La Center Middle School

Science/Wetlands Club
Open to Grades: 5, 6, 7 and 8
Length of Course: Full Year
Prerequisites: None
Goals/Skills Developed: Students explore various science content areas while they develop science process skills such as observation, inference, classification, forming a hypothesis, collecting and analyzing data. Students have fun learning science concepts through a variety of activities.
Assignments: Participation in after school activities.

Knowledge Bowl
Open to Grades: 6, 7 and 8
Length of Course: January through March
Prerequisites: Athletic Eligibility Requirements
Goals/Skills Developed: Students learn teamwork and develop camaraderie as they study and express their knowledge on a wide variety of topics and subject areas in a competitive atmosphere.
Assignments: Attend practices and meets on a regular basis.

Math Olympiad
Open to grades: 5, 6, 7, and 8
Length: Meet once per week after school in March and April to prepare for the event on the first Saturday of May each year.
Prerequisites: A desire to have fun and to be challenged in math
Goals/Objectives:
To give students an opportunity to compete in mathematics at a regional level
To challenge students in mathematics
To use collaboration skills to accomplish a common task
Assignments: There will be no assignments given outside of the group meetings.

Introduction to Drama
Open to Grades: 7 and 8
Length of Course: Full Year
Goals/Skills Developed: Drama is a progressive course that will last two semesters. Instruction and experience will be provided in the areas of acting, costuming, basic stage design, publicity, stagecraft, and direction, leading to public performance.
Assignments: Students will have a variety of acting and stagecraft