Middle School Spring Intensives
Study Skills – Mr. Darin Lovelace
Grade 7-8
Limit: As Needed
Fee: None
Prerequisite: None
This intensive will be required for 7th and 8th grade students who have not
finished 1st or 2nd trimester core subjects or less than 75% of their 3rd
trimester core subject (Language Arts, Science, History, and Math).
Gardening 2.0 – Mrs. Johnson
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-8
Limit: 15 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
Very hands on course. We will be building garden boxes and filling them
with soils. We will also be building trelis and other items for plants to
climb on. In addition we will be establishing a collection system for green
waste for the composter and establishing collection points from classes and
lunchroom. Students will have the opportunity to assist elementary
students in planting. We may also be assisting with establishment of a drip
system for the garden. Research on how to keep the geese out of the garden
will also be a focus. Creating a design for the high tunnel will also be
explored and determined.
Generation Z: Finding a Balance Between Nature and Technology – Ms. Gunderson
0.5 Credit - Grades 6-9
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
What is Generation Z? It is the group of 23 million people born in 1995 or later
who grew up in the digital world. They learned how to use smart phones as soon
as they could hold them and learned the computer as soon as they had the
coordination to use a mouse or touchpad. It is the generation that grew up with
the 9-11 terrorist attack, the economic recession, and constant reports of war and
violence. Generation Zers are realistic, smart with money . . . and sometimes
addicted to the computer. Who is Generation Z? It is you! In this intensive, we
will explore some of the challenges of your generation. We will especially focus
on how to balance Nature and Technology. We will go hiking, help preserve
nature, and even visit a farm. If you are ready to get outside and learn how
spending time in nature can help you to succeed, then this is the intensive for you!
Middle School Spring Intensives
Introduction to Dance Technique – Mrs. Marie Pestana
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 20 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
We will be strengthening our dance technique in this intensive. We will cover
the basics including ballet feet positions, chaines turns, pique turns, pirouettes,
grand jettes, tour jettes, fan kicks, hitch kicks. We will work on across the floor
techniques, proper warm up techniques, as well as experiment with the basics of
choreography.
Get Out! – Ms. Jacey, Ms. Tori and Ms. Jade
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-8
Limit: 21 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
Get out and join us on adventures to help promote self-esteem in
students and team building throughout our student body! We will be
kayaking, doing a service project outdoors, going on a scavenger hunt
downtown, doing a ropes course and many more adventures! Capture
the moments through pictures and projects that we will be doing
throughout the intensive. Join us so you can GET OUT!
A Bite of China – Mrs. Suying Peck
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
The Chinese culture is 10,000 years old. This intensive will explore
many aspects of the Chinese culture by reading, interviewing and
taking field trips around the Salt Lake valley. Have you ever gone to a
Chinese restaurant? Maybe "yes", but have you ever imagine cook one
Chinese food with your own hands? Come to experience the fabulous
Chinese cooking in the kitchen by creating and eating Chinese food.
Sounds good?! Come and join "A Bite of China" and enjoy an
amazing experience!
Middle School Spring Intensives
Piano Crash Course for Beginners – Ms. Kimberly
Marsden
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 8 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
For non-music reading beginners or novice noodlers at the keyboard.
Learn chords and melodies, increase your skills of figuring out songs by
ear, and learn the basics of reading music. We will practice techniques that
help you break down tricky spots to make them easier to play, and learn
the fundamental techniques of moving around the piano. Enjoy visits from
guest pianists, and take a trip to see how pianos are built. Prepare to spend
a lot of time at the piano, building skill, developing body and mind
awareness, and being courageous in the learning process!
Teacher Assistants for Piano Crash Course for Beginners - Ms. Kimberly Marsden
0.25 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 3 students
Fee: None
Prerequisite: For students that already play piano and read music, at least on an
intermediate level. Learn how to teach the basics of piano skills to your AISU friends
and classmates, and increase your own skills in the process!
ZANIAC!
0.5 Credits – Grades 6-9
Limit: 30
Fee: $20 to cover transportation and licensing costs
Prerequisite: The course will welcome beginners and challenge the experienced
Offsite @ Zaniac’s Sugarhouse Campus (Transportation provided.)
In this computer programming intensive, students create fun videos and basic
games that can be shared online. Zaniac instructors introduce basic
programming concepts then dive into interactive software design. The course
will teach students the skills they need to design and create their very own
games from the ground up using Scratch.
Teacher Assistants for ZANIAC!
0.25 Credits – Grades 8-12
Limit: 5
Fee: None
Middle School Spring Intensives
CubeSat and Remote Sensing – Mr. Josh Marchant
0.5 Credit - Grade 8-12
Limit: 24 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
This course is a project-based high school level class that focuses on
teaching students how to solve problems they have never before seen, to
articulate their solution to these problems, and to present their ideas
before their peers and mentors in a preliminary design review. The first
project will require the students to design a CubeSat to answer a question
in science. The goal of this class is to answer one question, “can a group
of ordinary high school students design, build, and ultimately launch a
satellite into space?”
Have a Wild Thyme – Mrs. Jennifer Kasameyer
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
In this intensive, you will learn to identify and use native Utah plants in
salves and minor first aid. You will also learn to identify an ecosystem
by the plants found in an area and learn some basic survival techniques.
Plan on spending a lot of time outdoors so wear good hiking shoes,
sunscreen/hat and bring a water bottle.
Physics of Flying – Mrs. Drew Larson
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 15 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
For this intensive were planning on learning about how planes fly, about the
gauges, and what they all do, and how to properly fly a plane. We will probably
learn how to do that on the first day or two after that we will take a test on the
different gauges and what they do. After that we will learn how to fly on a flight
simulator and practice on that for a few days.
Middle School Spring Intensives
American Sign Language – 1A – Mrs. Aeowyn Pelca
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 20 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
An introduction to American Sign Language (ASL). Includes
basic grammar, vocabulary, fingerspelling, numbers, and
cultural information related to the Deaf Community. No
prerequisite. All skill levels welcome.
Game On! – Mr. Caleb Walker
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 20 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and project
based experience of fundamental gaming development concepts relating
to STEM. These concepts include game design, scripting, creation of
digital assets, graphic resources, animations, understanding hardware,
problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and project management.
Measure Up – Mrs. Christina Scheidler
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
This intensive will measure every single student in AISU and create a 30 foot life
size dot plot. The data will be recorded and statistically analyzed, with students
learning the fundamentals of statistics.
Comic Creation – Mr. Lutz and Mr. Adkins
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 30 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
Students will explore the worlds and stories created in comics. They will identify
the different types of stories and characters. Ultimately, they will work
collaboratively in pairs (one writer, one artist) to create a short comic book with
original stories and characters of their own.
Middle School Spring Intensives
Gaming the System – Mr. Greg Gorsuch
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $10
Prerequisite: None
This intensive will expose students to the world of board, dice, card,
puzzles, and outside games as well in a mathematical context. We will
be looking at not only the mathematics but the reasoning involved in
finding winning moves.
Robotics – Mrs. Kate Youmans
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12 with teacher approval
Limit: 24 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
Advances in Robotics have drastically changed the way we live, work and play
in just the last decade. In this course students will learn the basics of mechanical
systems, computer programming and electronics and how they come together to
create robots. Students will create their own robotic systems to solve an everyday
problem.
3-D drawing and Ceramics – Mrs. Deb Knudson
0.5 Credit - Grade 6-12 with teacher approval
Limit: 12 students
Fee: $25
Prerequisite: None
Students would choose an object/form found in nature learn how to draw it
three dimensionally then develop the drawings into an object made of clay.
Students would learn dimensions, shading, perspective in drawing and learn
a series of techniques with the clay, and producing a small scale 3-D object.
Wrestling – Coach Clint Lewis
0.5 Credit - Grade 8-12 with teacher approval
Limit: 10 students
Fee: $20
Prerequisite: None
Cyprus High wrestling Coach Clint Lewis will be helping anyone interested
in learning the techniques of wrestling. He will work with beginners to
advanced abilities.