Grade 7 Electives

English

Voice Acting

This class is designed for students who are interested in improving their speaking and acting skills. In this class, students will focus on improving their pronunciation by working on word stress, rhythm, and intonation. They will also learn how to mimic different voices and accents.

Students will practice writing a transcript for a cartoon clip. They will also practice speaking using a transcript, which will help them improve their delivery and timing.

The final project for the class will involve working in groups to give sound to a muted cartoon, where students will be required to record voices and sound effects. This project will allow students to showcase their skills in a fun and engaging way, while also providing them with valuable experience working in a collaborative environment.

Math

Social Enterprise

In this class, students will explore the intersection of math and social entrepreneurship. The course will focus on developing a foundation in key mathematical concepts and skills, while also introducing students to the basics of social entrepreneurship and its impact on society.

Through a variety of hands-on activities and projects, students will learn how math can be used to create and run successful social enterprises.

Throughout the course, students will work in teams to create their own social enterprise ideas, which they will develop and refine over the course of the semester. They will learn how to apply math concepts and skills to evaluate the feasibility and potential success of their ventures, and will present their ideas to the class at the end of the semester.

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Science

Robotics

This hands-on course offers students the opportunity to explore the exciting world of robotics. Through a variety of investigations and activities, students will learn to build and program robots using Arduino schematics and code sketches. Students will participate in engaging activities such as Traffic Light, Simon Says Game and Self-Driving Car.

Throughout the course, students will learn the principles of robotics, including mechanical design, electronics, and programming. They will explore the different types of sensors and actuators used in robotics and learn how to incorporate them into their designs. Students will also learn the basics of programming, including the syntax of the Arduino programming language, how to write code sketches, and how to upload them to their robots.

School Year 2023/24

Robotics - Autonomous car - 2023/24

Once students had mastered LED lights and buzzers, they moved on to make their own autonomous car, using the circuits they had learned in class. The girls got to decorate their cars in any way that they liked and they presented the theme of their car, to their classmates.

In this lesson, students presented the autonomous cars that they had been working on in their groups. Throughout this term we have been learning about how to build different circuits and the different parts that make up a circuit. Autonomous cars use a sensor to detect if anything is in front of the car, motors, batteries wires and the Arduino chip to make the car move.

Students designed the outside of the car and then presented their moving car along with their presentation where they covered what they used and any problems they had.

Robotics - Buzzer - 2023/24

Students spent the first couple of weeks of the Robotics elective mastering the use of Arduino. Arduino boards are the microcontroller development platform that is at the heart of projects. When making something students will be building the circuits and interfaces for interaction, and telling the microcontroller how to interface with other components.

Having completed the introduction to robotics, and created a basic flashing light circuit, students moved on to a buzzer project. In small groups, they connected the master board and breadboard with wires in order to sound a buzzer.