Lab Fee: $40 (Covers all materials and dissection specimens) - This is the class fee/student, due in full at August Mandatory Meeting
Textbook: "The Riot and the Dance" by Dr. Gordon Wilson (~$67 on Amazon; other sellers or biology texts are also acceptable)
Student Guides: Guidebook and Lab Manual - may be printed for free (with the course) or ordered for ($27) and ($17) respectively.
Class Limit: 12
For Credit: Yes, if all outside classroom assignments are completed as well. Student will receive a "Certificate of Completion" upon finishing the course.
Period Offered: Second
Lead Teacher(s): Brittany Martin & Stephanie Shanks
Description: We will be walking through Patriot Academy’s constitution curriculum and resources. Our goal is for students to understand their constitutional rights and defend their freedoms.
Grades: 11th-12th
Length: Year
Homework: minimal
Cost/Required Materials: none
Class Limit: 15
For Credit: Patriot Academy Course is designed to cover typical high school requirements for Government.
Period Offered: Second
Lead Teacher(s): Elisha Dugone
Description: In today’s world, it’s no longer enough for young people to simply profess their faith—they need to understand it, articulate it, and engage thoughtfully with differing perspectives. Why do we believe what we believe, and how can we confidently defend it?
This worldview class equips students to explore those questions in depth. We’ll examine the Bible as a reliable source of truth, consider historical evidence for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and address challenging topics that often lead young people to question or walk away from their faith.
Through honest, thoughtful discussion, this class creates space for meaningful conversations about faith, truth, and identity. Our goal is to help students develop a deeper, more informed faith in Jesus Christ—and to understand why that decision carries eternal significance.
This course will have some required reading ("More than a Carpenter" by Josh McDowell) and occasional assignments to be completed outside of class.
Grades: 9th-12th
Length: Year, possible for a student to come in or leave midway, but that is not preferable.
Homework: Reading "More than a Carpenter" over the course of a few weeks. There will be homework when needed, which will be some reading or answering of questions, interview project.
Cost/Required Materials: $30/student Class Fee, due in full at August Mandatory Meeting. This fee includes a copy of "More than a Carpenter"
Class Limit: 15
For Credit: Yes, up to parent's discretion
Period Offered: Third
Lead Teacher(s): Michael Dugone (every other week), Rotating Dads
Description: Students will come together in the gym or outdoor spaces to play games and expand their physical education skills. Toward the end of the year, in preparation for High School Formal, students will receive dance instruction. All student members of WATCH Co-op are asked to take P.E. both semesters.
Grades: 9th-12th
Length: Year
Homework: None
Cost/Required Materials: None
Class Limit: None (all High School students are included)
For Credit: Could count as a P.E. credit.
Other Notes: Please select HS P.E. in the fall and the spring for each of your high school students.