Students will dive into nutrition, exercise, food categories, cooking, and textile care. The course also expands to hospitality, home repair, child care, relationship building, and character development, all grounded in biblical principles. The course includes quizzes, tests, and projects to ensure comprehensive understanding and skill mastery.

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In family and consumer science, students are responsible for completing hands-on projects. Cooking assignments should be completed as directed and under adult supervision. All assignments and instructions are appropriate for both genders.

Tracing the history of art, high school students enrolled in the course also explore the following time periods and places: prehistoric art, art in ancient civilizations, and world art before 1400.

Give students a guide for healthy living and wellness with this Bible-based elective, which presents health from a Christian perspective. Viewing mankind as the crown of God’s creation, this course from our online academy reviews human anatomy and physiology including body systems. This course for grades 9-12 outlines the development of the human body from conception to adulthood.

Topics include physical health and nutrition, exercise programs, mental and social health, and personal hygiene. Additional lessons explain home safety and basic first aid skills. This course concludes with an emphasis on responsible Christian living and outlines avoiding diseases and substance abuse, caring for the ill, and relationships between health and the environment. This course from our online academy contains quizzes and tests to evaluate progress and student mastery. Projects are included.

Further students’ French! Throughout French II, students continue to accompany fictional characters who are studying French in an academic year abroad in France. This course from our online academy continues to build on lessons taught in French I and provides further exposure to French culture, grammar, and vocabulary. Lessons review verbs, demonstrative adjectives, direct object pronouns, and basic sentence structure.

French vocabulary words are presented in situational daily usage such shopping, work, movies, city and country life, health issues, winter vacations, fashion, art, beach, and stages of life. Cultural differences and similarities are also examined. This course from our online academy contains quizzes and tests to evaluate progress and student mastery.

In physical fitness, students learn about the components and importance of an active lifestyle. Students in grades 9-12 learn about the benefits of physical activity and good nutrition, mental and emotional benefits of exercise, correct motion and breathing, and the value of warming up and cooling down. Flexibility, levels of cardiovascular fitness, and strength training and conditioning are also discussed in this course from our online academy.

Lessons in this course from our online academy help explain calorie burning, resistance training, isolating exercises to focus on certain body locations, and ways to stay motivated. Developing a correct mindset and realistic goals also are covered. Some course work must be done outside the online classroom, and students have the opportunity to try different exercises and keep a log of activities. The second semester is one unit and ends with a focus on learning the basics of several different sports to encourage an interest in involvement for future personal fitness goals.

This course requires a fitness log of physical activity.

Say bonjour to French! Throughout French I, students accompany fictional characters, two Americans, studying French in an academic year abroad in France. The characters are staying with host families and will be learning the language, culture, and customs of people in France, as well as in other French-speaking countries. While traveling, students in grades 9-12 learn the basics of French including verb conjugation, moods, direct and indirect objects, demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, adjective placement, and other grammatical items.

Vocabulary words in this course from our online academy are presented in situational daily usage such as greetings, alphabet, numbers, geography, schooling, family and friends, leisure time, sports, celebrations, traditions, food, daily life, the media, and summer vacations. Cultural differences and similarities are also examined. This course from our online academy contains quizzes and tests to evaluate progress and student mastery.

In Spanish II, high school students continue to travel with fictional characters to more Spanish-speaking countries, learning language and culture on the way. Language learning includes review of Spanish I material as well as the imperative and conditional forms of verbs, the passive se, more on adjective placement, uses of por and para, superlatives, and possessive adjectives.

This course from our online academy for grades 9-12 builds students’ knowledge of intermediate Spanish with fun conversation and dialogue. Lessons help students learn to read, write, and understand more complex Spanish words and sentences. Vocabulary words are presented in situational daily usage pertaining to life areas and events. Cultural differences and similarities are also examined. This course from our online academy contains quizzes and tests to evaluate progress and student mastery. Projects are included.

In Spanish I, students in grades 9-12 accompany fictional characters and go on a trip to nine Spanish-speaking countries and Puerto Rico. While traveling through this course from our online academy, students learn the basics of Spanish verb conjugation in the indicative and subjunctive moods, direct and indirect objects, demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, adjective placement, and other grammatical items.

Vocabulary words in this course from our online academy are presented in situational daily usage such as describing emotions, eating, travel, health, safety, education, hobbies, family, and other life areas and events. Cultural differences and similarities are also examined. This course contains quizzes and tests to evaluate progress and student mastery. Projects are included.

Vietnam Era is a high school elective that helps students gain an in-depth look at the country of Vietnam and the factors that led to the Vietnam War and the United States’ involvement in the war. Topics in this course from our online academy include the history of Vietnam through colonization and the World Wars, the rise of nationalism, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam soldiers and Vietcong tunnels, the American effort, and the antiwar movement.

Lessons examine President Johnson and President Nixon’s involvement in war policy, the invasion of Cambodia, secret diplomacy tactics, and the end of the war. The effects of the Vietnam War, Nixon and Watergate, prisoners of war, war’s aftermath on veterans, and U.S.-Vietnam relations today are also studied. Students explore how events of the war affected United States’ politics, foreign policy, and society. Each unit of the course from our online academy contains quizzes and a test to evaluate progress and student mastery. Projects are included.

Discover a true national treasure! This online academy elective for grades 9-12 reviews America’s origins and the steps that led to the formation of the U.S. Constitution. Students learn how important people and historical events influenced the writing of the United States’ most important document. Students gain understanding of constitutional principles and the amendments and how they apply to everyday life.

Ideal for high school students who wish to better understand the supreme law of the United States, this online academy elective examines the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, the meetings of the Constitutional Convention, the struggles of ratification, the articles and the outlining of the U.S. branches of government, and the ever-changing nature and future of the U.S. Constitution. Each unit of the course contains quizzes and a test to evaluate progress and student mastery. Projects are included.