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 Welcome to the Moodle site at Waltham High School.
This online learning center hosts course sites for high school students as well as professional development experiences for teachers. Here students will find courses reflecting 21st Century skills in an environment that they are most likely to encounter in higher education.
This site is currently being developed. A professional development course entitled Integrating Moodle into Your Teaching is available for teachers seeking to develop their own Moodle course sites to augment their in-class courses. Course sites for students are also available here.
The power of visual images has been used for centuries to communicate ideas and enhance the written word. Since the dawning of the computer age, artists have explored new techniques and discovered the creative potential of the digital canvas. From illustrated books, comic books and graphic novels, editorial illustration and children’s books, digital illustration is quickly becoming the medium of choice for commercial artists around the world.
Combining traditional and digital techniques, students will learn the process of illustration to create digital art using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Focus will be placed on visual communication, digital exploration, correct printing formats and bookmaking techniques. Working from the foundation created in 678 Graphic Design I, students will push the boundaries of visual communication using scanners, digital cameras, Adobes creative suite (including Illustrator) and traditional art techniques. Students will also begin to explore the career of a freelance graphic designer. By examining magazines, billboards, TV and the Internet, students will learn the critical thinking skills needed to understand the hidden truth behind many messages in our world today. We live in the most visual culture in the History of humanity! Learn to think for yourself among all the visual chatter! Objectives The Graphic Design I class will introduce the students to the world of Graphic Design, both its History, Techniques, Influences on Society and career opportunities. Focus will be placed on Design as Art, Design as Inquiry and further explorations in Design. Key materials used will be traditional media such as markers and colored pencils, and digital medium through Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. AP Language and Composition focuses students on understanding argument by analyzing rhetoric. English 12 Honors The emphasis in this course is on independent reading and frequent composition work. Literary selections will revolve around the major theme of The Human Condition and will include the following major texts: Hamlet, Oedipus the King, 1984, The Metamorphosis, and The Stranger. Writing will focus on daily writing-to-learn responses, weekly “think” papers, and on literary analyses citing specific references to the text. Students will learn vocabulary from their reading of words in context. This course provides high school students with the experiences paralleling a college introductory biology course. About one fourth of the class time is devoted to laboratory exercises which provide valuable skills in experimental design and collecting and analyzing data. The curriculum provides the students with an opportunity to develop a conceptual framework for modern biology emphasizing applications of biological knowledge and critical thinking to environmental and social concerns.
This is a first year course in college preparatory biology for the honors student who has shown deep interest in science, who has demonstrated outstanding ability in previous science courses and who intends to study advanced placement science courses. Topics to be covered include biochemistry, cellular biology, human biology, genetics, and evolution. This is a first year course in college preparatory biology for the honors student who has shown deep interest in science, who has demonstrated outstanding ability in previous science courses and who intends to study advanced placement science courses. Topics to be covered include biochemistry, cellular biology, human biology, genetics, and evolution. United States History II covers American history during the twentieth century. Our survey course will begin with a study of twenteith century Bill of Rights cases and then start historically with the rise of imperialism and the Spanish American War, the course will culminate with the Clinton and Bush administrations. AP macroeconomics is a college-level course designed to prepare each student for the AP macroeconomics test. Students will learn about aggregate economics models, the determinants of economic success nationally and internationally and how to critically analyze a nation's economy. AP microeconomics is a college-level course designed to prepare each student for the AP microeconomics test. Among other things, students will learn about supply and demand, taxes, the role of government in an economy, externalities, costs, market structures and labor markets. Freshman World History covers the history of the world from the age of Absolutism in Europe to the modern age. This course will guide participants through the process of creating a simple PowerPoint presentation to be used in the classroom. Sculpture has existed for thousands of years. What prompted people to make objects of art? What did some of the first sculpture look like? What are some of the greatest ones ever made? What about the ones in your own community?
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