Course catalog
Middle School
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WorldOver courses cover five academic categories. The lightbulb posted on each course indicates the primary category; our classes often cover more than one academic area. -
Electives
Digital Photography: Playing with Light
Create images and develop production skills through hands-on experiences with cameras, lighting, and software.
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Discovering Digital Art
Develop digital arts and media literacy fluency; evaluate and read images, critique art, and apply technical skills in digital art forms.
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Doodling, Drawing, and Design, Gr. 6-8
Develop core thinking skills, and exercise your brain through the processes of doodling, drawing, and designing.
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Exploring Activism Through Art
Study 3-D, print, and digital art, and apply what you learn to solve a pressing issue.
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Explore the Runway: Introduction to Fashion Design
Learn about the fashion design business — including research, collections, trends, sketching, and construction (so sewing skills required).
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Lightbot Boogie, Gr. 6-8
This course is appropriate for students who are new to programming and also students with considerable experience. Learners will map out 3D puzzle mazes and code them using Lightbot programming functions.
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Lightbot Programming, Gr. 6-8
Learn fundamental computer science programming and coding as you maneuver through mazes and solve puzzles.
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Pencil Code
Learn how to animate geometric designs and original songs and games in this beginning block coding class.
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Scratch Cat Sports Games
Take your computer science skills to a new level as you design and code your own multiplayer game.
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Electives
Stress Less: Yoga and Mindfulness for Beginners
Explore the physical poses, breathwork, and meditations of yoga. Students will use a combination of guided and independent practice.
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Superhero App Makers, Gr. 6-8
Design, code, and publish fully functional mobile apps for android smartphones and tablets in this introductory computer programming course.
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Sewing Through Time, Gr. 6-8
Learners will strive to answer the driving question — How can reproducing a garment or object from the past tell me about what it was like to live in that time period?
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Video Animation
Students will learn animation along with interdisciplinary skills by creating three video mini-projects.
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Video Production: Creative Characters
Gain skills in storytelling, complex character development, video sequencing, and image/video reading.
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Language
English as an Additional Language for Middle School, A
Build your English vocabulary and develop confidence in your ability to communicate when listening, reading, or speaking.
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Language
English as an Additional Language for Middle School, B
Expand on your reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills;use more complex grammar structures and learn about American culture.
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Humanities
Humanities 6/7 A: I Am a Social Scientist
Use social studies and technology to investigate your community and educate others about its uniqueness.
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Humanities
Humanities 6/7 B: Around the World in 8-Weeks
Sharpen your geography, language arts, and social studies skills as you learn about other cultures.
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Humanities 6/7 C: Hero? Zero?
Read a different short story each week and complete a character analysis. Create your own modern-day superhero and construct a short story for the character.
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Humanities 6/7 D: Eloquent Egyptologist
As students dive into Ancient Egyptian history, they will strive to answer the driving question – How can I bring awareness to untold histories?
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Humanities
Humanities 7/8 A: Finding Your Voice
Trace the history of activism and explore the lives and motivations of changemakers.
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Humanities 7/8 B: Planting the Seeds of Change
Read and analyze the text “Seedfolk.” Investigate how change happens, and design your own garden.
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Humanities 7/8 C: Do You Want a Revolution?
Read a different short story each week and complete a character analysis. Create your own modern-day superhero and construct a short story for the character.
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Humanities 7/8 D: Demanding Democracy
Learners will strive to answer the driving question – Is this the country the Founding Fathers envisioned?
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Language
Japanese for Middle School Sounds of Japanese
Read, write, and understand basic Japanese language using anime, arts and crafts, music, and stories.
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Japanese for Middle School: Japanese Crafts
Continue to build Japanese fluency (reading, writing, speaking) while creating unique crafts.
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Japanese for Middle School: Exchange Student Exploration
Students will virtually travel to Japan to deepen their Japanese fluency skills and their understanding of the culture. They will apply those skills on a local level.
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Language
Japanese for Middle School: Japanese Cooking
Step into the kitchen and participate in Japanese cooking activities that will help you develop your Japanese fluency.
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Language
Spanish for Middle School, A: Hablando
Build your Spanish fluency with daily speaking, listening, reading, and writing experiences.
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Language
Spanish for Middle School, B: Cocinando
Increase your Spanish fluency as you engage in conversational Spanish and discussions about various destinations.
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Spanish for Middle School, C: Cocinando Parte 2- Bienvenidos a Mi Restaurante
Continue to build your Spanish fluency as you engage in dynamic discussions based on restaurant settings and entrepreneurial skills.
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Spanish for Middle School, D: Adonde Vamos?
Learners will focus on the important role travel plays in building Spanish fluency.
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Humanities
Writing Workshop
The Writing Workshop is designed to support our learners throughout the school year. Students will strengthen their writing skills as they work on course papers and other writing of their choice.
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Math Gr. 6: Math A
Using various hands-on tools and techniques, Math A strengthens each students’ mathematical foundation — enabling them to move onto the next level.
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Math Gr. 7: Math A
Soar to new heights as you have fun figuring out slope, ratios, proportions, rates, and probability in the VR world.
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Math Gr. 8: Math A
Meet grade level standards, and solve equations in the virtual world as they relate problems in the real world.
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Math: Pre-Algebra A
Meet Pre-Algebra standards as you collaborate with peers to calculate ratios, proportions, and percentages.
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STEAM 6/7 C: The Final Frontier
Learners will explore more about light and color and how it is used to determine facts about objects in space. They will write a scientific question about a distant space object and use a light spectral signature to answer the question.
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STEAM 6/7 D: Putting Out the World’s Fire
Take this opportunity to create real change for our planet. Identify a prominent environmental issue in your community; research and formulate a plan to help fix this issue; present your project.
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STEAM 7/8 C: Nature vs. Nurture
Learners will research and take a position on gene modification in medicine or agriculture. They will present a persuasive argument to justify their position concerning the extent to which gene modification should be allowed.
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STEAM 7/8 D: Survival
Learners will investigate the adaptive traits that increase a species survival and apply that knowledge when designing and creating a display for a natural history museum.
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Electives
Virtual Reality Field Trip: Outer Space Voyage
Launch into space and explore satellites, shuttles, and starships. Multiple subject areas (history, science, math, language, technology) are incorporated in this experience.
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Virtual Reality Field Trip: Pirate Adventures
Explore pirate haunts and treasures, swim with sea creatures, and learn how to use the VR equipment in this introductory VR course.
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STEAM 6/7 A: Goodbye, Styrofoam!
Partner math with science to investigate alternatives to Styrofoam. Concepts include area, ratios, rates, percentages, data analysis, atoms, elements, and thermal energy.
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STEAM 6/7 B: Mechanics Mountain
Discover the math and science behind roller coasters. Learn about fractions, decimals, data analysis, and negative numbers, as well as energy, motion, and force.
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STEAM 7/8 A: #Self-Care: Geometric Patterns Meet the Science of Life
Adopt the mindset of an engineer, scientist, and mathematician while studying rigid transformations, angles, similarity, scale, slope, and various organ systems’ characteristics.
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STEAM 7/8 B: Renewal
Work to create a business that will reduce the effects of fast fashion. Explore algebraic expressions and equations, ecosystems, natural resources, and how humans impact the environment.
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Life Hacks
Life Hacks Gr. 6-8
Set goals, make a plan, and develop learning strategies while being supported by your academic coach. Life Hacks investigates social-emotional learning, life skills, and topics unique to you.
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Life Hacks
Morning Meetings Gr. 6-8
Interact with peers and discuss digital citizenship, global citizenship, and the Profile of the WorldOver Learner.
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Life Hacks
Personal Project with Mastermind Support
Choose a topic you are passionate about and develop a one-of-a-kind project over a period of quarters; mentoring, peer discussions, and brainstorming sessions included.
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Life Hacks
Tutoring
Attend personalized tutoring sessions with highly qualified facilitators for extra help.