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867GE - UNIFIED ARTS FIELD EXPERIENCE: 1 Term / 1 Credit, Grades 10-12 [Watch Course Video] 

Explore the opportunity to build connections with your special needs peers through visual and culinary arts projects using creative collaboration.  

Learn through: working directly with students, modifying visual art and culinary lab projects to accommodate each student’s individual needs, completing an online curriculum about careers in special education

Topics/skills: art and culinary lab work, teamwork, problem-solving

Perfect for: Students who want to work with Special Education students in the art and culinary classroom setting.

867SE - UNIFIED ARTS: 1 Term / 1 Credit, Grades 10-12

This combined General Education and Special Education class will allow students to engage in hands-on learning opportunities in the Visual and Culinary Arts. Students will have the opportunity to complete personal artworks, learn about the elements and principles of design and use self-expression in Visual Arts. In Culinary Arts, students will participate in food labs while focusing on kitchen safety by using equipment to gain independence and recipe reading while working collaboratively with peers. Students will also practice grocery shopping strategies and etiquette when eating in a social setting.

043GE - UNIFIED PHYSICAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCE: 1 Term / 1 Credit, Grades 10-12  [Watch Course Video] 

043SE - UNIFIED PHYSICAL EDUCATION: 1 Term / 1 Credit, Grades 9-12

This combined General Education and Adapted Physical Education class will allow students to improve performance of self and others in recreational and fitness activities. Students will have the opportunity to participate in and make modifications for themselves and/or others in units of adventure education (ropes course, climbing wall), outdoor recreational activities (cross country skiing, bocce, golf), indoor recreational activities (archery, badminton, table tennis, indoor tennis), movement activities (dance, yoga, drumming), fitness activities (muscular strength/endurance, aerobic capacity, flexibility), and paralympic sports (basketball, goal ball). Students will leave this class with a greater knowledge of how to analyze barriers and modify physical activity habits appropriately.

680GE - UNIFIED MUSICAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE: 1 TERM / 1 CREDIT, Grades 9-12 [Watch Course Video] 

680SE - UNIFIED MUSICAL THEATRE: 1 TERM / 1 CREDIT, Grades 9-12

Unified Musical Theatre is a course designed for the inclusion of students in general education and students in special education to work together in a performance-based musical theatre environment. Course objectives include the development of communication skills, foundations of characterization, and introduction to rehearsal and performance techniques. Students will collaborate in active daily work, including theatrical and vocal warm-ups, character exploration and development activities, improvisation, rehearsal strategies, and audience etiquette. This course will meet for one term, and the course will culminate in a final public performance by the students. In term 1, students will perform in Spotlight Showcase, a variety show featuring our students’ talents, and a “sneak peek” at a few songs from Frozen. At the end of term 2, the musical Frozen will be performed.