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COURSE: Accounting I
GRADE: 10-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Accounting I is a general bookkeeping class that primarily deals with proprietor and partnership accounting. Students will learn procedures for figuring expenses, revenue and payroll for a business. Basic accounting principles will be used to complete a business simulation. There is also a basic overview or corporate accounting and taxation. Students will use workbooks as well as computer based problems.
COURSE: Advanced Accounting
GRADE: 11-12
PREREQUISITES: Accounting I
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Advanced accounting is a continuation of Accounting I. Students will learn more in-depth accounting skills applied toward corporate work. Students will also be given computer time to complete automated accounting projects. Advanced Accounting should be advised for students planning on continuing their education in business.
COURSE: Advanced Agriculture Mechanics
GRADE: 10-12
PREREQUISITES: Ag. Mechanics
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In addition to the lessons listed in Ag Mechanics, Advanced Ag Mechanics students will do more building from scratch, especially catering to fabrication with design. The intent from students is to work a little more in depth on various projects and incorporate multiple areas into one project.
COURSE: Advanced Ag Welding
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Ag Welding I
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The students will design and construct a welding project demonstrating the safe use of arc, TIG, MIG and oxy-acetylene welders. Emphasis will be placed on out-of-position welding technique. Other topics: careers, cutting torch, plasma arc cutting, brazing, and TIG welding.
COURSE: Advanced Guitar
GRADE: 9 -12
PREREQUISITES: Beginning guitar and must provide own guitar.
CREDIT: 1/2 per semester
Advanced Guitar is designed for the more experienced player. This course focuses on advanced techniques and repertoire.
Traditional musical notation is emphasized through classical guitar music. Students will work more with finger dexterity and coordination as well as advanced chords and voicing techniques.
COURSE: Advanced Physical Education
GRADE: 10,11,12
PREREQUISITES: Health Enhancement I & II
CREDIT: 1/2 per semester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to promote and maintain lifetime physical fitness. The course will give learners the skills and knowledge in weight training, plyometrics, and physical conditioning through a variety of activities.
COURSE: Advanced Placement Calculus AB
GRADE: 12
PREREQUISITES: Precalculus or equivalent course work with consent of instructor. Successful completion of first semester is a prerequisite to second semester.
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Calculus AB is primarily concerned with developing the students’ understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The courses emphasize a multi-representational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The connections among these representations also are important.
AP Calculus intended to be challenging and demanding. Broad concepts and widely applicable methods are emphasized. The focus of the courses is neither manipulation nor memorization of an extensive taxonomy of functions, curves, theorems, or problem types. Thus, although facility with manipulation and computational competence are important outcomes, they are not the core of these courses. Technology should be used regularly by students and teachers to reinforce the relationships among the multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. Through the use of the unifying themes of derivatives, integrals, limits, approximation, and applications and modeling, the course becomes a cohesive whole rather than a collection of unrelated topics.
These themes are developed using all the functions listed in the prerequisites.
**course description courtesy of AP Central
COURSE: Advanced Placement Statistics
GRADE: 11-12
PREREQUISITES: Algebra II/Trig. Successful completion of first semester is a prerequisite to second semester.
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION: AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion and hard work of students and educators from both secondary schools and higher education. With more than 30 courses in a wide variety of subject areas, AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. The purpose of the AP course in statistics is to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data.
Students are exposed to four broad conceptual themes:
1. Exploring Data: Describing patterns and departures from patterns
2. Sampling and Experimentation: Planning and conducting a study
3. Anticipating Patterns: Exploring random phenomena using probability and simulation
4. Statistical Inference: Estimating population parameters and testing hypotheses
**course description courtesy of AP Central
COURSE: Ag. Woodworking
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Ag Woodworking provides the students the opportunity to plan and build individual projects using advanced construction techniques. Proper tool adjustment, safe tool use and quality workmanship will be emphasized.
COURSE: Ag Business
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is intended for the Ag-Ed student who is interested in the financial world of agriculture. All aspects of finances in the world of agriculture will be covered including financial instruments, credit, markets and marketing, financial strategies and entrepreneurship.
COURSE: Ag. Construction I
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for the Ag student who wishes to develop their skills in the area of construction. The course will be project based. Students learn the basic safety aspects of most construction tools and construction situations. They work as a group to build a stud framed building as a final project. No nail guns
COURSE: Ag. Construction II
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Ag. Construction I
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for the Ag student who wishes to develop their skills in the area of building construction. Students are shown a variety of different construction techniques for stud walls, stairs, log walls, different siding options, and roofing. Stress is made on ability to make cut lists, pricing and quality control.
COURSE: Agricultural Marketing
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The students will use a variety of methods and technologies to learn sales, marketing, and communication skills as they would be applied to agriculture. There will be extensive computer work, written and oral presentations to deliver sales and marketing messages. The final project is a team marketing assessment of a local business or one that the students would like to start in Big Timber.
COURSE: Agriculture Mechanics
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Small Gas Engine/Electrical Wiring
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In Ag Mechanics lessons on different areas of agricultural mechanics are given throughout the semester. Areas include: careers, hydraulics, levers, fabrication and engine basics. In between the lessons, students are given a chance to work on a mechanical project approved by the instructor. Safety issues are addressed throughout the class and are required at all times.
COURSE: Small Gas Engines/Electrical Wiring
Grade: 9-12
Prerequisite: None
Credit:1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for the student who has an interest in electrical wiring and small gas engines. The course will cover the principles of wiring and internal combustion engines and students will complete several wiring projects, as well as do a complete overhaul on a small gas engine. Students are given the opportunity to overhaul or repair engines from home.
COURSE: Ag Welding I
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The students will learn the safe use of the arc, TIG, MIG and oxy-acetylene welders. Proper welding technique and basic metal joint welding will be covered. The students will also learn the proper metal cutting method using oxy-acetylene and Plasma Arc equipment. Other topics: careers, electrode selection, tip selection, and metal identification
COURSE: Ag. Ed. I
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This is the introductory course to the Sweet Grass Co. High School Ag-Ed program. Students in this course will be exposed to the FFA, Parliamentary Procedure, Personal Development, SAE, Lab Safety and Fabrication and Planning of a project(s)
COURSE: Ag Ed II
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITE: Ag I
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is intended for the second year Ag-Ed students whose interest is more science based as opposed to mechanical based. Topics to be cover include SAE, Range Science,Agronomy, Fertilizers, Chemical Labels, Chemical Application Solving,Plant Science,Entomology, Water quality and Soil Science. This course provides the students a solid base for entering the plant and soil science careers and provides a strong basis for competition in the range and agronomy CDE areas.
COURSE: Agri-Science
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: ½
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to cover the new “areas” of agriculture. Topics include Embryology which includes hatching chicks as a project, Neo Sci Crime Scene Labs, a robotics project, Waste Water Lab and Water Testing Labs, Design & Development using a dragster kit and building a reel or fly rod project. This course will be a lab-based class with many lab activities to develop skills in the broadening areas of agriculture, including the Environmental Sciences.
COURSE: Agriculture Technology
GRADE: 10-12
PREREQUISITES: Geometry
CREDIT: ½
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for the mechanical or technology students who wish to develop their skills in various areas of agriculture technology. Areas to be covered include precision agriculture technology (GPS,etc.), Mechanical Drafting, with the main emphasis being Computer Aided Design using Auto CAD LT in the lab.
COURSE: Algebra I
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Pre-Algebra, successful completion of eighth grade mathematics, or consent of instructor. Successful completion of first semester is a prerequisite to second semester.
*Give careful consideration to your Algebra Prognostic Test score. Consult the instructor or the guidance counselor if you have any questions.
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The fundamental purpose of this course is to formalize and extend the mathematics that students learned in the middle grades. Because it is built on the middle grades standards, this is a more ambitious version of Algebra I than has generally been offered. The critical areas, called units, deepen and extend understanding of linear and exponential relationships by contrasting them with each other and by applying linear models to data that exhibit a linear trend, and students engage in methods for analyzing, solving, and using quadratic functions. The Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations.
** course description courtesy of Common Core State Standards
COURSE: Algebra II & Trigonometry
GRADE: 10-12
PREREQUISITES: Algebra I & Geometry, or as a co-requisite with Geometry with consent of the instructor. Successful completion of first semester is a prerequisite to second semester.
CREDIT: 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Building on their work with linear, quadratic, and exponential functions, students extend their repertoire of functions to include polynomial, rational, and radical functions. Students work closely with the expressions that define the functions, and continue to expand and hone their abilities to model situations and to solve equations, including solving quadratic equations over the set of complex numbers and solving exponential equations using the properties of logarithms. The Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations.
** course description courtesy of Common Core State Standards
COURSE: Algebra A
GRADE: 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Qualified through test scores, grades, and teacher recommendations. Successful completion of first semester is a prerequisite to second semester.
CREDIT: ½ per semester
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The fundamental purpose of this course is to formalize and extend the mathematics that students learned in the middle grades. Because it is built on the middle grades standards, this is a more ambitious version of Algebra I than has generally been offered. The critical areas, called units, deepen and extend understanding of linear and exponential relationships by contrasting them with each other and by applying linear models to data that exhibit a linear trend, and students engage in methods for analyzing, solving, and using quadratic functions. The Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations. Algebra A and Algebra B are equivalent to Algebra 1.
** course description courtesy of Common Core State Standards
GRADE: 11
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to meet the American History requirement for junior level students. The primary purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the people, events and forces that shaped the country in which we live. Particular emphasis is placed on better understanding of the complex nature of change and the interaction of various events and influences associated with it. America in Conflict focuses on the conflicts that America has been involved in and traces the causes, the outcomes and the impacts on peoples, countries and foreign relations. America in Conflict I focuses on the time period from Pre-Colonial through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
GRADE: 11
PREREQUISITES: None
CREDIT: 1/2
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is an in-depth look at social, cultural and political movements in America, the cause and effect as well as the impact those movements have on people, places etc. Movement topics include but are not limited to: Immigration, The Gilded Age, Social Reform, Industrial Revolution, Labor Movements, The Roaring Twenties, Age of Consensus (1950s), The Red Scare, Music, 1960s Counter Culture, Civil Rights, Vietnam Protests, and current issues in America.