Contact Us!
In order for a student to be promoted to high school from the middle grades, they must successfully complete the following courses:
*May include high school courses for high school credit.
The statutory requirements for middle grades promotion are found in section 1003.4156, Florida Statutes.
Students enrolled in this course will take the Gr 8 State FSSA (Science FCAT)
This course, like the M/J Comp Sci 2 Adv course, contains high school standards. However, in addition to the 7th grade standards, also includes approximately half of the 8th grade, M/J Comp Sci 3 Adv course standards. Due to the extreme pace of this course, placement should be based on teacher input, student interest, and demonstration by the student of independent motivation, organizational skills, and recognition of the study requirements of this course. In addition, parents should be made clearly aware of the pacing and curricular expectations of this accelerated course.
Students placed in this course should have successfully completed the M/J Comp Sci 1 Accelerated Honors course. If a student is placed in this course from M/J Comp Sci 1 or M/J Comp Sci 1 Adv, they will have missed apporximately 1/2 of the 8th grade standards normally covered in the M/J Comp Sci 1 Accelerated Honors course.
Successful completion of the M/J Comp Sci 1 Accelerated Honors course
Students placed in this course should have successfully completed the M/J Comp Sci 1 Accelerated Honors course. If a student is placed in this course from M/J Comp Sci 1 or M/J Comp Sci 1 Adv, they will have missed apporximately 1/2 of the 8th grade standards normally covered in the M/J Comp Sci 1 Accelerated Honors course.
Students & parents should be made clearly aware of the pacing and curricular expectations of this accelerated course.
Accelerated science courses include additional Next Generation Sunshine State High School Science Standards (NGSSS).
Accelerated science courses will include the requirement for students to complete a scientific research project.
Access the Instructional Materials page to see approved instructional resources for this course.
The purpose of this accelerated course is to provide opportunity for the student to study all 7th grade Advanced Science topics and half of the 8th grade Advanced Standards. The course moves at an accelerated rate. This course, like the M/J Comp Sci 1 Adv course, contains high school standards.
Accelerated science courses include additional Next Generation Sunshine State High School Science Standards (NGSSS).
Accelerated science courses will include the requirement for students to complete a scientific research project.
Laboratory investigations that include the use of scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, laboratory apparatus and technologies, experimental procedures, and safety procedures are an integral part of this course. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recommends that at the middle school level, all students should have multiple opportunities every week to explore science laboratory investigations (labs). School laboratory investigations are defined by the National Research Council (NRC) as an experience in the laboratory, classroom, or the field that provides students with opportunities to interact directly with natural phenomena or with data collected by others using tools, materials, data collection techniques, and models (NRC, 2006, p. 3). Laboratory investigations in the middle school classroom should help all students develop a growing understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills to calibrate and troubleshoot equipment used to make observations. Learners should understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data (NRC 2006, p. 77; NSTA, 2007).
