Sandia Prep Curriculum Guide 2018 - 2019

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INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES DareDevil Design - NEW CLASS Grades 6-7 DareDevil Design is a workshop environment conducted in Sandia Prep’s Autonomous Creative Environment (SPACE) where students engage in creative, critical, and constructive processes to develop products, ideas, and projects to help communities. Daredevil Design will participate in nation-wide challenges such as the Future City Competition, in nonprofits such as the Lantern Project, and endeavors with local organizations. The DareDevil Design Exhibition Night at the end of the year showcases the student’s work. Students conduct a “Presentation of Learning” to demonstrate their skills, understanding, and growth. Entrepreneurial Studies: The Ecosystem of Innovation - NEW CLASS Grade 12 Entrepreneurial Studies is a senior capstone course. It develops an entrepreneurial mindset and teaches problem-solving skills that are essential to a student’s success later in life, through a semester-long course based in Sandia Prep’s Autonomous Creative Environment (SPACE). The course provides students an opportunity to work with Albuquerque entrepreneurs, who present real-world business problems outlined in a scope of work, complete with hard deliverables and deadlines. Over the course of a semester, students work in small teams on three different consulting projects with real start-up companies. Having done research, conducted customer interviews, and worked as a team to devise a solution, the students pitch their solutions directly to the business CEOs. In the fourth and final project, students work together to devise a concept for a business and pitch it “Shark Tank”-style to real investors. 5
MIDDLE SCHOOL We believe it is important for middle school students to learn skills in context. In particular, we teach critical thinking and study skills in each discipline rather than teaching them individually. At Sandia Prep, we want our students to discover the connections between subjects and to use these discoveries to explore and understand the world around them. Our middle school is a lively place where students develop close relationships with teachers and with their fellow students. We believe this web of relationships makes it possible for our students to take risks in a variety of areas. They can learn where their talents lie and develop the skills they need to grow intellectually and academically. Subject Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 English English 6 English 7 English 8 Mathematics Foundation of Mathematics Pre-Algebra Algebra 1 Science General Science Life Science Physical Science History World Cultures & Geography New Mexico History and the West U.S. History Art & Media Rotation Rotation: Art, Music, Computer/Keyboarding, and Drama Rotation: Art, Drama, Photography, and Computer/Coding No rotation Full year-long electives (See below) Modern Language French or Spanish French 1A or Spanish 1A French 1B or Spanish 1B Physical Education/ Health 6th Grade PE 7th Grade PE 8th Grade PE Electives Chorus, Guitar, Strings, Jazz Band, Study Hall or DareDevil Design Chorus, Guitar, Strings, Jazz Band, Study Hall or DareDevil Design Chorus, Guitar, Strings, Jazz Band, Study Hall, Digital Media & Filmmaking, Theater, or Engineering 6
Page 1: Curriculum Guide Middle School & Up
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS The Sandia Prep Program ..
Page 7 and 8: SANDIA PREP FACULTY The Prep facult
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Page 15 and 16: Students Entering Grades 12 in 2018
Page 17 and 18: ENGLISH Critical reading, logical t
Page 19 and 20: SENIOR ENGLISH COURSES During each
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Page 25 and 26: SCIENCE Sandia Prep endeavors to in
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Page 33 and 34: MIDDLE SCHOOL LANGUAGE MODERN LANGU
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Sandia Prep Curriculum Guide 2018 - 2019

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