Oak Hall Private School just released that they will be offering several new courses to students at the middle school and high school levels for the 2022/2023 academic school year. Students will now have more options in the arts, sciences and tech categories to choose from. Below are the classes and descriptions for each level that students can now enroll in.
UPPER SCHOOL, GRADES 9-12
Digital Fabrication and Robotic Arts
Digital Fabrication & Robotic Arts is an introductory course to teach students how to create art and develop practical solutions using the latest digital fabrication and interactive technologies. The semester will be broken into three parts each with a specific focus. The first section will cover vector drawing in 2D using Adobe Illustrator or similar software and projects will be produced with a laser cutter or CNC router. The second section will cover 3D drawing using Autodesk Fusion 360 or similar software and projects will be printed with a 3D printer. The final section will cover basic electronics and interactive arts using Arduino microcontrollers and software to program and create interactive projects.
Creative Woodworking and Production Creative
Woodworking & Production is a course intended to introduce students to general woodworking practices. Students will expand their knowledge and experience through various projects, lessons, and vocabulary. Students will be expected to learn about and safely use hand tools, power tools, and woodworking machinery. The projects are designed to give students as much experience as possible by using many different machines and tools. There will be a collaboration with Performing Arts and the One School Musical sets and stage props.
Global Economic Development & Public Policy
Global Economic Development & Public Policy is an elective course focused on inquiry-based learning to understand how the forces of the private and public sectors affect economic development. Using an interdisciplinary framework, students will inquire about the nature, causes, and potential policy solutions to address global issues. Topics include but are not limited to economic measurements, global institutions, migration, global health, and international trade.
Engineering Essentials
Engineering Essentials offers a multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning foundational concepts of engineering practice, providing students opportunities to explore the breadth of engineering career opportunities and experiences and solve engaging and challenging real-world problems. By inspiring and empowering students with an understanding of engineering and career opportunities, Engineering Essentials broadens participation in engineering education and the engineering profession.
Principles of Biomedical Science
In this course, students explore concepts of biology and medicine as they take on roles of different medical professionals to solve real-world problems. Over the course of the year, students are challenged in various scenarios including investigating a crime scene to solve a mystery, diagnosing, and proposing treatment to patients in a family medical practice, to tracking down and containing a medical outbreak at a local hospital, stabilizing a patient during an emergency, and collaborating with others to design solutions to local and global medical problems.
The Art and Science of Digital Audio
In this project-based class, students will learn fundamental Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) skills to explore sound, composition, and performance, and change the way they think about making music. This course will touch upon all of these fundamentals and cover aspects of production, sampling, effects processing, and workflow inside DAW software.
Classical Attic Greek
In this course, students will be introduced to the Greek language, Greek civilization, and classical mythology of Greece and Rome. This course will offer meaningful comparison of the Latin language taught in previous courses to the parallel language of Ancient Greek (mostly Attic dialect). Studies will focus on memorizing forms and vocabulary, analyzing forms, and translating sentences and passages from the textbook, From Alpha to Omega and ancillary digital flashcards. Daily quizzes will be based on vocabulary and forms, while class work and homework will come from the textbooks.
Advanced Placement Computer Science A
AP Computer Science A introduces students to computer science through programming. Fundamental topics in this course include the design of solutions to problems, the use of data structures to organize large sets of data, the development and implementation of algorithms to process data and discover new information, the analysis of potential solutions, and the ethical and social implications of computing systems. The course emphasizes object-oriented programming and design using the Java programming language.
Advanced Placement Human Geography
A.P. Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. Students also study the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. The A.P. Human Geography curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012). There are no prerequisites for this course; however, students are expected to be able to read a college-level text and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.
MIDDLE SCHOOL, GRADES 6-8
Global Studies: Business 7 & 8
Global Studies: Business is a semester long elective course open to 7th and 8th grade students. The course focuses on principals of business, economic systems, entrepreneurship, leadership, team building, and financial literacy.
Global Studies: Geography 7 & 8
Global Studies: Geography is a semester long elective course open to 7th and 8th grade students. With an emphasis on current events through document-based research, interactive technology, and project-based learning, students will examine the modern world through the lens of the five themes of geography: location, place, relationships within places (human-environmental interaction), relationships between places (movement), and regions.
STEM 6 / 7 / 8 Design and Modeling:
The Design and Modeling module provides students opportunities to apply the design process to creatively solve problems. Students are introduced to the unit problem in the first activity and are asked to make connections to the problem throughout the lessons in the unit. Students learn and utilize methods for communicating design ideas through sketches, solid models, and mathematical models. Students will understand how models can be simulated to represent an authentic situation and generate data for further analysis and observations. Students work in teams to identify design requirements, research the topic, and engage stakeholders. Teams design a toy or game for a child with cerebral palsy, fabricate and test it, and make necessary modifications to optimize the design solution.
STEM 6 / 7 / 8 Science of Technology:
In the Science of Technology module, students explore how science impacts the technology of yesterday, today, and the future. Students apply the concepts of physics, chemistry, and nanotechnology to STEM activities and projects, including making ice cream, cleaning up an oil spill, and discovering the properties of nanomaterials