Presentation Graphics

Instructor: JD Mulkey

Time Frame: 1 quarter

This is an introductory for Microsoft PowerPoint. Students will use this program to organize and present information in groups. PowerPoint helps make effective and proffesional looking presentations. PowerPoint can be used to create 35 mm slides, overheads, speaker notes, audience handouts, outline pages, or onscreen presentations.

Introduction to Web Design

Instructor: JD Mulkey

Time Frame: 1 quarter

Introduction to Web Design will give students basic knowledge of how to create a web site sing HTML codes. Students will create numerous small web sites.

Babysitting the Right Way

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will participate in the American Red Cross Babysitter Course. Students will discuss child developmnet, safety and infant and child CPR. Students will have the opportunity to recieve certification through American Red Cross. Students will discuss activities and games which are age appropriate. Students will have the opportunity to learn techniques on developing positive babysitting skills. First aid and CPR will be covered.

Creating Style 1

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will learn the basics of selecting and using sewing equipment including small sewing equipment, sewing machines and serger operation. Students will discuss proper care of clothing and basic repairs (hems, buttons, laundry). Students will have the opportunity to construct a personal item using the sewing machine.

FCCLA

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will be introduced to FCCLA. In class students will have the opportunity to learn about FCCLA as an extra-curricular activity and complete various projects which are of interests to students. Students will elect class officers and conduct busines meetings to plan activities and projects, such as red ribbon week activities and community service projects. Students will complete two national program modules. One will be completed as a class project and atleast one will be completed as an individual project. Students will have the opportunity to recieve local state and national recognition. The focus of FCCLA class will be leadership, Power of One and STOP the voilence.

Foods 1

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will learn basic nutrition, fod preperation techniques, and food safety. Students will be introduced to basic skills in the foods lab. We will also spend time learning cooking terms and commonly used measuring terms and techniques. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to increase and decrease recipes accurately. Students will practice food preperation techniques in the food lab.

Community First Aid

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

People need to know to do in an emergency before medical help arrives. Since you may be faced with an emergency in your lifetime, it is important that you know how to recognize an emergency and how to respond. The intent of this course is to help citizen responders feel more confident in their ability to act appropriately in the event of an emergency.

Exploratory Art 1

Instructor: Tyler Palmer

Middle school art emphasizes student's creative expresion and experimentation with a variety of art materials and tools. Projects will include skill development and problem solving in drawing, design, painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, lettering, and photography. Students will use sketchbooks as a place to work through visual problems, take notes and for reflective writing on completed projects.

Exploratory Chemistry 1

Instructor: Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This class will explore the world of chemistry with creative and innovative handson experiments and demonstrations. It will also involve some written work to assess progress in the class. The topics covered are the structure of matter, chemical reactions, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, industrial chemistry, electrochemistry, chemistry of toys, household chemistry, as well as an "explosive" finale.

Exploratory Chemistry 2

Instructor: Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will be introduced to Forensic Science. Skills the students will work on are fingerprint analyses by dusting for prints, using chemicals to develope a print on paper, simplified soil analyses including appearence of soil, testing by using direct light, UV light, polarized light, acidity of soil, range of particle sizes, and foot print identification, simplified hair analyses, including hair structure, determination of species, and a final test of the "Investigation of the murder of Mr. Paul Dudden" by applying skills learned throughout the class.

Exploring Science

Instructor: Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will be learning and doing hands-on projects related to topics covered in Science Olympiad competitiong and in regular science classes. Topics will change each nine weeks. Topics to be covered over the course of a year will be ANatomy, Astronomy, Awesome Aquifer, Balloon launch glider, Balloon race, disease detective, ecology, egg drop, heredity, mission possible, oceanography, road scholar, rocks and minerals, science crime busters, simple machines, storm the castle, tower building, wheeled vehicle, and write it do it. Students will be expected to participate in discussions, complete daily lab assignments in a timely manner, and follow lab safety rules. Topics will be graded on points earned for tasks completed. These projects will be graded based on lab data collection activities, project task completion, group participation, individual classroom participation, and completion of written assignments.

Sixth Grade Band

Instructor: Susan Pitcher

Time Frame: 1 Semester

This class offers students an opportunity to begin or continue studying their chosen instrument in a band setting. Students will study and play music in many different styles. THe students will perform at the spring concert and will participate in the annual middle school festival.

Exploratory Guitar

Instructor: Susan Pitcher

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This class offers students a chance to begin or to continue study of the guitar. Students will learn guitar basics including chords, strumming and picking patterns, string names, note names, tuning the guitarm and reading music. Students will play in a variety of keys.

Creating Style 1

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Creating Style 2

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will discuss proper care of clothing and basic repairs (patching, fixing tears, laundry). Students will have the opportunity to construct a personal item using the sewing machine and serger. Students will have the opportunity to use an embroidery machine, coverstitch machine and serger to complete class projects.

FCCLA

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Foods 1

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Students will learn basic nutrition, food preperation techniques, and food safety. Students will be introduced to basic skills in the foods lab. We will also spend time learning cooking terms and commonly used measuring terms and techniques. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to increase and decrease recipes accurately. Students will practice food preperation techniques in the food lab.

Community First Aid

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Individuals need to know to do in an emergency before medical help arrives. Since you may be faced with an emergency in your lifetime, it is important that you know how to recognize an emergency and how to respond. The intent of this course is to help citizen responders feel more confident in their ability to act appropriately in the event of an emergency. Students have the opportunity to recieve a Red Cross Certificate at the end of the course.

Leadership 101

Instructor: Cathe Felz

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This exploratory will focus on developing leadership through interactive games, activities and projects. The class is designed to let students practice various aspects of leadership by experiencing a situation, then discuss what happened to extract the essential elements that they will be able to apply to new situations. The course will explore a variety of topics including leadership, goal setting, problem solving, organization, communication, meetings and parliamentary procedure. Students will plan a variety of projects throughout the quarter to practice the skills learned in class.

Exploratory Art 1

Instructor: Tyler Palmer

Exploratory Art 2

Instructor: Tyler Palmer

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Second class in series. Middle school art emphasizes student's creative expresion and experimentations with a variety of art materials and tools. Projects will include skill development and problem solving in drawing, design, painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, lettering, and photography. Students will use sketchbooks as a place to work through visual problems, take notes, and for reflective writing on completed projects.

Exploratory Woodworking 1

Instructor: Jay McCurry

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This course is designed to provide the student with instruction and experience in basic woodworking using hand and selected power tools, metal fasteners, abrasive paper, adhesives, and finishing techniques. Projects will be made on an individual basis in addition to the introduction of a transportation modules.

Exploratory Woodworking 2

Instructor: Jay McCurry

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Second course in this area. This course is designed to provide the students with instruction and experience in basic woodworking usinh hand and selected power tools metal fasteners, abrasive paper, adhesives, and finishing techniques. Projects will be made on an individual basis in addition to the introduction of a transportation module.

Exploratory Lawnmower Maintnence

Instructor: Jay McCurry

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This course is designed to provide the student with instruction and experience in your lawnmower maintenance. Topics to be covered are ignition systems, air filter, blade sharpening, carburator adjustments, and oil changes.

Basic Computers

Instructor: JD Mulkey

Time Frame: 1 semester

Basic computers has been carefully designed to teach you what you need to start using computers yourself. You will learn about computer hardware and software. You will learn the basics of computing and learn important microcomputer applications. Word processing, spreeadsheet, database, and presentations will be covered in this semester course. When you leave this course you will have the knowledge to work on computers and specific programs without help from others.

Exploratory Foreign Language 1

Instructor: Linda Semones

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This elective is an opportunity for students to be exposed to Spanish. We will focus upon studying conversational topics and learning basic dialogs and vocabulary. We will also learn about various Spanish-speaking countries around the world. Students will be required to actively participate in this class, through many hands-on activities and learning games. Students will be exposed to the numbers, colors, and the basic dialog to meet a new person and say what they like to do. This is a great course to serve as a bsis for foreign study in high school.

Exploratory Foreign Language 2

Instructor: Linda Semones

Time Frame: 9 weeks

This elective is a continuation of the first course offering. The emphasis of this class is communication, and the students will communicate through a variety of projects depending on the skills in the class. The options include putting on a style show, creating a family storyboard, presenting a weather report, which is taped, and presenting a skit about ordering a crazy pizza. Students will be required to participate actively in the class in the games, projects and readings. By completing Foriegn Language 1 and 2, the students should feel confident in their skills and have much success in high school foriegn langage.

Junior High Choir

Instructor: Susan Pitcher

Time Frame: Tuesdays and Thursdays for a Full year

This class offers students a chance to learn how to sing in a choral style. Correct sound production techniques including breathing, placement and diction are emphasized along with basic part reading and aural skills. Students will study music of various styles including classical, musical theater and pop. Students usually have two to three performances a year.

Junior High Band

Instructor: Susan Pitcher

Time Frame: 3 days a week for a full year

This class offers students an opportunity to continue studying their chosen instrument in a band setting. Students will reinforce previously learned skills and continue to learn new music skills. They will study and play music in many different styles including classical, contemporary, theater music and pop. Students will have the opportunity to audition for and perform with the Three Forks Pep Band. In addition to Pep Band, students also perform for atleast two school concerts. They have a opportunity to attend a junior high music festival with several other schools from the surrounding area.

Montana Indian Studies

Instructor: Becky True

Time Frame: 1 semester

Montana Indian Studies is designed to address seven essential understanding outlined in Montana's "Indian Education For All". Information is presented about American Indians in general,but for the most part, the class will focus on the reservations and tribes in Montana. Aside from a brief history of US federal policies taht have affected all Indian tribes, the class will focus on contemporary tribal culture and issues. The class includes discussion, reading, integrated art activities, musical activities, films, and guest speakers. It is organized into tribal and reservation groups for small group projects.

Middle School Health & Physical Education

Instructor: Tracy Welter, Jody McCurry

Time Frame: Full year

Physical Education (3 quarters):Junior High physical education offers students a chance to learn rules and basic fundamentals of various individual and team sports. Students will be given and opportunity to enhance their motor skills through participation in these sports.
Health (1 quarter):In Health, students will study personal hygiene, sexual education, and the negatives of many drugs including alcohol and tobacco, and mental, social, and physical health.

6th grade Language Art

Instructor: Linda Koelzer, Jenifer Kearns

Time Frame: Full year

This course encompasses English, Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling, Writing and Public Speaking. English includes grammer, punctuation and the various aspects of correct composition. Reading is the actual reading of short stories and novels along with reading comprehensoin. Vocabulary words will be intrduced weekly. Spelling includes new words weekly and the correct aplication of phonics in everyday spelling.

6th grade World History

Instructor: Linda Koelzer

Time Frame: Full year

This course will cover World History the times of prehistoric man up through the middle ages. It touch on the highlights of the earliest civilization and continue through the modern civilizations of the world during this time period. World History also deals with key individuals and groups of people that have played important parts down though the ages. Geography lessons are also included in each chapterand in separate Geography units.

6th grade Science

Instructor: Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: Full year

Sixth grade science will introduce to three major science areas; Life Science, Physical Science,and Earth Science. Life science will introduce topics such as the cell, flowering plants, evolution, the human body as well as ecology. Physical science will introduce students to light, sound, electrical energy, elements, compounds, chemical and nuclear energy. Eart science will include units on space, the Earths plate movements and weather.

6th Grade Math

Instructor: Lacy Noble

Time Frame:Full Year

Sixth grade math will consist of a series of lessons and investigations that are carefully sequenced to incrementally develope a spectrum of mathematics skills and concepts. Each lesson will include mental math practice, a new topic, and a problem set that reviews the current lesson and previous lessons. Students will be tested after every ten lessons.

Remedial English

Instructor:Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: Full year

Remedial English is for those students who have been identified by their teacher as struggling in the regular classroom. This allows for the approvement of basic skills in writing, reading and grammar. Teacher recremendation required for students in grades 6,7 & 8.

7th grade English

Instructor: Jenifer Kearns

Time Frame: Full year

In this course students combine the study of Literature, writing and grammar. Some of the include Newspaper writing, folk talesand myths, poetry,The Foxman (novel), and The Cay(novel). Students will write expository and persuasive essays, as well as writing creativily using poetry and short stories. Learning to write a fully developed unified paragraph is acourse goal. Students will read on thier own each semester outside the classroomand complete a book projecteach semester. In addition. major "Island Project" related to the novel The Cay will culminate the year.

7th grade Science

Instructor: Steven Hamilton & Kathy Rutherford

Time Frame: Full year

Science is more than science. It is science plus technology and their combined impact on society. Students in 7th grade science will gain an understanding of these realtionships. They will also gain an understanding of important science concepts, processes, and ideas. Students are expected to develope high-order thinking skills and learn to use science to solve problems in the real world. Science involves more than books and labratories. It involves thinking, doing and communcating results with peers and other scientists in the local community and the world. To that end, students participating in individual investigations of their own design, present their own projects at the local, regional and state science fairs.

7th grade Montana History & World Geography

Instructor: Linda Koelzer

Time Frame: 1 semester

World geography is based around the four basic elements. 1.tools for succesful map and graph usage. 2. Knowledge of place and regions in our world. 3. physical characteristics and ecosystem of the Earth. 4. humans, their societies, in relationship to the enviroment. We will be spending time in South America, Central America,Australia, New Zeland, Oceania and Antacrtica. Montanas History encompasses goelogy, geography, Indian History, early exploration and fur trade, mining, cowboys and homesteaders, recreation, and transportation of our state of Montana. Besides classroom work we will be working interactively with our community and around the area of Three Forks.

7th Grade Math

Instructor: Ginger Zieglowski

Time Frame: Full year

This class is the transition period for students who will be making a decision as freshmen to either take the college-bound math courses or the career-vocational math courses. Because of this, we need to try and get students ready for the college bound courses, primarily because ninety percent of the freshmen tend to head in that direction. The text book is an excelerated edition with some challenging problems. The students will be shown a variety of mathmatical concepts from algebra to geometry. We also provide problems that require students to use their math skills in real-life situation.

8th grade Math

Instructor: Greg Heys, Jody McCurry

Time Frame: Full Year

8th grade Remedial Math

Instructor: Jody McCurry

Time Frame: Full year

This class involves using hands-on activities to explore how math is used in every day life. This class works through percents, ratios, equations and geometry. This is a great class for students who like to work at a slower pace and for students who tend to struggle in math. Students are expected to participate in discussions, complete daily assignments, and attend class regulary.

Algebra 1

Instructor: Greg Heys, Lacy Noble

Time Frame: Full year

This course is primarily for college bound students. We wil be using the textbook Algebra 1 An Integrated Approach. The following topics will be covered in the course. Number patterns and the relationships, solving equations, real numbers/quadriatic equations, language of algebra and geometry, number theory, statistics, proportions/percent, mathmatically modeling, basic geometry, triginometry, coordinate geometry, technology and graphing. Teacher approval is required for 8th grade students.

8th grade English

Instructor: Erin Murphy, Jody McCurry

Time Frame: Full year

In this course students combine the study of literature, writing, and gramar. Students begin to learn the skills necessary to write an expositoryessay, but they also write creatively by writing myths, poems, and short stories. Some of the units covered include mythology, Down River(novel), reading comprehension, essay writing, short stories, poetry, and The Outsiders. Students will read on their own each semester out of class and complete a book project each semester. Oral speach presentation skills will be emphasized through the use of debate, presentations, mock "trials," and other activities.

8th grade Physical Science

Instructor: Cheryl Lehr

Time Frame: Full year

This is a required course for 8th grade students. The class studies the physical world through the both concept developement and labratory experiences. Topic areas covered include the scientific method, matter, acceleration, force, motion, work, simple machines, energy sources, waves, sound, light, lasers. Students also do independant projects throughout the year. Some of these projects are science fair projects, mission possible projects, and student generated laser light show.

8th grade American History

Instructor: Jeff Strickland

Time Frame: Full year

This class begins with the study of early Western European History and how it influenced the start of the Spanish and Anglo-American history of the Americans. This class will continue to study the chronilogical history of the North American Continent. The course will conclude during the Worl War II period.

8th grade Careers

Instructor: Kris Ford, Joan Wycoff

Time Frame: 9 weeks

Resource Room

Instructor: Becky True, Jenifer Kearns

Time Frame: Full Year

Students access the Resource Room to accommodate I.E.P goals and objectives. Resource Classes replace the regular education curriculum, or address functional life skills. Students learn study skills and strategies to be successfull in their regular classes.

Title 1

Instructor: Pam Carey

Time Frame: Full Year

Title 1 is a supervised study hall that provides support to students and teachers in their mutual effort of individual academic success. Title 1 provides support for students to overcome challenges they encounter in their regular education classes. This effort works towards decreasing the failure rate of students. I work with students, teachers counselors, administrators, and parents to help guide students towards curriculums that realistically prepare them for post high school. Students use the allotted period to complete work recieving assistance if needed. They may also come in during class work time for help and test taking assistance.