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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: Basic
Course Type: Correspondence
Course Description: This class is appropriate for students who have little or no cooking experience but would like to develop their cooking skills. The purpose of this class is to help individuals expand their ability to cook while improving their math, reading, and writing skills. The beginning to cook class will help you to prepare for independent living.
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course helps students make a plan that will lead to an enjoyable career. Students identify their self-interests, learn how to research careers, discover possible career paths, explore different jobs, and develop a career plan.
10 lessons, 10 submitted, 2 exams
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: This course will help students decide what they want out of a career and how to go about obtaining a job. Students will identify their interests, values, assets, and skills. They will establish goals and research careers that interest them. Interviewing and resume writing also are covered. Because of the personal nature of the assignments, no letter grades are given; this course uses a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading system.
Notes: Only 2 lessons can be submitted in a seven day period for this course. The final exam for this course is open-book. It is the student's responsibility to bring their textbook and other course materials for use on the final exam.
10 lessons, 10 submitted, 1 exams
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| Character Development for Teens (Elective) |
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Course Description: You will be using this Independent Study Course to gain insight and learn proven principles to help with the tough issues and life changing decisions teens face everyday. Students can earn 1/2 credit for completing this course.
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Grades: 9, 10
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: This course is designed to help prepare students for their responsibilities as parents and caregivers of children. Topics include prenatal care, growth and development through age six, teen pregnancy, maternal health, parenting skills, and guidance of children.
Notes: The required textbook is Brisbane, The Developing Child, Eighth Edition, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000
12 Lessons, 4 Tests
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course covers topics such as why to study child development, how to prepare for parenting, what occurs during pregnancy, and what the theories on child development are. The purpose is to help people prepare to be parents or care for children in other areas.
6 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course discusses how children develop from birth through adolescence. It talks about normal characteristics and parenting skills. It also discusses special circumstances such as handicaps and childhood illnesses.
7 lessons, 1 final
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course discusses buying and caring for clothing, the basics of clothing construction, fabrics and textiles, and careers in the fashion industry.
12 lessons, 12 submitted, 2 exams
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: Teaches beginning sewing skills, including planning, clothing impressions, selecting flattering styles, choosing fabrics and patterns, understanding patterns, fitting them to you, and creating your own garments. Reviews sewing equipment, what to use and how to use it in creating clothing. Teaches fiber contents of textiles, including designs and weaves.
Notes: Sewing machine, sewing scissors, pins, needle, thread, and tape measure are required.
7 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: The messages clothes send, how clothes reflect the future, deciding what to wear and why, how to buy clothes, the garment industry, and sewing basics.
7 lessons, 1 final
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| Cooking and Nutrition Class (Elective) |
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Course Description: The purpose of this class is to help you improve your food preparation skills and to increase your independence in preparing foods. Cooking is a life skill that can be developed with practice. The goal of this class is to give you the opportunity to practice preparing foods so that you will improve your cooking skills. Please read all the directions before you begin.
To earn one-half (0.5) elective credit in Cooking and Nutrition, the student must complete all of the assignments listed.
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Dating-when, why, and whom; planning, asking, and accepting; dating behaviors and cautions; personality differences and relationship skills; role of love in relationships.
7 lessons, 1 exam
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: Evaluation of self-interests and values, researching occupations that are of interest, and drawing conclusions about self and the world of work in order to evaluate directions that might be inviting for career preparation and planning.
6 lessons, 1 exam
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Grades: 11, 12
Rigor: General
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: This course introduces the student to the concept of entrepreneurship. Students will assess their own entrepreneurial traits, research opportunities, and develop a business plan.
13 lessons, 8 submitted, 2 exams
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Everyday Etiquette is designed to help the student deal with the stresses and strains experienced in this technologically advanced, population-dense society. This course provides an introduction to the use of proper etiquette in communications and personal actions at home, in school, in the community, and in the workplace. This course will help the student learn how to respect the viewpoints, cultural styles, and customs of others and behave in ways which promote harmonious relations in all situations.
6 assignments, 3 examinations
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Students will use a variety of sources and activities to discover how food affects the way their body works, including cooking meals, researching individual nutrition needs, tracking eating habits, and planning meals based on scientific guidelines.
7 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: Continuation of FOODS 41 (Food and Nutrition 1). This course includes kitchen management, consumerism, nutrition, meal planning, meal service, and food preparation techniques.
12 lessons, 1 final
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course presents guidelines for nutrition and information regarding cooking and baking methods, shopping for food, types of food, and foods around the world.
11 lessons, 11 submitted, 2 exams
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course will introduce you to planning and growing a vegetable garden. Plan your own garden, decide on the crops you personally want, and figure the amount to plant and grow. You will learn the essentials to feeding, fertilizing, and overall care for good quality, pest-free produce.
Notes: You will need to use a notebook for a garden journal. You will need graph paper or a ruler and paper to create your own graph paper.
6 lessons, 1 final
Downloads: music_arts.doc
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course discusses the factors that affect home-related decisions. Students learn the advantages and disadvantages both of renting and of buying a home, how to determine what monthly housing payment they can afford, how to choose appropriate textiles and furnishings, and how to prevent accidents and fires in the home.
12 lessons, 6 submitted, 2 exams
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: How to develop and organize interior environments to enjoy comforts and aesthetic pleasures of "good taste," regardless of budget and circumstances.
Notes: You must have access to a set of watercolors, scissors, and glue or paper clips, and furnish a few old magazines for pictures and a home-improvement project (under $3).
7 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer and Instructor Evaluated
Course Description: Continuation of INTDE 41 (Interior Design 1). This course covers architectural terminology, housing styles, furniture construction, furniture styles, home accessories, and lighting.
Notes: You will need a #2 pencil; clear plastic ruler; scissors; glue; several sheets of white, lightweight (typing) paper; several sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock (preferably gray or white); a few sheets of black construction paper; 1 colored sheet of construction paper; a black fine- or medium-tipped marker; several colored marking pens, colored pencils, crayons, or watercolors; red, yellow, blue, black, and white Tempra paints; 1-2 small paintbrushes; 2-3 magazines with pictures of rooms that can be cut out; catalog listing home accessory prices; catalog listing light fixture prices; and samples of carpet, drapery, and upholstery fabric, paint chips, etc.
7 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Learn about different types of leadership, characteristics of a leader, how leaders make effective decisions, and the secret to becoming a good leader.
8 lessons, 1 exam
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Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Life Skills is designed to increase knowledge and ability in skills necessary for everyday living. The course emphasizes defining personal values, goal-setting and planning, making decisions and solving problems, evaluating information and dealing with media and peer pressure, communication and relationships, decision making, wellness and personal safety, and contributing to your community.
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Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course will introduce the student to an overview of good nutrition principles that are needed for human physical and mental wellness. Discussion of digestion, basic nutrients, weight management, sports and fitness, and life-span nutrition is included. Application to today’s food and eating trends, plus learning to assess for reliable nutrition information is emphasized.
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Grades: 9, 10, 11
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: The student will begin to learn to make wise and safe food decisions for active living as many facets of foods, nutrition, and wellness are explored throughout this course. There is an emphasis on understanding nutrition guidelines throughout life, making healthful choices, planning and preparing meals safely, and appreciating food diversity. Student learning is enhanced by a variety of activities including special investigations, simple experiments, and problem-solving activities. It is recommended that the student have access to basic kitchen equipment and tools.
Notes: The required textbook is Duyff and Larson, Nutrition and Wellness, Second Edition, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2004
14 Lessons, 5 Tests
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course focuses on issues related to parenting, beginning with deciding whether or not to have children, prenatal health care practices, the stages of development in infants and children, how to develop a positive parent-child relationship, balancing parenthood with other areas in your life, the role of parents in the family, and how to build a strong family.
10 lessons, 10 submitted, 2 exams
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Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: Financial literacy is fundamental for a successful future. This course is designed to help students plan financial goals, understand requirements for reaching a satisfactory standard of living and achieve financial stability. Lessons include: setting goals and making decisions, applying for jobs and planning for careers, earning money, preparing a budget, understanding banking services (check writing, saving and investing), using credit wisely, buying insurance, purchasing a car, making wise decisions, living on your own and planning for retirement.
18 lessons, 17 submitted, 2 exams
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: A practical course that considers freedom and interaction with others, freedom from conflict, and freedom within the family.
6 lessons, 1 exam
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Grades: 9, 10, 11
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: This course provides an overview of the skills, experiences, and responsibilities needed to live independently. A wide variety of topics are covered including housing, buying and insuring a vehicle, banking and saving money, and job hunting. Project-based learning activities provide students with real-life experiences.
Notes: There is no textbook for this course
5 Lessons, 0 Tests
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Grades: 11, 12
Rigor: General
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: This course is designed to help students begin their college selection process. Through a series of assignments and online research, students will develop the skills and knowledge needed to make an informed decision about their post high school education. They will learn how to choose and apply to a college, understand the financial aid process and where to look for financial aid, and how to improve their study habits. Students also will develop a game plan to help make the first year at college a successful year. Because of the personal nature of the assignments, no letter grades are given; this course uses a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading system.
9 lessons, 9 submitted, 1 exams
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Course Type: Online
Course Description: Students will learn how to lay a foundation for successful, responsible adulthood through effective use of time, goal setting, avoiding procrastination, overcoming feelings of inadequacy, and self motivation.
7 assignments, 1 exam
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Practical preparation for parenthood: the parenting team, teaching values to your children, handling stress, communicating, preparing financially, handling discipline.
6 lessons, 1 final
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: Increasing your knowledge of what people are like and improving your powers of self-understanding and self-expression. Gaining self-confidence, self-acceptance, and a more meaningful life.
7 lessons, 1 exam
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Grades: 9, 10, 11
Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Course Description: In this world of Internet communication, it is still important to have the skills to develop strong personal relationships with others. Topics of this course include human development as it relates to oneself and relationships with family, friends, and coworkers, and communication skills and conflict management as they relate to friendships, dating, marriage, family, and the work environment.
Notes: There is no textbook for this course
11 lessons, 2 unit tests, final exam
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Course Type: Online
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course is designed to improve study skills, habits and attitudes through experimentation with new study procedures and through application of established study methods.
4 assignments, 2 exams
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Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course is designed to help students master themselves and their ability to study, learn, and retain information in a manner that most aptly fits their learning style. In this course, students will discover their learning style, learn how to use time effectively, learn listening skills, and learn tips for taking better notes.
6 lessons, 1 exam
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Rigor: General
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Course Description: This course examines contemporary health and lifestyle issues and options. Personality development, communication skills, and decision-making processes are stressed.
10 lessons, 6 submitted, 2 exams
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