TABLE OF CONTENTS

BIBLE
Bible Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Bible Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Bible Grade 5 - 1 Credit

SOCIAL SCIENCES
History and Geography Grade 3 - 1 Credit
History and Geography Grade 4 - 1 Credit
History and Geography Grade 5 - 1 Credit

LANGUAGE ARTS
Language Arts Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Language Arts Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Language Arts Grade 5 - 1 Credit

MATHEMATICS
Mathematics Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Mathematics Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Mathematics Grade 5 - 1 Credit

SCIENCE
Science Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Science Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Science Grade 5 - 1 Credit

FITNESS
Health Quest - .5 Credits

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Spanish Elementary - .5 Credits
French Elementary - .5 Credits

BIBLE

Bible Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Bible 300 begins a developmental and in-depth academic study of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on Christian living, the lives of Jesus and Joseph, Bible study methods, Bible archaeology, friendship, and Christian service. These areas target five content strands: biblical literature, biblical background, Christian growth, Christian evidences, and friendship (a special topic). Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Identify how a Christian lives for God.
• Provide an overview of the life of Jesus.
• Provide an overview of the life of Joseph.
• Explain how a Christian can use the Bible.
• Discuss how God takes care of His children.
• Defend the Bible as the Word of God.
• Understand the nature and role of archaeology as they relate to the Bible.
• Explain the need and role of biblical friendships.
• Discuss how Christians help other people.

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Bible Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Bible 400 provides a developmental and in-depth academic study of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on the lives of Peter and Paul (also known as Saul), the existence and knowledge of God, Bible study methods, Psalm 23, Old Testament geography, and Christian witnessing. These areas target five content strands: theology, the attributes of God, biblical literature, biblical background, and Christian evidences. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Understand the nature and benefits of the knowledge of God.
• Describe the lives and ministries of the apostles Peter and Paul.
• Learn and memorize the Bible more effectively.
• Explain the design and message of Psalm 23.
• Provide evidences for the existence of God.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Old Testament geography.
• Witness for Christ with more knowledge and effectiveness.

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Bible Grade 5 - 1 Credit
Bible 500 provides a developmental and in-depth academic study of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on biographies of faithful people, angels, the presence of God, Bible study methods, the Christian's relationships, and Paul's missionary journeys. These areas target five content strands: theology, the attributes of God, biblical literature, biblical background, and Christian evidences. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Follow the examples of godly Christians.
• Understand the nature and ministry of angels.
• Appreciate the presence of God everywhere and in their lives.
• Distinguish between the different types of literature in the Bible.
• Discuss biblical proofs for what Christians believe.
• Identify key people, places, and events in Paul's missionary journeys.
• Understand the different ways that God is a judge.
• Explain the role of law and authority in God's world.

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

History & Geography Grade 3 - 1 Credit
History and Geography 300 continues the process of developing in students an understanding of and appreciation for God's activity as seen in the record of man and his relationships. It focuses on different types of communities and their local industries, such as farming and fishing, placing special emphasis on a variety of manufacturers in Michigan. Additionally, the course presents a survey of several 19th and 20th century inventors and inventions. These areas of focus target three major content strands: Geography, History, and Economics. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Describe various types of farms and some of the tasks required in farming.
• Locate and describe different fishing communities in the United States and the types of fish found in each one.
• Describe how the process of mining has changed over the years and what types of minerals and ore are mined.
• Describe how the process of logging has changed over the years and the challenges faced by the logging community today.
• Identify significant manufacturing industries and specific companies with a presence in Michigan.
• Identify significant inventors, such as Samuel F. B. Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, noting their accomplishments.
• Identify significant events and people in the history of space exploration.

Additionally, students will gain practice in report-writing and story-writing, covering topics like tall tales, manufacturers in Michigan, trips to space, and more.

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History & Geography Grade 4 - 1 Credit
History and Geography 400 continues the process of developing in students an understanding of and appreciation for God's activity as seen in the record of man and his relationships. The course focuses on World Geography, describing the surface of the Earth and its natural features (biomes). It also teaches about cultural distinctives, placing special emphasis on North American geography and culture. Then, expanding on instruction, it presents a survey of Earth and space explorations. These areas of focus target three major content strands: Geography, History, and Social Studies Skills. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

• identify significant explorers, such as Prince Henry, Christopher Columbus, and Ferdinand Magellan, noting their accomplishments
• locate and describe different regions of the world, such as climactic and topographical regions
• understand the world in spatial terms (according to hemispheres and maps)
• locate and describe U.S. regions made up of various groups of states, such as New England and the plains states
• identify cultural and geographic differences between various biomes and countries that are covered in the course

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History & Geography Grade 5 - 1 Credit
History and Geography 500 continues the process of developing in students an understanding of and appreciation for God's activity as seen in the record of man and his relationships. It focuses on two major areas, American History and Geography. The course covers American History from early exploration through the Reconstruction, with special emphasis given to inventions and technology of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and geography of the Americas, with special emphasis on Mexico, Canada, and U.S. regional geography. These areas of focus target four major content strands: History, Geography, Government and Citizenship, and Social Studies Skills. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Identify significant explorers, such as Christopher Columbus, Francisco Coronado, Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, and Samuel de Champlain, noting their accomplishments.
• Understand how conflict between the American colonies and Great Britain led to American independence.
• Understand political and social changes that occurred in the United States during the 19th century, including changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution, and explain how these changes led to conflict among sections of the United States.
• Describe the causes and effects of the Civil War and its aftermath.
• Apply geographic tools, including maps, legends, and symbols.
• Locate and describe U.S. regions made up of various groups of states, such as New England and the Great Plains.

Additionally, students will gain practice in report-writing and story-writing, covering topics like proverbs, the Pledge of Allegiance, frontier life, inventions, and more.

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LANGUAGE ARTS

Language Arts Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Language Arts 300 focuses on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas-reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:

• Reading - introduces students to basic reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and facts and opinions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of short stories, a short play, and haiku poetry.
• Writing - develops students' understanding of sentence structure, providing hands-on experience with complete sentences and parts of speech; introduces students to roots and affixes, and basic word relationships, including homographs, synonyms, and antonyms; develops students' vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, haiku poetry, short stories, and friendly letters.
• Special Topics - introduces basic research skills, including the use of atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspaper and magazine articles, and textbooks.

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Language Arts Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Language Arts 400 focuses on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas-reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:

• Reading - introduces students to basic reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and facts and opinions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences; develops students capacity for identifying basic elements of narrative prose; introduces students to types of nonfiction, including biographies, autobiographies, and short essays; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of short stories, nonfiction pieces, and poetry.
• Writing - develops student's understanding of sentence structure, providing hands-on experience with subject-verb agreement and parts of speech; emphasizes parts of speech and their roles, including adjectives, nouns, and verbs; familiarizes students with roots and affixes, and basic word relationships, including homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms; develops students' vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, four-line poetry, and short stories; guides students through planning, organizing, writing, and revising a report.
• Listening - teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these throughout the lessons.
• Special Topics - teaches basic research skills, including dictionary, encyclopedia, and safe Internet usage.

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Language Arts Grade 5 - 1 Credit
Language Arts 500 continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas-reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:

• Reading- develops students' basic reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and facts and opinions; introduces more advanced reading skills, showing students how to make inferences and derive implied meanings; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences, with emphasis on nouns, adverbs, and verb tenses; develops students' capacities for identifying basic elements of narrative prose; introduces students to types of nonfiction, including biographies, autobiographies, and short essays; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of excerpts from Beowulf, Call it Courage, and Gulliver's Travels and of various short stories, nonfiction pieces, and poetry.
• Writing- develops students' understanding of sentence structure, providing hands-on experience with subject-verb agreement and parts of speech; emphasizes parts of speech and their roles, including adjectives, nouns, and verbs; familiarizes students with roots, affixes, and basic word relationships, including homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms; develops students' vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, dialogue, poetry, and short stories; guides students through planning, organizing, writing, and revising a report.

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MATHEMATICS

Mathematics Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Math 300 is a full-year elementary math course focusing on number skills and numerical literacy. In it, students will gain solid experience with number theory and operations, learning how to apply these in measurement situations. This course also integrates geometric concepts and skills throughout the units, as well as introducing students to statistical concepts. By the end of the course, students will be expected to do the following:

• Understand place value and know how to compare and order numbers.
• Perform addition and subtraction, carrying and borrowing on whole numbers.
• Know basic multiplication facts.
• Understand representations in fraction and mixed number forms.
• Understand concepts of likelihood and basic probability.
• Understand concepts of shape, symmetry, and perimeter.
• Understand measurement concepts, including time and temperature.
• Understand representations using decimals and money.

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Mathematics Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Math 400 is a full-year elementary math course focusing on number skills and numerical literacy. In it, students will gain solid experience with number theory and operations, including decimals and fractions. This course also integrates geometric concepts and skills throughout the units, teaches measurement skills, and introduces students to statistical concepts. By the end of the course, students will be expected to do the following:

• Perform all four operations on whole numbers.
• Compare and order numbers, using place value and rounding.
• Add and subtract fractions and decimals.
• Understand measurement concepts, including the metric system.
• Calculate perimeters and areas of regular plane shapes.
• Represent data on varied statistical charts.

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Mathematics Grade 5 - 1 Credit
Math 500 is a full-year elementary math course focusing on number skills, numerical literacy, and geometric concepts. In it, students will gain solid experience with number theory and operations, including whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. In addition, students will develop their understanding of measurement and two- and three- dimensional figures. This course also integrates mathematical practices throughout the units, as well as introducing students to algebraic, statistical, and probability concepts. By the end of the course, students will be expected to do the following:

• Perform all four operations on whole numbers and decimals (to hundredths).
• Perform addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators.
• Understand place value of decimal numbers (to thousandths).
• Evaluate expressions for given values and plot whole number ordered pairs on coordinate grids.
• Represent and interpret data on line plots, stem-and-leaf plots, line graphs, and bar graphs.
• Convert units of measurement within a given measurement system.
• Classify plane shapes and calculate their perimeter and area.

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SCIENCE

Science Grade 3 - 1 Credit
Science 300 is a basic elementary course intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in God's physical universe. This course provides a broad survey of the major areas of science. Some of the areas covered in Science 300 include the human body, plants, animals, health and nutrition, matter, sound waves, earth science, and heat energy. The course seeks to develop the student's ability to understand and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects designed to build on children's natural curiosity. The student will explore, observe, and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Collectively, this should help students develop a subject-matter knowledge base. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the systems in a human body.
• Discuss the process a plant goes through in order to grow.
• Explain the difference between types of animals.
• Determine which eating and care habits are the healthiest for students.
• Distinguish between the three phases of matter and describe their properties.
• Explain how sound travels.
• Describe why time and seasons change.
• Discuss how rocks are formed and how they change.
• Explain how heat is produced.

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Science Grade 4 - 1 Credit
Science 400 is a basic elementary course intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in God's physical universe. This course builds on concepts taught in Science 300, providing a broad survey of the major areas of science. Some of the areas covered in Science 400 include the study of plants and animals, ecology, work and simple machines, electricity and magnetism, properties of water and matter, weather, solar system, and the different spheres of earth. The course seeks to develop the student's ability to understand and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects to capitalize on children's natural curiosity. The student will explore, observe, and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Collectively, this should help students develop and build on their subject-matter knowledge base. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Use their main senses for observation of the world around them.
• Describe different uses for plants.
• Discuss the differences among the ways that different animals act.
• Understand how man is responsible for preserving and conserving nature.
• Explain the different types of simple machines.
• Describe an electrical current and how it relates to magnetism.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the different properties of water.
• Observe weather and how it affects man.
• Describe our solar system.
• Discuss the three different spheres of the earth and how they interact.
• Explain the changes in seasons and time.

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Science Grade 5 - 1 Credit
Science 500 is a basic elementary course intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in God's physical universe. This course expands on the Science 300 and Science 400 courses, providing a broad survey of the major areas of science. Some of the areas covered in Science 500 include the study of cells, plants and animals, ecology, energy, geology, properties of matter, and the natural cycles of life. The course seeks to develop the student's ability to understand and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects to capitalize on the students' natural curiosity. The student will explore, observe, and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Students at this level should begin to understand interrelationships between organisms, recognize patterns in ecosystems, and become aware of the cellular dimensions of living systems. Collectively, this should help students develop and build on their subject-matter knowledge base. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Use their main senses for observation of the world around them.
• Demonstrate an understanding of cells and their structure, both plant and animal.
• Differentiate between plants, animals, fungi, protozoa, and algae.
• Explain interactions between different life forms.
• Discuss different energy transformations.
• Describe geology and how it relates to the Flood.
• Demonstrate an understanding of fossil types and the formation of fossils.
• Understand natural cycles.

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FITNESS

Health Quest - .5 Credit
Health Quest is a health science elective course for upper elementary and junior high students. The curriculum introduces students to the concepts of what good health is, why good health is important, and what students should do in order to achieve good health. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate an awareness of health as it applies to their own bodies, minds, and emotions.
• Demonstrate an awareness of health as it applies to their living environments.
• Identify the components of a healthy lifestyle and set reasonable goals to achieve a lifestyle of wellness.
• Understand that incorporating sound health practices creates a lifestyle of moderation and wellness.
• Understand the responsibility of properly stewarding the bodies God has given them as directed in the Bible.
• Describe health as it applies to broader society, the world, and their own responsibility to stimulate good health around them.

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Spanish Elementary - .5 Credit
Designed for grades 3 - 6, Elementary Spanish provides students with the fundamentals of Spanish focusing principally on vocabulary acquisition, through story, games, activities, memory aids, songs, and cultural insights.
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French Elementary - .5 Credit
Elementary French introduces students grades 3-6 to the French language and culture. This five-unit course focuses on developing and integrating language skills through communication, culture, connections, comparisons, and communities. Course materials rely heavily on visual and audio media and encourage students to take an active part in listening and responding. Students are also encouraged to use the French language in creating stories similar to the ones they see and hear in the course. Upon successfully completing the course, the student should have mastered the following concepts:

• Learn sufficient vocabulary and structures in the French language to allow for elementary communication.
• Interpret written French on a variety of basic topics.
• Use the language in the learning setting.
• Use the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.