Junior High Course Catalog

SEVENTH GRADE

COLLEGE AND CAREER AWARENESS {8010} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

College and Career Awareness is a core requirement for seventh-grade students. Students need to be prepared with 21st-century skills for the future. This class explores careers and skills based in six CTE Pathways: Information Technology, Business and Marketing, Health Science, Family and Consumer Science, Agriculture, Engineering, and Technology.   

EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY {8857} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Do you like to design and build things? Then Exploring Technology is the class for you! In this class you will explore different areas of technology and then design and build projects that relate to those technologies. For example: using the concepts of simple machines and energy and power technologies, you will be challenged to build a car that will go the furthest distance powered by a single mousetrap.  Students will learn the safe operation of woodworking tools and machinery to complete the challenges/projects for this class. 

WORD PROCESSING {8530} - REQUIRED CLASS 

(7TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT)

Students will create a variety of documents, increase efficiency, productivity, quality, and creativity through the use of basic and advanced software features.  Instruction on proper keyboarding technique and recommended styles for business documents will coincide with their software training. This class is helpful, but not required, to take prior to Creative Coding.

EIGHTH GRADE

DIGITAL LITERACY {8584} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT)

This course is an introduction to computer literacy. Students will have opportunities to use technology and develop skills that encourage creativity, critical thinking, productivity, and collaboration in the classroom and day-to-day life. Skills will be demonstrated by creating a project for a different content area. This course is aligned with national and international standards and the Utah Core to prepare students across multiple levels of skills. Students will complete this required course with a prerequisite to move into the high school Computer Technology course.

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE {8102}

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Students will develop knowledge and skills that will provide a foundation for courses in animal science, plant science, horticulture, and natural resources. Topics covered will be basic animal, plant and soil science; natural resources; food science technology; agribusiness; personal and leadership development; and agricultural career awareness. Through this course, students will develop agriculture literacy.

FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE (FACS) {8443} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

This fun course provides students the opportunity to develop skills related to Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS). Students will explore food and nutrition sciences, childcare, interior design, clothing and textile construction, fashion design and merchandising, consumerism, entrepreneurship, family relationships, personal responsibility, and career and job-related tasks. This course will strengthen comprehension of concepts and standards outlined in Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. 

BASIC READING SKILLS {4153}

(7-8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT)

This course is designed to help students who are not reading on grade level.  Students will receive targeted literacy instruction in phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension to improve their reading skills. Teacher approval required.

ART FOUNDATIONS I {1100} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

It is designed to provide an overview of Visual Arts while studying a broad variety of art tools and materials. With an emphasis on studio production, this course is designed to develop higher level thinking, art related skills, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics. 

ART FOUNDATIONS II {1103} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

 This is an entry-level course for the High School Visual Art Core Curriculum.  It is designed to provide an overview and introduction to Visual Arts through studying a variety of art tools and materials. With an emphasis on studio production, this course is designed to develop higher level thinking, art related skills, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics.

LANGUAGE ARTS 7 {4070} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE –FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT)

Tooele County School Districts 7th Grade Language Arts curriculum has been designed using the standards established by the State Office of Education and the Common Core. Students will learn a variety of skills including reading and interpreting literature, argumentative and informative essay writing, basic grammar, and an appreciation of elements of poetry and drama. The 7th grade curriculum has been designed to be educationally appropriate, challenging, and interesting. 

LANGUAGE ARTS 8 {4080} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE –FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT)

Tooele County School districts 8th Grade Language Arts curriculum has been designed using the standards established by the State office of Education and the Common Core. Students will learn a variety of skills including reading and interpreting literature, argumentative and informative essay writing, basic grammar, and an appreciation of elements of poetry and drama. The 8th grade curriculum has been designed to be educationally appropriate, challenging, and interesting. 

MATH 7 {5219} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE –FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT)

In 7th Grade Mathematics students will focus on developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three- dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and drawing inferences about populations based on samples. 

MATH 8 {5217} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE –FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT)

In 8th Grade Mathematics students will focus on formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations; grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships; and analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem. 

PE/HEALTH {7103} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Students will acquire knowledge, practice skills, and develop attitudes that can benefit them throughout life. Building a solid foundation of good literacy and decision-making skills can contribute to a variety of healthy choices for the self and others. The development of process, life skills, and attitudes has been incorporated throughout the entire curriculum. 

BEGINNING FITNESS {7600}

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Beginning Team Sports Activities is an entry-level course emphasizing beginner skills in a broad spectrum of activities in order to develop a foundation for future physical education classes. The course content is developmentally appropriate for seventh grade students who, in most instances, will be experiencing a formal physical education class for the first time. Students in Beginning Team Sports Activities are introduced to the elements of physical fitness and are responsible for learning the basic vocabulary. Pre and post fitness tests are appropriate, with results being used to provide personal information, individualize instruction, and indicate student improvement. 

INTERMEDIATE FITNESS {7650}

(8TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Intermediate Activities offers a wide range of developmentally appropriate activities that are increasingly complex in content, concept, and skill development and execution. Students continue to practice skills in modified form but begin to participate in regulation games with more complex playing environments than those experienced in Beginning Activities. Teams are kept small, allowing maximum participation and involvement by all students. Cooperative, as well as traditional sports activities, are included in the curriculum.

INTEGRATED SCIENCE 7 {3200} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Students will learn firsthand how science is a step-by-step, evidence-based process for learning about the natural world.  Throughout this course, they will practice and hone their science skills by investigating the following topics: how forces affect matter, the Earth’s changing surface, the structure of living things, reproduction and the passing down of traits, and how populations of organisms change overtime.  

INTEGRATED SCIENCE 8 {3240} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE – FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT – CLASS FEE)

Students will value and use science as a process of obtaining knowledge based on observable evidence. In this course, students will study a variety of concepts, including physical and chemical changes in matter, ecosystems, photosynthesis and respiration, food chains and webs, relationships between organisms, rocks and minerals, changes to Earth’s surface, geologic time, simple machines, gravitational force, light and sound energy, and more.

UTAH STUDIES {6100} - REQUIRED CLASS

(7TH GRADE – SEMESTER – ½ CREDIT)

Utah is a state diverse in landscape and people. This course is designed to help students understand the state of Utah at a deeper level by reviewing Utah’s early history and particularly emphasizing Utah from statehood to the present. Students will understand the interaction between Utah’s geography and its inhabitants, as well as the formative contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah pioneers. The course will also investigate relationships between government and the people of Utah, the many opportunities people have to make a living in Utah, the diverse nature of Utah’s people and cultures, and the impact of contemporary events on the land and people of Utah. The Utah Studies core is designed to meet the needs of a semester-length course.   

U.S. HISTORY {6121} - REQUIRED CLASS

(8TH GRADE – FULL YEAR – 1 CREDIT)

United States History for Grade 8 covers events and issues from the Age of Exploration through Reconstruction and the western movement, emphasizing the 18th and 19th centuries. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to: exploration, colonization, Revolutionary War, constitutional issues, nation building, Civil War, Reconstruction, and western movement. Although the emphasis of this course is on the 18th and 19th centuries, additional content may be covered as time permits.