Virtual Courses

This course opens the door for students to explore their interests and skill sets that will help lead them to a career path that is suitable and relative to their findings. The information acquired will empower the students as they make choices about career paths. Students will research and explore a variety of careers throughout this course.

This course is designed for students to explore the world of creative prose/poetry and grow their skills as writers. Students will gain basic knowledge in multiple forms of creative writing, including poetry, fictional writing and screenplay/script writing. Students will also be required to apply the conventions and mechanics associated with the different types of writing they produce.

This course is designed for students to explore digital storytelling and learn best practices for planning, writing, recording, and producing powerful digital stories. Students will follow steps of a digital storytelling process and build skills to produce their own digital story on a topic of their choice. The final project could take the form of a video, photo story, podcast, or “scrollytelling” (web stories in which a user scroll to navigate through text, audio, visuals, etc.).

This course covers basic concepts and practice of drawing with accuracy and shading and painting with acrylics and watercolor. This includes the understanding of drawing with accuracy while creating depth and value using 1 point perspective and shading techniques, as well as addresses aesthetic principles as they relate to composition, space, light sources to highlight, shadowing and developing color using the standard color wheel.

Digital Literacy is designed to provide students with many of the needed digital and computer literacy skills necessary to prepare for accessing, creating, evaluating, applying and communicating ideas and information. Students will gain a better understanding and application of a wide range of digital learning tools. Safety, use of technology, critical thinking and problem-solving skill attainment are embedded throughout the course.

Everyday Sculpture is an elemental introduction to the skills required to make 3D sculptural objects. Through building, design, techniques, basic contemporary sculpture history and theory that introduce new concepts and materials, this class examines the historic position of sculpture and builds a working, personalized knowledge of how it exists today as a 21st century art practice.

Introduction to Sports History is a semester course in which students will examine the ways in which sports reflect values, trends, and movements in society. Sports play a major role in American culture and form a substantial part of many people’s identities. Therefore, we can study society’s past, present, and future relationships with sports. We will examine sports’ intersection with social issues, economics, and history.

This course covers basic concepts and practice of digital art and photography, including understanding and use of the photopea, snapseed, pixlr, and google apps. The course will also cover basic computer and photographic equipment. As well as address aesthetic principles as they relate to composition, space, exposure, light and color.

In this course the student will be able to identify and understand major concepts regarding: Mental/Emotional Health, Social Well-Being, Bodily Functions, Human Sexuality, Alcohol and Drug Awareness, Fitness and Nutrition, and Disease and Illness.

 

This course will provide students with the required 24 hours of classroom instruction needed for individuals under 18 years old to work towards earning their drivers license.

This course meets the financial literacy requirement. Life Skills is a course created to help students with true "real life" skills for their lives now and in the future. It touches on a variety of content areas to help students feel more prepared once they take their next steps in life - whether that is college, trades, military, etc. The goal is that students who take this course will see the personal application of content.

Personal Growth and Wellness is a course designed for students to be able to become self-aware about themselves and others around them. Students will learn to identify and regulate emotions, how to set goals, how to become a productive citizen in their community, how to effectively communicate with others, and how to make decisions.