Courses
This is the first semester of a full-year course for sixth grade students that builds on basic principles of scientific inquiry and translates those skills to more complex, overarching themes. The course includes units that help students understand the definitions, forms, and classifications of living organisms and learn to analyze...
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This is the first semester of a yearlong seventh-grade course that develops student knowledge of a variety of concepts within the earth, life, and physical sciences. Students investigate science topics such as matter, energy, climate, Earth?s location and role in the universe, heredity, and biological unity and diversity. Skills lessons...
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This is the first semester of a full-year course that eases students? transition to middle school with engaging, age-appropriate literary and informational reading selections. Students learn to read critically, analyze texts, and cite evidence to support ideas as they read essential parts of literary and informational texts and explore a...
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Students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers in this first semester of a full-year middle school course. With engaging literary and informational texts, students learn to think critically, analyze an author?s language, and cite evidence to support ideas. Students complete an in-depth study of Jack London?s classic novel White Fang...
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