Post on 13-Apr-2018
7th Grade Arts Courses
Semester Courses
• Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing
• Family and Consumer Science (FACS)
• Gateway To Technology: A
• Ceramics Studio
• Studio Art
• Exploratory Theater
• TV Production
Full Year Courses
• Band
• Orchestra
• Chorus
• Drama Performance
• Gateway To Technology:A/B
• Yearbook
7th Grade Elective Course:
Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing
Students will use a variety of publishing software, such as PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Google Slides, and Photoshop, to create professional-looking and visually appealing digital creations. Students will use school digital cameras to take pictures around the school, and use their photos to create projects.
Students will learn and practice:
Effective use of digital camera and digital photography
Downloading, saving, manipulating photos
Principles of effective graphic design
Just a tiny example of the amazing things we create!
7th and 8th Grade Elective Choice:
Yearbook Class
Student in this class become a staff, work as a team, and publish the yearbook!
Students will learn basic principals of publishing, layout design and photojournalism.
What makes it so special? It is a lot of fun, students have a very important job to do; their work become a part of Pyle history; it sometimes involves a lot of work.
Students in this class must be hard workers, very responsible and very motivated!
Olivia and Miku snapping a photo in the hall.
Lauren finding a creative angle!
John M. and Amir viewing a photo of a student viewing a photo.. meta.
Choosing a theme, cover, style and color scheme
Taking photos throughout the year
Learning principals of layout design
Designing pages
Selecting photos, captions, headlines and text
Research includes finding out who is who, what is their real name
Matching names with faces
Publicizing the yearbook throughout the year
Sorting and delivering the books when they arrive in the spring.
Yearbook Class
Creating the yearbook involves:
Nico edits a spread layout while listening to music.
John B. and Ryan D. cruising the hall for a good photo op.
Margot and friends busy at work.
7th grade students may select to take Gateway To Technology: A (semester) or Gateway To Technology: A/B (full year) as part of the Pre-Engineering Pathway.
• Accelerated Pre-Engineering Pathway
• Pre-Engineering Pathway
Gateway To
Technology-A/B:
Grade 7
full year
Introduction to
Engineering Design
A/B: Grade 8
full year
Principles of
Engineering: Grade 9
full year
Other HS or AP
Credit Courses
Introduction to Design
& 3-D Modeling:
Grade 6
9 weeks
Energy & the
Environment:
Grade 6
9 weeks
Gateway To
Technology-A:
Grade 7
semester
Gateway To
Technology-B:
Grade 8
semester
Introduction to
Engineering Design
A/B: Grade 9
full year
Introduction to Design
& 3-D Modeling:
Grade 6
9 weeks
Energy & the
Environment:
Grade 6
9 weeks
Gateway To Technology: Ais divided into 2 Units
Magic of Electrons and Science of Technology
In Magic of Electrons we
• Learn about electricity
• Create a DC motor
• Design & Fabrication Circuits
In Science of Technology we
• Design, create and race Magnetic levitation vehicles
• Design, create and race Dragsters cars
• Design and test Rube Goldberg projects (like Mousetrap Game)
Gateway To Technology: Bis divided into 2 UnitsFlight & Space and Automation & Robotics
In Flight & Space we
• Learn principles of flight
• Make and fly Gliders
• Design and create motorized airplanes
In Automation & Robotics we
• Create mechanisms using Fisher Technik kits
• Program machines/robots created to solve problems
• Complete an Assembly Line using the robotic parts and computer program.
Instrumental Music Department
Promoting individual musical growth, ensemble-building, and leadership!
Intermediate Band
• Cultivate leadership skills.• Perform three concerts
each year.• Participate in the MCPS
Band Festival.• Compete at the Hershey
Park Music Festival.
• Refine instrument tone production and technique. • Dive into music vocabulary and theory.• Build the Pyle musical community and strengthen friendships!• Engage in ensemble clinics with professional musicians.
Advanced Orchestra
• Cultivate leadership skills.• Perform three concerts
each year.• Participate in the MCPS
Orchestra Festival.• Travel to New York City
for an orchestra clinic and weekend of fun!
• Refine string instrument tone production and technique.• Dive into advanced music vocabulary and theory.• Join the 8th grade string players and develop new friendships!• Engage in ensemble clinics with professional musicians.
Jazz Band • Tuesdays after-school.• Develop advanced
woodwind technique.• Experience “chamber
music” small-ensemble-playing.
• Learn a variety of repertoire, from classical to jazz to contemporary.
• Perform four concerts each year.
• Have fun in an advanced ensemble!
Flute & Clarinet Choir
• Tuesdays after-school.• Saxes, Trumpets, Low
Brass, Keyboard, Guitar, Bass, Drum set.
• Develop the fundamentals of jazz ensemble playing.
• Dive into Jazz Theory and improvisation.
• Perform in four concerts each year.
• Have fun in an advanced ensemble!
Audition-Based Ensembles:
7th Grade Chorus Award winning choral group in county, state,
and regional competitions.
All are welcome. No prior experience necessary.
Exciting course designed to strengthen the voice, sharpen skill in music, and perform with friends and classmates.
Perform a wide variety of choral music including classical, pop, musical theatre, folk, rock, and more.
Explore the fundamentals of musicianship and choral singing including reading and interpreting the score, vocal health and sound production, singing successfully through the changing voice, and singing within an ensemble.
Perform in two major concerts and participate in performance field trips including traveling to a music competition and festival in NYC.
Excellent opportunity to make new and lasting friends.
Ceramics Studio
• Explore various historical cultures and artists.
• Explore the manipulation of tools
• Develop techniques and skills.
7th Grade TV Studio
Learn the Ken Burns Effect in iMovie with the Wiesner Project
Get your license to film
and create video
projects in groups
7th Grade Arts Courses
Semester Courses
• Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing
• Family and Consumer Science (FACS)
• Gateway To Technology: A
• Ceramics Studio
• Studio Art
• Exploratory Theater
• TV Production
Full Year Courses
• Band
• Orchestra
• Chorus
• Drama Performance
• Gateway To Technology:A/B
• Yearbook