ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
This course has a broad application for almost every career path that your students might choose. This course supplies both essential career skills and life skills. Designed for early high school students, the course offers you the flexibility to customize it to the unique needs of your program and your students. Interactive games and other engaging online and offline activities make practical real-life application of essential business principles understandable and useful in the daily lives of your students and in the careers that they choose.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
This course includes lessons that help students learn about careers that make a powerful impact in all of our lives. From criminal law to every phase of the trial process, the course moves on to include lessons on the correctional system and the implications of legal ethics and the constitution.
HALF-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
In this course, students learn about the main character traits, which are truthfulness, trustworthiness, responsibility, diligence, integrity, respect, caring, and fairness. They analyze and interpret specific situations that demonstrate these traits. Then, in the next part of the course, students discover how to define and recognize bullying and cyberbullying, and they learn how they negatively impact everyone involved. Students develop a bullying prevention mindset by learning safe and appropriate strategies to respond to bullying situations. Finally, as a member of their neighborhood, their city, and their country, students learn about good citizenship by describing the rights, duties, and privileges included in it.
ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
Introduction to Coding introduces the basic syntax and logic of writing in JavaScript. Topics include the three types of data: strings, numbers, and Boolean; variables and performing operations on variables; basic operations; logic operations; and control structures. The course concludes with using procedures to simplify repeated code. Students will explore the practices of arrays, objects, functions, conditionals and loops, manipulating HTML elements, different types of code documentation, as well as giving and receiving feedback from both users and other developers. The process of solving complex problems is modeled from beginning to end as problems are broken down into smaller pieces and addressed through planning, coding, and putting the pieces together to solve the larger problem.
HALF-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
Computer Applications explores online networks and software. Topics include word processing software, organizing data, selecting the correct digital tools, analysis of data, visual representation of data, and troubleshooting software and operating systems. Additional topics include safe digital citizenship, data security, intellectual property, file management, and intellectual property rights.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
We watch with interest as crime scenes are dramatized on television and in film, and sit on the edge of our seat as various members of the justice system solve the most baffling cases. But what about the science behind the crime? This course explores the role science and technology plays in this fascinating and growing career. In this course, you’ll learn the specialized skills and techniques used during a crime scene investigation and how evidence and data is expertly collected, preserved, and analyzed. With a strong focus on the innovative science used in the field as well as participation in interactive activities, you will follow the entire forensic process – from examining evidence to taking the findings to trial – and learn how the professionals are utilizing science to bring criminals to justice.
HALF-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
In Anthropology, you will trace the history of homo sapiens and explore our evolutionary trail. This course offers an anthropological lens to observe our movement from cave dweller to modern humans. It sheds light on how we forged our way and developed all of the things that make us human, such as our cultures, languages, and religions. We, as humans in the 21st century, are highly intelligent, innovative people with astounding technological ability – how did we get this way?
ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
Games have been played for thousands of years. People love to find ways to entertain themselves. In this course, the student becomes the game master! Students will learn the basics of gaming, from what makes games fun to what makes them work. Students will explore all types of games in this course, including mental games, board games, and video games. The course focuses on developing a student’s ability to recognize good gameplay mechanics and the steps necessary to produce a game. This course does NOT require students to know or learn a programming language. The emphasis is on the history and design of games and the different careers available in the game industry.
