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Ottawa Middle School
Program Of Studies
Grades 6-8
The middle school program provides a gradual transition between life in the elementary school and life in the high school, but is an experience apart from both. The Ottawa Middle School provides:
Students at the middle school level learn in a variety of different ways. Teachers use various strategies to meet the needs of all students. Hands-on classroom activities, individual and group activities, inquiry based teaching, cooperative learning, lectures, seatwork, homework, experiments, reports, and field trips are some of the strategies implemented at the middle school level.
Middle school students are exposed to various types of classes. In addition to the required courses of language arts, math, science, and social studies, there are exploratory courses students may attend. Exploratory courses include art, family and consumer science, technology, woods, keyboarding, physical education, music, chorus, beginning band, health, clothing, foods, and web page building.
The library media program at Ottawa Middle School is integrated with the regular instructional program. The library media specialist and classroom teachers work cooperatively to provide students opportunities for learning including research, analyzing and evaluating information, and to appreciate literature.
In addition to academic programs, there are a variety of extracurricular activities students may take part in as well. There is an after school program that not only offers students homework help, but opportunities to explore drama, hobbies and sports. Sports teams students may be involved in include football, basketball, and volleyball.
The opportunities available at Ottawa Middle School are the result of careful planning on the part of many groups of people - school administrators, teachers, and parents. If you have any questions about the programs offered, please contact your child's teacher and/or the administration at Ottawa Middle School.
Sixth Grade
The Ottawa Middle School sixth grade is made up of two teams, the Horizon Team and Twister Team. Each team is comprised of approximately 100 students and four teachers. The four teachers are responsible for teaching the core classes of language arts, science, social studies, and math. Students then have two exploratory classes during the day as well. Students are assigned lockers for books and personal items. Additionally, each sixth grade student has a physical education locker in which to store gym clothes and a towel.
Sixth grade students have an activity class before lunch. The activity classes include physical education/health and music. The activity classes alternate so students have PE and the music class of their choice every other day throughout the year. Students are also enrolled in one exploratory class at all times. Exploratory classes last for seven weeks then the student moves on to a different exploratory class. By the end of the year all sixth grade students have taken all five exploratory courses offered.
Required Classes |
Activity Classes |
Exploratory Classes |
| Language Arts | Physical Education/Health | Art |
| Mathematics | Music | Technology |
| Science | Chorus | Woods |
| Social Studies | Beginning Band | Family & Consumer Science |
Course Description - Sixth Grade
Required Classes
Language Arts
Lessons focus on the development of skills in seven areas of Language Arts:
Reading and spelling are also components of Language Arts. Students be expected to understand phonetic elements of words, understand what they read, locate, evaluate, and organize information, and think critically. Students will be exposed to a variety of reading materials in an effort to foster a love of and an appreciation for reading.
Math
Sixth grade math provides review and reinforcement of the basic skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Estimating, percents, ratios, integers, measurements, graphing, extended geometry, and problem solving are also covered.
Science
Earth and space science is the focus at sixth grade. Topics include rocks and minerals, astronomy, weather, and plate tectonics.
Social Studies
The sixth grade course emphasizes World History and Ancient Civilizations. Students will study civics/government, geography, and world history concepts.
Course Description - Sixth Grade
Physical education is required for all sixth grade students. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to enjoy a physically active, healthy lifestyle. Health education is integrated into a variety of areas. Students will learn the importance of positive relationships; health risks that impact behavior and bodily harm; nutrition that leads to healthy bodies; and human biology as it related to adolescents.
Students will not be expected to perform, but will learn about musical instruments and different styles of music.
Students will be divided into appropriate voices and work daily on repertoire with several different parts. General music concepts will be reinforced through literature. Students are expected to participate in one concert per grading period.
The following will be emphasized in beginning band: ensemble and performance skills, posture, tone, intonation, breathing scales, and use of the above skills in expressive musical performance. Students are expected to participate in the Christmas parade, Winter Concert, and the Spring Concert.
Exploratory Classes
Art 6
Students will have the opportunity to learn the basic techniques employed in drawing design and color.
Family and Consumer Science 6
This introductory class includes food preparation and beginning sewing skills. Students will learn about and use basic cooking equipment and appliances to prepare simple recipes. Nutrition and wellness will also be a part of the curriculum. A locker caddy will be made using hand sewing skills as well as the sewing machine.
Introduction to Technology
Students will learn how to work in modules that are made up of computers and hands-on lab equipment. They will learn about various types of power and basic industrial technological systems.
Woods 6
This course is designed to instruct students in beginning safety in using hand tools and other machines such as a band saw, drill press and miter saw. Students will be constructing projects using the band saw, drill press, miter saw, table saw, router table, and other hand and power tools.
6th Grade Technology
Students learn basic keyboarding skills and work on projects that use most of the desktop publishing software. Students create papers, charts, graphs, collages, memo boards, mouse pads, address labels and PowerPoint presentations. Students create presentations that integrate graphics, animation, background schemes, and import pictures into their presentations.
Seventh Grade
The Ottawa Middle School seventh grade is made up of two teams, 7.com and the Explorers. Each team is comprised of approximately 100 students and four teachers. The four teachers are responsible for teaching the core classes of language arts, science, social studies, and math. Students are also required to take Physical Education/Health for 18 weeks and keyboarding for 9 weeks during the school year. They then have elective classes they may choose from which include art family and consumer science, industrial technology, woods, chorus, music, and band. Students are assigned lockers for books and personal items. Additionally, each seventh grade student has a physical education locker in which to store gym clothes and a towel.
| Required Classes |
Electives (9 week classes) |
Electives (year-long) |
| Language Arts | Art 7 | Band 7 |
| Mathematics | Family & Consumer | Music |
| Science | Intro to Industrial Technology | Chorus 7 |
| Social Studies | Beginning Band | |
| Science 7 | Woods 7 | |
| Technology | ||
| Advanced Technology |
Course Description - Seventh Grade
Required Classes
Language Arts
English 7 provides for the development of basic skills in the broad language arts area including spelling, grammar, handwriting, creative writing, literature, poetry, and six trait writing. Improvement of reading skills with an emphasis placed on comprehension is also stressed.
Mathematics
This course provides for the review of basic skills along with work on percents, practical and theoretical geometry and consumer math. Problem solving is also stressed.
Science
This course emphasizes life science. It is a study of features and functions of living things, ecology, and heredity. The students will be involved in a hands on approach through activities, experiments, and demonstrations.
Social Studies
This course provides a study of world geography and its people. A study of cultures and a variety of map skills is also provided. In addition, a daily review of current events helps students become aware of local, state, national, and international events.
Physical Education/Health
Students will be taught to apply physical education to life circumstances by learning how about physical fitness needs, nutrition, wellness, and cardiovascular capacity. Students also learn the components of sportsmanship in sports and recreational activities as well as improving knowledge and skills in various sporting activities.
Course Description - Seventh Grade
Students rotate through different modules and utilize keyboarding skills. Modules are made up computers, video-viewers, and other type of laboratory equipment.
This is a continuation of Art 6. Some of the projects to be done include basic design, study of shapes, color exploration, perspective and cartooning.
Students will study the following:
Sewing - Students will use sewing machines to complete a project;
Foods and Nutrition will be studied through kitchen procedures and learning about the nutritional value of foods served for breakfast, lunch and snacks. Students will prepare a variety of those foods.
Independent Living - Students will learn how the keep the home clean and healthy by using correct cleaning and laundry procedures and making a home safe to live in.
This course is a continuation of students learning more techniques in woodworking. Students will be given safety tests and will be required to score 100% on all tests. Students will use the band saw, drill press, miter saw, table saw and the router table in the process of constructing their project.
This course is for students to sing and participate in class activities. There will be at least one required performance each semester. Students may enroll for 9 weeks, 18 weeks, or all year
This class is an alternative for students that do not want to participate in chorus. Students will listen to various styles of music and study the history of modern music.
This course will develop ensemble, technical and performance skills learned in Beginning Band 6. To enroll, a student must have taken Band 6 or have permission from the instructor. Member will participate in the Maple Leaf Parade, Veterans Day Parade, Christmas Parade, Winter and Spring Concerts.
This course is designed for students with little or no band experience or those who would choose to learn a new instrument.
Students continue working on basic keyboarding as well as advanced keyboarding skills. Students develop projects where they insert functions within a spreadsheet for Excel, insert video or music within their PowerPoints, and create graphs and charts utilizing Microsoft Word. Microsoft Publisher is used by students to create brochures covering Kansas History.
This course covers all desktop publishing software as well as Microsoft Movie Maker. We also utilize PowerPoint to create Jeopardy games covering anything from specific questions from Core Classes, Technology Class, and general facts. This class is filled with cooperative learning activities that meet the needs of the individual learners.
Eighth Grade
The Ottawa Middle School eighth grade is made up of two teams, Planet Ottawa and Scholars. Each team is comprised or approximately 100 students and four teachers. The four teachers are responsible for teaching the core classes of language arts, science, social studies, and math. Students are also required to take Physical Education/Health for 18 weeks. Students must also take keyboarding if they have not passed the keyboarding proficiency test. They then have elective classes they may choose from which include Art, Clothing 8, Foods 8, Super Sitters, Broadcasting, Power Technology, Woods 8, Advanced Woods, Web Page Building, Advanced Keyboarding Techniques, P.A.L.S., Beginning Guitar, Band 8, Chorale, and Chorus 8.
| Required Classes |
Electives (9 week classes) |
Electives (18 weeks) |
| Language Arts | Art A | P.A.L.S. |
| Mathematics | Art B | Beginning Guitar |
| Science | Clothing 8 | Chorus 8 |
| Social Studies | Foods 8 | |
| Super Sitters | Electives (year long) | |
| Broadcasting | Chorale | |
| Power Technology | Chorus 8 | |
| Woods 8 | ||
| Advanced Woods | ||
| Technology | ||
| Photo Shop | ||
| Chorus | ||
Course Description - Eighth Grade
Required Classes
This course is a review of basic grammar, library skills, and writing skills utilizing the six trait writing method. Additionally, there will be a study of literature with an emphasis on composition skills and the elements of fiction.
This course if a combination of Early American History, Geography, Political Science, and an introduction to multi-ethnic studies.
This is a Pre-Algebra class, which also reviews the basic skills taught in the seventh grade with an emphasis on decimals, percent, measurement and consumer math.
This class will emphasize chemistry and physical science. Students will learn about simple machines, energy, motion, and the properties of matter. Some history, measurement and use of tools in science will be taught through inquiry-based activities.
Students will be taught to apply physical education to life circumstances by learning howabout physical fitness needs, nutrition, wellness, and cardiovascular capacity. Students also learn the components of sportsmanship in sports and recreational activities as well as improving knowledge and skills in various sporting activities
Elective Classes
Emphasis will be placed on perspective techniques, landscape drawing, watercolors, and contour and gesture drawing.
This is an advanced art class for eighth grade students. Mediums to be used include pen and ink, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics, and clay. Students must have received a grade of A in the Art A to be considered for the Art B class.
Students will learn to operate the serger and the sewing machine with skill. They will make at least two projects in this 9 week class. Students will be expected to purchase all supplies for this class.
This general foods course focuses on the procedures and skills that enable one to work successfully in the kitchen: understanding a recipe, wise consumerism, nutrition, and the safe handling of food.
Students will learn the skills needed to be an in-demand babysitter. Topics covered include safety issues, emergency guidelines, practical how-to procedures, appropriate sitter behavior and much more. Students will learn about and practice preparing food that will appeal to children as well as crafts and activities that will entertain children of various ages. Infant simulators will be used to practice caring for babies.
This class studies the industry of television and radio. Writing scripts, speaking on camera as well as production processes are used in this course. Students who are strong in writing, speaking, and technical skills would enjoy this class.
This course is a continuation of Introduction to Industrial Technology. It will contain the upper level modules not covered in the introductory course.
This course will continue to build on prior Woods classes, giving students a more detailed and advanced project. Students will be given safety tests in which they must score 100%. Constructing the projects may require the use of the band saw, drill press, miter saw, table saw, router table or other hand and power tools.
Woods 8 is a prerequisite to this course. Projects will be designed to develop more skillful woodworking knowledge. Safety tests must be passed with 100% accuracy. Projects may require the use of hand and power tools.
Website Design - Students work with community business owners who need a website created and work with them to create a website for their business.
Students are taught the basic workspace and begin by editing basic images. Students create dynamic text and photos by applying filters and state changes to basic images. Students create a gallery for their final project. Adobe Flash and Fireworks are also used in this course. Flash is used to create movies that they must draw frame by frame and insert sound effects within the project.
Students will learn how to assist and tutor others during the first five to six weeks. They will then be assigned elementary and middle school students to work with. On Fridays the group will meet as a class and spend time on service projects either for the school or the community.
This class will focus on the basics of guitar playing. Students will learn to read and count music. They will also have an opportunity to create and play music in a variety of settings. Guitars are available to class members or they may bring their own.
Students will develop ensemble and performance skills, posture, tone, intonation, breathing, embrasure, fingering, rhythm, articulation, scales, and use of the above skills in expressive musical performance. An appropriate band instrument will be needed. This class is for the third of at least second year band students. Required events are: Maple Leaf Parade, Veteran's Day Parade, Christmas Parade, Winter Concert, Elementary Recruiting Tour, and the Spring Concert.
Fundamentals of proper singing will be taught with exploration in sight singing, rhythm exercises and more advanced musical knowledge. This group will sing classic choral pieces as well as novelty pieces. An audition is required to enroll in the class. There will be one required performance in each semester.
This course is for students who desire to sing and participate in class activities. Fundamental of proper singing will be taught. There will be at least one required performance each semester. This is a one year class or if you choose you may enroll one semester or one quarter (9 weeks).