6-8 Curriculum
Middle Grades students required coursework includes Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies, PE/Health, and Computer Science.
Optional coursework includes Spanish, Writing Fun, and Art.
Math
Leading Curriculum
Supplemental Resources
NWEA Accelerator
A personalized learning tool for grades 3-8, MAP Accelerator reduces the manual work of differentiating math instruction by automatically integrating class rosters, MAP® Growth™ scores, and Common Core-aligned Khan Academy content to generate learning pathways—complete with lessons, instructional videos, and practice problems.
Prodigy
Prodigy is an engaging game-based learning platform for 1st to 8th Grade that Johns Hopkins University links to independent learning and higher standardized test scores by engaging and motivating students according to their individual needs.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education Math provides standards-aligned content specifically developed for diverse student learners and curated by experts. By adding real-world context to everyday math concepts, Discovery Ed transforms traditional math problems into relatable and relevant problems worth solving. It combines conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application to help all students develop a long-lasting mastery of mathematics.
English/Language Arts
Leading Curriculum
Supplemental Resources
Moby Max
MobyMax provides personalized learning experiences through an adaptive curriculum. The site creates an individualized education plan for each student, allowing gifted students to progress as quickly as they like while simultaneously ensuring that remedial students get the extra instruction they need.
Writable
Writable supports schools in organizing their writing programs around research-based instruction and feedback. Many students struggle with writing in elementary school, and Writable is a program to support students in becoming better writers.
Write Score
Write Score fully aligns to the Georgia Standards of Excellence for English Language Arts K-12 for Writing and provides materials to help measure and instruct on those standards.
Newsela
Newsela takes authentic content from the world's most trusted providers and turns it into learning materials that are classroom-ready. It provides a database of informational articles paired with assignments and activities for educators to use in their classrooms. The content within each piece of news can be adjusted to 5 different lexile levels, so the differentiation is built in to make the material accessible to all students.
Sora
The Sora student reading app is a state-of-the-art reading experience that allows K-12 students to borrow ebooks and audiobooks from their school's digital library collection. GCA has a collection of titles for students of all grade levels for both academic and aesthetic reading.
BrainPOP
BrainPOP is an essential engagement tool that allows both students and teachers to be involved in the learning process. BrainPOP offers curriculum based animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, and a breadth of additional resources for students.
FLOCABULARY Flocabulary is a vocabulary focused engaging digital resource that using videos to introduce standard based Science content. With Flocabulary, every lesson is an opportunity to bring the curriculum to life and reinforce core knowledge and skills.
Wordly Wise
Wordly Wise 3000® provides direct academic vocabulary instruction that develops the critical link between vocabulary and reading comprehension. Direct instruction of important, useful, or difficult words for each grade level helps students successfully comprehend content-area texts and improve test results
Science
Leading Curriculum
FLVS
FLVS Science offers a rigorous, robust K-12 digital curriculum to ensure students are college and career ready. FLVS courses are designed to provide a seamless learning experience within Canvas.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education Science provides engaging high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, creative collaboration tools, and practical professional learning resources to give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment. This resource is accessible through Canvas.
Supplemental Resources
Moby Max
MobyMax provides personalized learning experiences through an adaptive curriculum. The site creates an individualized education plan for each student, allowing gifted students to progress as quickly as they like while simultaneously ensuring that remedial students get the extra instruction they need.
Newsela
Newsela takes authentic content from the world's most trusted providers and turns it into learning materials that are classroom-ready. It provides a database of informational articles paired with assignments and activities for educators to use in their classrooms. The content within each piece of news can be adjusted to 5 different lexile levels, so the differentiation is built in to make the material accessible to all students.
IXL
IXL is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. IXL is an adaptive tool, so questions adjust to an appropriate level of difficulty to assess what students know and to provide next steps for academic growth.
Brain POP
Brain POP is an essential engagement tool that allows both students and teachers to be involved in the learning process. Brain POP is an engaging learning online program designed with relevance, depth, and humor to encourage kids on their unique learning paths.
FLOCABULARY
Flocabulary is a vocabulary focused engaging digital resource that using videos to introduce standard based Science content. With Flocabulary, every lesson is an opportunity to bring the curriculum to life and reinforce core knowledge and skills.
Social Studies
Leading Curriculum
Supplemental Resources
Brain POP
Brain POP is an essential engagement tool that allows both students and teachers to be involved in the learning process. Brain POP is an engaging learning online program designed with relevance, depth, and humor to encourage kids on their unique learning paths.
Study Island
Study Island, an Edmentum product, helps students in kindergarten through 12th grade master state-specific, grade-level academic standards in a fun and engaging manner. Study Island combines rigorous content that is highly customized to specific state standards in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies with interactive features and games that engage students and reinforce and reward learning achievement. Our online suite of products uses technology to transform education. All of our programs are designed to create a very user-friendly experience for students and teachers.
Education Galaxy
Education Galaxy provides award-winning online assessment for students to help prepare them for state testing. Education Galaxy is built 100% to your state standards and provides a highly-engaging and amazingly effective way for students to master all their state standards. Education Galaxy is a great tier 1 solution for practice, instruction, and assessment.
Moby Max
Moby Max provides personalized learning experiences through an adaptive curriculum. The site creates an individualized education plan for each student, allowing gifted students to progress as quickly as they like while simultaneously ensuring that remedial students get the extra instruction they need.
IXL
IXL is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. IXL is an adaptive tool, so questions adjust to an appropriate level of difficulty to assess what students know and to provide next steps for academic growth.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education Science provides engaging high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, creative collaboration tools, and practical professional learning resources to give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment. This resource is accessible through Canvas.
Character Education
Each month a character trait is featured in the Middle School Counseling newsletter. Teachers and staff are encouraged to nominate students who display the character trait of the month. Students who have been identified by their teacher as displaying the character trait of the month are recognized with a description of how the student has displayed the character trait of the month. To see if your child was recognized by a teacher or staff member, go to the Character Crusaders section of the Middle School Counseling newsletter.
August: Patience
September: Integrity
October: Respect
November: Tolerance
December: Compassion
January: Courage
February: Determination
March: Empathy
April: Honesty
May: Kindness
Electives
Art
Using the tools, tricks and techniques of professional artists, you’ll create people and objects that leap off the page. You’ll start with your sketchbook, and put down your ideas and impressions. You’ll develop those ideas by creating artwork based on the Elements and Principles of Art with an overall theme in Comics. You’ll finish with a collection of original artwork in a variety of formats that tells the story your way. We will have sketchbook, vocabulary, and art history activities in addition to Art projects. Expect each week to spend 1-2 hrs. to work on your art curriculum asynchronously. We will meet one time a week and while optional it is highly encouraged to attend as we will walk through the assignments and projects for that week. Contact Ms. Counts for 7th and 8th grade if you have any questions regarding this course.
