Civics and Citizenship
Civics and Citizenship prepares for the Naturalization Test designed by the United States federal government. The course is for high school students in order to fulfill the requirement for graduation.
Integrated Global Studies +
Integrated Global Studies + (1 of 2) explores important historical events and geographic ideas that have shaped the world today. The course shows how historians and geographers study the past using maps, sources, and other tools to find patterns and connections. Aside from this, it looks at the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, a time of new discoveries that changed science, education, and government. The course also covers major revolutions, including the American, French, Latin American, Russian, and Chinese, to see how they changed societies. It then explores industrialization and new inventions that transformed daily life. Finally, the course examines historical events and their effects to show how the past has shaped the modern world.
MS Civics and Economics
MS Civics and Economics (2 of 2) explores the economic structures for individuals, businesses, and government; the examination of how institutions influence the market economy; and how government interacts and influences the private sector. Topics include: personal finance, preparing a personal budget, national budget, analysis of interest rates, investing, debt, influence of natural resources on economies, trade, market systems, taxes, labor, and regulatory agencies.
MS Civics and Economics
MS Civics and Economics (1 of 2) examines the general structure and functions of the US systems of government, the roles and responsibilities of citizens to participate in the political process, and the relationship of the individual to the law and legal system. Topics include: The Declaration of Independence, analysis of the principles US Constitution and the debates surrounding its ratification, examining validity of sources, landmark Supreme Court cases, and the voting process.
MS US History: Colonization to 1900
MS US History: Colonization to 1900 (2 of 2) explores westward expansion, early Spanish missions in western North America through to Reconstruction, the Second Industrial Revolution, and connects these events to how policies and cultures are shaped. Topics include: causes and effects of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican American War; the California gold rush; American Civil War, Indian Wars of the 19th Century.
MS US History: Colonization to 1900
MS US History: Colonization to 1900 (1 of 2) explores early American history from pre-Columbian era and closely examines the evolution from the British Colonies to the creation of the United States. A close look at the ideology of the framing documents and nature of the American republic set against the backdrop of the challenges of growth and sectional divisions and conflict.
MS World History: Ancient Times to 1770s
MS World History: Ancient Times to 1770s (2 of 2) explores the growing economic interaction among civilizations during the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Exploration, and how the Enlightenment gave rise to democratic ideas that still resonate today. Topics include: the exchange of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and commodities inspire the Enlightenment philosophy and the interest in reason and authority, natural rights of human beings, the divine right of kings, experimentalism in science, and the dogma of belief.
MS World History: Ancient Times to 1770s
MS World History: Ancient Times to 1770s (1 of 2) explores the social, cultural, and technological developments occurring concurrently in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the years AD 500–1789. It also examines how archaeologists and historians uncover the past.
MS World History: Peoples of the Ancient World
MS World History: Peoples of the Ancient World(2 of 2) explores the geographic, political, economic, and cultural development of ancient Greece, Rome, and China and applies historical thinking skills to understand implications of ancient literature, art, and philosophy on later Western culture. The course examines the birth and spread of Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, and Confucianism.
MS World History: Peoples of the Ancient World
MS World History: Peoples of the Ancient World (1 of 2) explores geographical, social, economic, and political foundations of early civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Israel, and India as they shift from nomadic societies to agricultural societies. The study of these civilizations includes the impact of geography, early history, cultural development, and economic change. The geographic focus includes the study of physical and political features, economic development and resources, and migration patterns.
MS World History: Peoples of the Ancient World
Professional Sales (1 of 1) explores the role sales plays in the national economy, the importance of ethical behavior in business. Topics include: how to build, train, motivate, and evaluate a sales team; the role of buying motives; the selling process; and the importance of data. The course is aligned to the Marketing, Sales, and Services CTE pathway.
Psychology
Psychology (2 of 2) explores human social interactions, psychological therapies, and careers in the field. Topics include: psychological perspectives, positive relationships, social and cultural diversity, language structures, memory and cognition, psychological testing, statistical research, stress/coping strategies, and mental health.
Psychology
Psychology (1 of 2) explores human behavior, behavior interaction and the progressive development of individuals. Topics include: major theories and orientations of psychology, psychological methodology, human growth and development, individual variation and personality, psychobiology, as well as sensation and perception. *This course maybe taken as a full year, or just (1 of 2) for a semester course.
Social Studies - Grade 1
Social Studies - Grade 1 (1 of 2) examines how a community functions and how each member contributes to the community for the common good through the study of civics, geography, economics, and history. Students will study their local community and learn about characteristics that define urban, suburban, and rural communities. Democratic principles and participation in government are introduced. Community resources, environment, change over time, and cause/effect are examined.
Social Studies - Grade 1
Social Studies - Grade 1 (2 of 2) examines the various features, symbols, holidays, leaders of the United States, as well as describing important people of the past. Activities include identifying national, state, and local government leaders and exploring how local government makes and enforces laws. The impact of resources and the environment are explored in terms of how humans live.
Social Studies - Grade 2
Social Studies - Grade 2 (1 of 2) explores how the world is interconnected globally through the study of geography and economics. It develops a spatial understanding of the world around to show how other cultures and civilizations are interconnected and have influenced the United States at the community, state, and national levels. United States history, world history, and civics are taught in a comparative context using various stories from the United States and around the world.
Social Studies - Grade 2
Social Studies - Grade 2 (2 of 2) describes how humans affect communities and environments of various regions. Students will learn about the geography and economics of environments around the world. They will also examine the uses of natural resources. Students will explore how goods and services move around the world and how people become producers and consumers in a global economy. Students will also learn to ask compelling and supporting questions, find and use sources, and write an argument and explanation of how people or groups affect the environment.
Social Studies - Grade 3
Social Studies - Grade 3 (1 of 2) explores the geography, history, politics, and economics at the local, state, national, and tribal levels. Course topics include: civic engagement at a community level, government services, physical and culture features of the North American region, resources, industry, and why people migrate within the United States and to the United States from other countries.
Social Studies - Grade 3
Social Studies - Grade 3 (2 of 2) explores how to use sources to learn about the First Peoples to construct a narrative of American Indian Nations. Explorations include topics of the Pueblo people, influential people and groups from some states. Activities include making an argument about the past based on reasoning, examples, and details from sources, as well as constructing a narrative of explorers and settlers in the Southwest United States to describe expansion into the West.
Social Studies - Grade 4
Social Studies - Grade 4 (1 of 2) examines the earliest periods of America through the study of history, geography, economics, and history. The course includes a study of the settlement patterns, lifestyles, and governments of early American Indian societies. European exploration and settlement of North America, as well as interaction with American Indian groups are explored. Social studies skills are applied, and primary sources, maps, graphs, and timelines are used to analyze these periods of early American history.