High School Electives Survey

If you like cameras, computers, and Photoshop, this class is for you. Desktop Publishing teaches you how to take good pictures, adjust and work with those pictures, and make presentations that are interesting and interactive. Bonus: The skills you learn in this class allow you to design cool presentations for all your classes as you go through high school.

This course is a basic introduction to some of the tools and processes in a woodshop. The student will learn how to use a variety of hand and portable power tools, a variety of power sanders, the drill press, the scroll saw, the band saw, the planer, and the lathe. The student will also become familiar with measuring, layout, shaping, gluing, laminating, and finishing. Of major emphasis will be the safe use of tools in a shop setting. The students typically build and box with hand tools only, a band saw project of their choosing and a tool box.

This course is a continuation of learning how to use the tools and processes in a woodshop. The student will learn how to use a variety of hand and portable power tools, a variety of power sanders, the drill press, the table saw, the band saw and the planer. The student will also become familiar with measuring, layout, shaping, carving, gluing, laminating, and finishing. Of major emphasis will be the safe use of tools in a shop setting. Students will be given the opportunity to use hand tools to connect wood together. They will do a carving project and finish off with building a shelf of their choosing.

This course is an introduction to video editing and video production as well as discussions of the use of the medium of video with respect to God’s Word for grade 8 and 9 students. For the most part students will get to work with cameras and computer editing software. However, some planning and a tad bit of acting is also needed to produce a complete an interesting video presentation!

The course will give students further development to the basic woodworking tools. How to use the tools, the various parts and accessories, and the basic adjustments for each specific tool will be covered. Of primary importance will be safety in a shop setting as well in specific tool use. The student should become reasonably familiar with the basic woodworking processes: reading plans, measuring, layout, shaping, gluing, laminating, jointing, sanding and finishing. The first unit will focus on design and drafting. After that the students get lots of choice with what they are building. Some examples include a gumball machine, marble track or a bat box. The final project of the semester is an Adirondack chair.

Students will learn how to use their cameras to their fullest potential to create photographs that are truly artistic. This course will cover photography styles, photo editing, location scouting, trip planning, editing, mobile photography, and of course, camera theory and knowledge.

This course gives students with an entrepreneurial mindset the opportunity to build a website that showcases a service or product they provide. Using Wix, students will build a fully functional, professional grade website either for themselves or for a real client in our immediate community.

In the student’s fourth year of woodworking, they will take all the skills they have learned and apply them to their projects. The first unit will focus on design and drafting. This unit will culminate in the student constructing a foldable outdoor table, designing and drafting it, and then manufacturing it. Other units will include students working with the lathe, finely finishing a hallway table and working in a group building a foldable bench/picnic table.

Students will gain an understanding of biology that occurs in their world. Students will also realize that all of biology is part of God’s creation, where He created order and design. Students will need to demonstrate good lab techniques and be able to draw good conclusions from the labs. Some of the topics covered include Creation, Evolution, Viruses, Bacteria, Fungi, Plants and Animals. In the second term of this class the students perform quite a few dissections. This is a great class to take, especially if you are thinking of taking biology at the grade 12 level. It is a very good transitional class to take between Science 10 and Biology 12.

The students will learn the basic principles of the Internal Combustion Engine, how a vehicle works and basic repair of vehicles and small engines. They will become familiar with small four stroke motors. The students will learn how to disassemble and reassemble these motors, checking measurements and clearances to specifications. They will gain practical experience by repairing small two or four stroke motors. The students will also gain an understanding of automotive ignition systems, charging systems, fuel injection, braking systems and basic tune-ups. The students will learn good shop safety practices along with the knowledge of how to use a variety of mechanics tools. The student will have the opportunity to see if God has gifted them in the area of small motors and basic automotive repair and knowledge.

Through participation in Volleyball 11, students will develop knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to improve their skills in the game of volleyball. Students will be working together and helping each other improve their skills throughout the semester. Students will be encouraged to self reflect on their game and make improvements from week to week.

Through participation in Basketball 11, students will develop knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to improve their skills in the game of basketball. Students will be working together and helping each other improve their skills throughout the semester. Students will be encouraged to self reflect on their game and make improvements from week to week.

Ever wonder how your favourite athlete trains during the season? Do they have a specific routine that they religiously follow or do they use multiple avenues of training to stay in shape? This course will focus on building strength, muscle, and cardiovascular endurance as students train their bodies using a crossfit/calisthenic approach.
*Class size limited. This course is recommended to those who are already involved in regular physical activity.

This course is built to provide students with the information necessary to tackle life’s hardest questions as they move into life after high school. To be someone who practices apologetics is to be someone who not only believes in something but knows why they believe it. This course will focus on examining tough cultural issues from a biblical perspective such as: How can we know Christianity is the one true religion? How can we believe in miracles in an age of science? How can a loving God send people to Hell? and many more!

This is a great course to take if you’ve ever asked “what will we use this for in our real lives?” as it gives you an understanding and language about how your body works and how to discuss it with a medical professional. In this course students will investigate the inner workings of the human body, specifically cellular biology and body systems (ex. digestive system, circulatory system etc.). Students will be shown the complexity and intricacy of the human body and begin to build connections between the working of the human body and our roles in the Church, the body of Christ. While you do not have to have taken Life Sciences 11 to take this class, it is strongly recommended that you have taken at least one of Life Sciences 11, Chemistry 11 or Physics 11 before taking on this complex course.