Course Guide - 2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 17
Technology and Engineering
Course Title
Description
Exploration of Media
Creations
Elective
Semester course
Grade 7
This course will revolve around the use of various types of media in the
world of advertising. Students will gain an understanding of how to
communicate efficiently and effectively towards a target audience.
Throughout the semester students will create multiple commercials using
iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Powtoon, & other applications for school and
community events. Additionally, students will dive into what digital
citizenship means and how it will affect them as they become active in
the social media landscape.
Manufacturing, Automation &
Robotics – Project Lead the
Way
Elective
Semester Course
Grade 8
Students trace the history, development and influence of automation and
robotics as they learn about mechanical systems, energy transfer,
machine automation and computer control systems. Students use the
VEX Robotics® platform to design, build and program real-world objects
such as traffic lights, toll booths and robotic arms. In addition students
have the opportunity to design, engineer and write computer code using
(Robot C). This culminating team project consist of a moving vehicle
using theVEX robotic engineering equipment from an engineering team
approach.
Medical Detectives – Project
Lead the Way
Elective
Semester Course
Grade 8
In this Project Lead the Way class, students play the role of real-life
medical detectives as they solve medical mysteries through hands-on
projects and labs, investigate how to measure and interpret vital signs,
learn how the systems of the human body work together to maintain
health and research future careers in biomedical sciences. Several
dissections including the cow eye, sheep brain and the sheep heart will
aid student understanding of our own anatomy. Additionally, students will
analyze “crime scenes” using the latest in biomedical sciences (DNA
electrophoresis) and forensics (fingerprinting, chromatography, blood
splatter, etc.) to determine who committed the crime.