Online Middle School Courses

Grade 6 - Transition to Middle School Grade 6 courses help students transition from elementary to middle school by strengthening core mathematics, reading, writing, social studies, and science skills.​

Grade 6 Mathematics:Students strengthen essential math skills, including whole numbers, integers, decimals, equations, absolute value, order of operations, inequalities, and real-world problem-solving.​

Grade 6 Language Arts/Reading:Students develop reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing skills. They read cross-disciplinary texts and write eight book reviews at their reading level.

Grade 6 ELS (English Language Skills):Focus is on grammar, vocabulary expansion, figurative language, reference tools, sentence structure, editing, and correct writing mechanics.

Grade 6 Social Studies:Students explore world geography with hands-on map skills, climate zones, Earth’s surface patterns, biomes, and habitats of plants and animals in different regions.

Grade 6 Science:Covers physical, life, and earth science concepts. Students create an online portfolio using research and inquiry-based activities.​

Grade 6 Summary:A foundation year focusing on core academic growth, literacy development, and essential study skills.

Grade 7 - Skill Deepening & Pre-Algebra ReadinessGrade 7 courses deepen mathematical, analytical, grammar and comprehension, science, and civics skills to prepare students for advanced middle school concepts.

Grade 7 Mathematics: Skills to focus on are number theory, decimals, fractions, ratios and proportions, algebraic expressions, equations, percent, graphing, geometry, probability, algebraic patterns, and functions.​

Grade 7 Reading: Students analyze narrative and expository texts, and develop reading skills by focusing on main ideas, context clues, inferences, and text structure. They complete eight grade-level book reviews.​

ELS (English Language Skills): Covers grammar usage, spelling, parts of speech, affixes, sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, revision, and editing.​

Grade 7 Social Studies (Civics): Students learn the foundation and function of the U.S. government, citizenship, and real-world civics application.

Grade 7 Science: Covers Earth/Space Science and Physical Science: planets, stars, galaxies, comets, earthquakes, volcanoes, weather, climate, tides, pollution, motion, energy, magnetism, light, electricity, and sound waves.

Grade 7 Summary: The year builds academic independence and prepares students for algebra, complex reading, and structured writing.

Grade 8 - High School Preparation & Advanced ConceptsGrade 8 builds stronger critical thinking skills and introduces students to advanced math, writing, science, and American history.

Grade 8 Mathematics: Students work with real numbers, equations, inequalities, functions, graphs, equations, integral exponents, polynomials, rational algebraic expressions, and quadratic equations.​

Grade 8 ELS (English Language Skills): Students practice advanced writing skills - essays, transitions, idioms, complex sentences, homonyms, homographs, and paragraph development.​

Grade 8 Reading: Improvement of reading fluency by focusing on literature, biography, poetry, autobiography, idioms, author’s purpose, metaphors, and character study, plus eight grade-level book reviews.​

Grade 8 Social Studies: Students explore American history: early exploration, the American Revolution, the Jacksonian era, mid-19th-century developments, and the Gilded Age.​

Grade 8 Science: (Earth & Life Sciences): Earth Science: Earth’s structure, materials, natural processes, water cycle, fossils, weather, and renewable/non-renewable resources.​
Life Sciences: Cell biology, taxonomy, genetics, evolution, human body systems, ecosystems, plants, animals, and microbiology.

Grade 8 Summary Students become ready for high school through advanced math, comprehensive reading/writing, deep scientific exploration, and insight into U.S. history.