Available TTUISD CoursesIntroduces algebraic expressions and equations, mathematical properties, linear functions, and graphs of functions. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Continues topics introduced in ALG 1A, including algebraic expressions and equations, mathematical properties, linear functions, and graphs of functions. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Teaches students to analyze equations and inequalities, graph linear relations and functions, solve systems of linear equations and inequalities, use matrices, and explore polynomials and radical expressions. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Teaches students to explore quadratic functions and inequalities, to analyze conic sections, explore polynomial functions and rational expressions, and learn exponential and logarithmic functions. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. There are no quizzes in this course. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Explores the world of 2D art media and includes discussions on art history, application, use, and enjoyment Builds on knowledge and skills acquired in ART 1A. Covers 3D art, including design communications, printmaking, sculpture, macrame, and forms. Explores art's history, present application, and its "future in the new millennium." Encourages students to consider art as a valuable discipline in a variety of real-world situations and careers. Requires students to venture into the world and examine art "at work." Access to the Internet, a public library, a museum, and an individual in an art-related industry are also required. Write a concise and interesting paragraph here that explains what this course is about Write a concise and interesting paragraph here that explains what this course is about Course Description This course helps develop the knowledge and skills in the economical, financial, technological, international, social, and ethical aspects of banking to become competent consumers, employees, and entrepreneurs.Students will incorporate a broad base of knowledge that includes the operations, sales, and management of banking institutions to gain a complete understanding of how banks function within society. Teaches students to use the most commonly encountered Microsoft Office 2003 Professional applications: Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), and Outlook (communications). Focuses on basic document management skills that enable students to create and integrate word processing documents and spreadsheets in a personal or business setting and communicate through e-mails and planning. Teaches students to use Microsoft Office 2003 Professional applications: Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), Access (database), and PowerPoint (presentation). Focuses on learning terms and facts of biology. Teaches students to begin to appreciate the beauty of the processes and the orderliness of the living condition. Emphasizes basic understanding of ecology, cell studies, genetics and heredity, evolution, and microbiology. Assists students in achieving their education goals and helps them experience the living world around them. This course is a continuation of Biology 1A. This hands-on applications course provides on an introduction to Information Systems and then focuses on using the OpenOffice program for word processing and spreadsheets. You will learn basic document management skills which will enable you to create and integrate word processing documents and spreadsheets in a personal or business setting. Last, but not least, you will also learn how a computer works and how to use a computer to resolve common problem-solving tasks. This course introduces concepts of computing and problem-solving using the application software called OpenOffice. The focus of BusIM1B is concentrated on using the last two main components of the OpenOffice program for presentations (Impress) and database management software (Base). Upon completion of this course, you will have a solid understanding of databases, presentation software, as well as how to integrate the four main components of OpenOffice (Writer, Calc, Base, and Impress). Covers the impact of parenting on the individual and focuses on concepts related to prenatal and postnatal care. Teaches the development of children, including opportunities for making parental decisions, child-care guidance techniques, career opportunities related to children, and special parenting techniques. Recommended for students in grades 10, 11, or 12. Explores the world of chemistry--the study of the composition of substances and the changes they undergo. Students find ways chemists touch their lives in areas such as medicine, transportation, clothing, cosmetics, art, and industry. Lessons include the science of matter, atomic structure, the periodic table, compound formation, types of compounds, chemical reactions and equations, periodic properties of elements, chemical bonding, and the behavior of gases. CHEM 1B is a continuation of CHEM 1A. Covers the oral communication process and helps students improve their skill in communicating. Focuses on one-on-one communication, interactive listening, public speaking, and group communication. Course Description: In this course, you will see how digital and interactive media is revolutionizing the World Wide Web and learn the latest interactive technologies for the ever-changing digital world. It’s going to be full on, but you’ll love it every step of the way. This course is very up-to-date – reflecting the rapid changes that occur in new media. This in turn provides you with a contemporary skill-set to meet the demands of the industry. You’ll gain key knowledge and skills around fundamental digital media elements such as digital photo, video, sound and music, animation, and web design. By the end of the course you’ll have an online portfolio that demonstrates your capability to design and build highly innovative digital interfaces.This will give you the foundations needed to start your career and specialize in your desired area. Course Description: In this course, you will see how digital and interactive media is revolutionizing the World Wide Web and learn the latest interactive technologies for the ever-changing digital world. It’s going to be full on, but you’ll love it every step of the way. This course is very up-to-date – reflecting the rapid changes that occur in new media. This in turn provides you with a contemporary skill-set to meet the demands of the industry. You’ll gain key knowledge and skills around fundamental digital media elements such as digital photo, video, sound and music, animation, and web design. By the end of the course you’ll have an online portfolio that demonstrates your capability to design and build highly innovative digital interfaces. This will give you the foundations needed to start your career and specialize in your desired area. Course Description: This course focuses on consumer practices and responsibilities, the money management process, decision-making skills, impact of technology, and preparation for human services careers. 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Teaches the American free enterprise system, which is characterized by private ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods and services. Covers the role of free markets in the determination of prices and the allocation of the nation's resources. Environmental Systems is more than just another science course because it deals with problems that confront us every day. The purpose of this course is to give you a basic understanding of the complex relationships that exist between the biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) factors on our planet. ENVS 1B is the second semester of studying how nature works and how things in nature are interconnected. In this course, you will gain an understanding of Earth's energy sources and energy alternatives, and the management of water, air, and land resources. This course is designed to help you become aware of the environment and give you a basis to make ecologically sound decisions. This course incorporates principles from biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. By taking this course, students will increase their knowledge of basic physical fitness and mental health. This course will challenge students to develop physical, mental, social, and emotional fitness as they learn how to incorporate the five health-related components of fitness into their exercise program safely and effectively. Through study of exercise, diet, nutrition, stress, and consumer health, students will be able to make healthy choices to help maintain fitness and wellness throughout their lives This beginning course teaches students to recognize and use basic vocabulary words, numbers, and the alphabet; tell time, ask basic questions, and say the days of the week, months of the year, seasons, and the date; and identify French-speaking regions and countries. In this course you will learn vocabulary pertaining to clothing, colors, air and train travel, sports, summer and winter activities and weather, and one’s daily routine and grooming.It will also cover regular -ir and -re verbs and several irregular verbs.Grammatical structures covered are comparisons; demonstrative adjectives; the passé composé of regular and irregular verbs using both être and avoir as helping verbs; the question words qui, qu’est-ce que, and quoi; reflexive verbs (present and past tenses); quel and tout; and negative constructions. This intermediate course teaches more advanced vocabulary, present-tense forms of regular and irregular verbs, the negation construction (ne...pas), possessive adjectives, and agreement and placement of adjectives, as well as how to start a conversation and report what others say. This is a continuation of French 2A. Students will learn to talk about clothing sizes, ask for information, describe what they wear, compare people and things, express opinions, talk about their daily routines, talk about different kinds of movies in France, describe events in the past, and make commands with idiomatic verbs. Teaches the basics of geometry, including figures, measures, proofs, parallels, properties of congruencies, and polygons. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Teaches the basics of geometry, including figures, measures, proofs, parallels, properties of congruencies, and polygons. Note: This course is different from any course you have enrolled in before. You will complete all of your assignments using a digital notepad system. We have tested and provided instructions for the ACECAD DigiMemo 692 for both PC and Mac users. If you choose to use a different system, please understand that you must be able to export the file(s) as a PDF for submission to your instructor. When you complete your assignment, you will transfer your assignment from the digital notepad system to your computer and then convert the assignment to a PDF file using the software that came with your system. To submit your assignment you will upload the PDF file using the appropriate upload page in Moodle. Includes a brief study of the American political heritage; modern political and economic systems; events leading to the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; and topics such as political parties, interest groups, and voting behavior. Examines legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal, state, and local governments, as well as civil rights. Begins with a brief review of America's birth and the creation of the U.S. Constitution. Covers U.S. history from Reconstruction to the end of World War I. Includes the return of the South to the Union, the development of big business and its relationship with government, and the expansion of the Western frontier. Addresses the expansion of American cities and their role as ethnic melting pots, the activities of political parties, and the organization of labor and farm reform groups. Covers in detail American expansion into Asia and Latin America, as well as the causes and results of World War I. This continuation of HIST 1A covers the history of the United States from the conclusion of World War I to the present. Main subjects include the cultural and economic changes of the 1920s, the onset of the Great Depression, and the reform program of Roosevelt's New Deal. Other topics include the causes and consequences of World War II, U.S. global policies, the Cold War, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, the roots of social change (particularly the drive for African-American civil rights and the movement for women's rights), the political crisis of Watergate, the conclusion of the Cold War, and the effort to structure new post-Cold War political and commercial relations Encourages students to make healthy choices by teaching them to analyze situations, identify problems, and evaluate life experiences. Through decision-making and problem-solving, this course covers wellness, personality, relationships, nutrition, fitness, human development, substance abuse, diseases, environmental health, and first aid. Note: This course covers sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including AIDS. Integrated Physics and Chemistry 1A is the first half of a basic introduction to a variety of topics: scientific problem-solving; properties, phases, classifications, changes, and building blocks of matter; heat as a form of energy; the development of some scientific theories and contributions of scientists; elements, ions, compounds, solutions, and chemical reactions; and connections between physics, chemistry, other disciplines, careers, and technology. Integrated Physics and Chemistry 1B is the second half of a basic introduction to a variety of topics in physics and chemistry. This half of the course focuses more closely on physics and includes discussions on motion, speed, momentum and accelerations; forces, including Newton's laws of force and fluid forces; work, power, and simple machines, including evaluation of mechanical advantage and mechanical efficiency; heat and heating systems; electricity and magnetism; and waves, including sound and light waves. Begins with the study of music elements, then proceeds sequentially through musical heritage by style period, from the Middle Ages through the first part of the Romantic period. MHIS 1A is designed to develop listening skills and expand knowledge of music heritage and history. Uses award-winning materials written and developed by Roger Kamien. A continuation of MHIS 1A, this course begins with the late Romantic period and continues through the music of the 20th century. Builds on listening skills and music heritage knowledge acquired in 1A. Uses award-winning materials written and developed by Roger Kamien. Course Description: Recent surveys reveal that Americans consider financial literacy as important as any subjects traditionally taught in schools. Why then is it that most students graduate without basic money management knowledge and are left to learn financial skills through trial and error? This course will help you learn the essentials of personal finance so that your money is working for you and not the other way around. Course Description: Recent surveys reveal that Americans consider financial literacy as important as any subjects traditionally taught in schools. Why then is it that most students graduate without basic money management knowledge and are left to learn financial skills through trial and error? This course will help you learn the essentials of personal finance so that your money is working for you and not the other way around. Students use mathematical models from algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics to solve real-life applied problems involving money, data, chance, patterns, and science. Students use mathematical models from algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics to solve real-life applied problems involving money, data, chance, patterns, and science. Assists students in acquiring movement, knowledge, and skills that provide the foundation for enjoyment, continued social development through physical activity, and access to a physically active lifestyle. Students participate in physically active sports that enhance their understanding of the relationship between physical activity and health throughout their lives. Encourages students to participate in individual sports that can be pursued for a lifetime. The continued development of health-related fitness and the selection of enjoyable individual sport activities is a major objective of this course. Requires participation in bowling and tennis. Introduces students to the team sports of soccer and volleyball. Teaches the history of the games, equipment needs, basic facilities, terminology, and rules and regulations. Learning activities help students master the necessary concepts of each sport and practice the skills they read about. Through the physical fitness pretest and posttest, students begin lifelong fitness by evaluating their level of fitness and setting goals. Emphasizes maintaining a healthy lifestyle, staying active in ways that keep them healthy, and creating and evaluating a fitness program that will keep them active. Students must participate in a league for the volleyball section. Physics 1A is the first semester of an introductory high school physics course. Much of what we see and hear is taken for granted and now you can learn why you see what you see, why you hear what you hear, and why you feel what you feel. Enjoy this time of discovery! The successful student will learn to understand, explain, and calculate the effects of nature. Concepts covered are motion, properties of matter, and thermodynamics. The student will apply concepts by answering questions, calculating values, and performing experiments to deepen their understanding of physics. Physics 1B (v.3.0) is a course about how the world works. Much of what we see and hear is taken for granted and now you can learn why you see what you see, why you hear what you hear, and why you feel what you feel. Enjoy this time of discovery! In Physics 1B, the successful student will learn to understand, explain, and calculate the effects of nature. Concepts covered are waves, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear physics. The student will apply concepts by answering questions, calculating values, and performing experiments to deepen their understanding of physics. Technology is used every day in our work. We use technology to communicate, to record information, and to buy and sell goods and services. In this course we will explore jobs, computers, and how we can use them to become successful in the work we choose to do. A suite of programs for office tasks will be required. OpenOffice.org is preferred and freely available at www.openoffice.org. Microsoft Office can also be used. Technology is used every day in our work. We use technology to communicate, to record information, and to buy and sell goods and services. In this course we will explore jobs, computers, and how we can use them to become successful in the work we choose to do. Principles of Technology 1A (PRINIT 1A) is required for this course. A suite of programs for office tasks will be required. OpenOffice.org is preferred and freely available at www.openoffice.org. Microsoft Office can also be used. After completing this course, students understand the cycle of life; intellectual, physiological, and motivational characteristics; and major theories of human behavior, abnormal behavior, and treatment. Teaches students about social behavior, learning, thinking, and various states of consciousness. Helpful to students in understanding themselves and others. Introduces students to the study of sociology. Focuses on societal issues such as cultures, deviant behavior, family, marriage, aging, criminal behavior, poverty, and discrimination. Familiarizes students with major approaches to the study of behavior and theories of behavior, basic terminology, and knowledge of research findings. Spanish 1A is an introductory course for students who have no prior instruction or experience with the Spanish language. This course will begin with basic concepts of grammar, vocabulary, and cultural awareness. This will provide you with the language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course topics include greetings and introductions; describing yourself and others; and exchanging information about nationalities, countries of origin, personality traits, and characteristics. You will converse about everyday school activities, extracurricular activities, time, and weather. As you progress through the lessons, you will develop a wide range of vocabulary and will be able to incorporate the necessary grammatical structures to support communication. By the end of the course, you will be able to converse, read, and write about these topics in simple, grammatically correct sentences in Spanish. This continuation of SPAN 1A teaches students to describe weather conditions, talk about what people are doing, ask and answer negative questions, describe actions, name parts of the body, sequence a narration, and learn nonverbal communication using their hands. Spanish 2A is the first semester of Spanish Level II, an intermediate course designed for students who have completed Spanish Level I. We begin by reviewing the basic concepts of grammar and some of the vocabulary taught in Level I, and extend these concepts to a more complex level of communication. Continued development of the language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, along with a deepening knowledge of the culture and literature of Spanish-speaking peoples, are the goals of this course. You will progress through thematic units designed to help you develop a broadening range of vocabulary and grammatical structures to support communication at the intermediate level. When you have successfully completed Spanish 2A, you will be able to converse, read, and write in basic, grammatically correct Spanish about the themes you encounter. Welcome to Spanish 2B! Spanish 2B is the second semester of Spanish Level II, an intermediate course designed for students who have completed Spanish 2A. In this course, instruction continues with further development of the basic concepts of grammar and further extension of the vocabulary in thematic units which relate to common aspects of daily life. As in Spanish 2A, the goals of this course are continued development of the language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, along with deepening knowledge of the culture and literature of Spanish-speaking peoples. Web Mastering is a hand-on applications course. In WEB 1A we will explore networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. We'll learn about issues such as copyright law, basic computer and other general technology skills, communications skills, Web server information, style sheets, and the fundamentals of building and designing Web pages with HTML that meet the current standards. Since the Internet is an important part of this course, you will be expected to conduct research and view other designers' Web pages using the Internet. you must have a background in basic computer skills and the Internet to successfully complete the lesson assignments. You should already know how to:
Web Mastering is a hands-on applications course. WEB 1B is the follow-up course to WEB 1A. In this second half of Web Mastering, you will continue creating Web pages that combine the basic Web design skills you learned in WEB 1A with the new skills you'll learn in WEB 1B. Some of the skills you'll pick up along the way include how to create forms for gathering data from Web surfers and how to use cascading style sheets to maintain a uniform look and feel for all your Web pages. We'll also touch on the basics of JavaScript, video, sound, and much more. Since the Internet is an important part of this course, you will be expected to conduct research and view other designers' Web pages using the Internet. You must have a background in basic computer skills and the Internet to successfully complete the lesson assignments. You should already know how to:
In the Touch System Data Entry course, students will learn to operate a standard PC keyboard - the most common input device for personal computers. Each of the major portions of the keyboard will be presented in this course: alphabetic keys, numeric and symbol keys, and the numeric keypad. The student will apply and practice touch typing by producing letters, envelopes, labels, memos, e-mail, tables, reports and more. The course consists of ten lessons and one final exam. Covers world history from the prehistoric period to the 17th century. Focuses on the development of Western and Eastern civilizations, as well as the early civilizations in the Americas. Covers the development of world civilization from early modern times to the present. |
