一周一次, the entire school steps out of the block schedule for a daylong interdisciplinary learning adventure known as a 集中一天. 班级旅行, 这是我们中学生活的另一个重要部分, 将学生带到加州和美国的不同地区.S. 通过这些冒险和挑战, 我们的学生表现出善良和自然的社区建设者. For all these reasons 和更多的, our middle school is a wonderful place to learn and grow.
赌场捕鱼网投中学的艺术课程鼓励学生去感受 confident and successful in their creative efforts and to take risks, make mistakes, and try again.
所有六年级的学生都选修视觉艺术. The activities in the visual 艺术s curriculum explore the fundamentals that 形状 艺术istic expression: line, color, 纹理, 形状, 和体积. 学生们使用各种各样的媒体和技术. 项目包括素描、绘画、雕塑、粘土和概念创作.
Sixth grade music is a trimester-long course that introduces students to a variety of musical skills and concepts including keyboard playing, 打鼓, 弦乐器, 音乐理论. Students 工作 on a number of musical selections with an emphasis on creative strategy and problem-solving. 在小团体中, 学生与他们的同龄人合作选择, 准备, 然后在学校的独奏会上表演一首他们自己选的曲子.
Seventh graders p艺术icipate in a required CodeCombat elective for one semester of the year. 通过CodeCombat, 学生学习如何用Python编写代码, 最流行的编程语言之一. With a comprehensive curriculum that includes computer science units and reinforces learning through project-based game development and web development units, 学生将在从基本语法到递归的旅程中进步.
八年级的时候,学生 combine the skills developed in sixth and seventh grade into a project-based experience. 通过使用小型电路板, 传感器, 汽车, 和编码, 学生将设计并编写自己的机器人程序. Project challenges include coding appropriate responses to different environmental stimuli. 最后一个项目是建造一个顺行车.
除了计算思维的必修课,学生 have the opportunity to p艺术icipate in our competitive FLL robotics team in the fall as well as various robotics and computational thinking electives throughout the year.
除了探索文学, you will learn to clearly and concisely communicate your ideas by engaging in the 写作 and editing process. 学生阅读, 在各个年级进行写作和编辑, 注重文学分析, 英语语法和写作习惯, 语言和词汇发展, 以及各种体裁的写作, 包括创意, 分析, 以及自传体形式. 在中学的课程中, 学生写作的深度和复杂性得到了发展和提高.
Every student is p艺术 of an advisory group of 9-10 students across grade levels that is led by a middle school teacher. 咨询小组每周与他们的顾问会面. 这是一个与了解他们的成年人交流的好时机, 听取同行的建议, 讨论与中学生有关的社会情感话题, 玩游戏, 祝大家玩得开心. 学生们通常会在整个中学阶段跟随同一个导师. After three years, these adults may become a student’s strongest advocate and closest mentor.
六年级学生参加生活技能课程, 把性教育作为七年级科学课的一部分, 在八年级上人类发展课程. 六年级的时候, 生活技能包括学习技能, 如何适应中学生活的课程, 同侪压力和数字公民. 七年级的性教育以解剖学和生物学为基础, and includes frank conversations about the physical and e运动al changes that occur during adolescence. 八年级的人类发展重点是做出正确的选择, 并讨论了同伴压力、毒品和酒精教育等话题.
数学 classes in the 中学 are designed for students to build and demonstrate mastery, 培养批判性思维能力, 增加信心. 根据学生的准备程度而不是年级水平来安排他们上数学课, 而且大多数数学课的学生都是不同年级的, 提供丰富的学习氛围.
学生将把课本中学到的技能应用到现实生活中. 中学 数学 classes include 数学 6, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Advanced Algebra, and Geometry. Some eighth grade students have the opportunity to take advanced 数学 classes in the 上学校.
“健康健身,终身健体”是我们的体育校训. Students acquire the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their health and wellbeing by learning different kinds of exercise, 练习正确的形式, 参与团队合作, 准备和计划健身活动. 学生参加心血管健身, 肌肉力量和耐力, 团队运动带来的灵活性, 个人活动, 和调节.
体育教育包括各种团体运动,包括水球, 足球, 夺旗橄榄球, 极限飞盘, 篮球, 羽毛球, 和更多的. 学生们还将游泳、跳舞、练习瑜伽和做循环训练. 我们认为培养学生的认知能力是必要的, 情感和精神运动技能是成功的学习者. Sportsmanship and confidence building are important components of our physical education curriculum.
在中学科学课上,学生 develop curiosity about the natural world and a 工作ing knowledge of scientific problem-solving methods. Overall, the curriculum creates perspective on how we as humans fit into the natural world.
六年级的学生开始学习人类的大脑, and learning about who they are as thinkers and learners as they begin their middle school journey. 之后,重点是地球科学. 这包括对天气的研究, 矿物学, 岩石循环, 板块构造论, 地震, 和火山. 六年级的课程还包括行星和环境科学.
生命科学是七年级的重点. Students come to understand the environment as a dynamic living system and how they have the potential to affect change. 学生们还学习了进化论, 人体, 青少年的成长和发育, 性, 以及如何做出负责任的选择.
Eighth grade science 准备s students for upper school science courses by developing their quantitative and 分析 approaches to solving problems in physics and chemistry. 学生学习科学测量, 原子结构, 元素周期表, 化学反应, 化学污染, 以及牛顿物理学的力的概念, 运动, 工作, 和能源.
通过研究来自世界各地的群体和民族, 学生们通过文化的框架来了解社会, 经济, 和政治. 他们将穿越一系列的历史和地理区域, st艺术ing far away and long ago and moving closer in time and space—the Pacific Rim in sixth grade, 七年级的西方文明课, 八年级的美国研究. 他们将了解文明如何以及为什么会随着时间而变化. 通过将社会研究与英语和艺术相结合, 他们将了解我们世界的相互联系.
六年级学生学习南亚的土地和人民, 东亚, and Oceania after introduction to the main 分析 skills used to evaluate the features of a society. 主题包括史前和外观, 扩张, and increasing complexity of human societies; technology and innovation; religions and philosophies; beliefs and government; social structures and systems of rule; aesthetics and 艺术s.
Eighth grade 社会研究 focus on conflict and change in American society and political structures. 本课程从文化和社会公正的角度审视美国历史, 审查宪法和人权, 迁移, 移民, 美洲原住民文化, 奴隶制, 以及公民权利. Students learn how to investigate controversial issues with reason and objectivity with respect for their peers at the forefront of class discussions.
比如数学课, language classes in the 中学 are organized by skill level rather than grade level. 学生可能被安排学习西班牙语, 法国, 或普通话1A, 1B, 或1C取决于他们之前的经验. Students begin to acquire language through games and conversation, building a basic vocabulary. Grammar and syntax are introduced through stories and thematic units that incorporate world cultures.
获得语言流畅性和工作词汇是最重要的. 对语法的强调阐明了交际意图. 活动调动学生的兴趣,鼓励热烈的讨论. Accelerated students may be placed in advanced 中学 or 上学校 world language classes.
The 赌场捕鱼网投 中学 competes with other schools in interscholastic athletics in a number of sports, 包括:极限飞盘, 足球, 篮球, 排球, 还有国旗橄榄球. 实践是在学校的选修期间进行的. Games occur after school with transportation to and from events provided by 赌场捕鱼网投 buses or vans. 赌场捕鱼网投’s transportation dep艺术ment is very busy taking care of needs of the whole school, 有时,我们可能需要父母作为监护人或司机的帮助.