Grade 7

Family and Consumer Science Food Lab allows students to learn about healthy eating, nutrition, portion sizes, and further exploring foods through various hands-on learning activities, including food labs.

In the Family and Consumer Sciences Sewing Lab, students will have the opportunity to practice and improve skills needed to grow in independence and in their abilities to contribute toward family and social well-being. They will be encouraged to practice effective management skills and show responsibility while completing individual and group projects, including sewing, consumerism, and time management.

Health Education allows students to develop the skills necessary to become health advocates. Students learn cognitive and social skills that help promote positive living through studying nutrition, fitness, personal health, HIV/AIDS intentional/unintentional injuries, and substance abuse.

In 6th and 7th grades, the basic elements and principles of Art and Design are introduced in a way that builds upon skills learned in each previous year. Students work with various materials in 2D and 3D formats (drawing, painting, ceramics, etc.) and are instructed in properly using the tools and materials.  

Sketchbooks are used each year to build a portfolio of student work and for observational drawing labs, which allow students to practice observational drawing and to understand proportion, visual measurement, drawing the human figure, and drawing from real life.

STEM at Kennett Middle School is meant to give our students a unique approach to better understanding engineering concepts.  One of the nation’s leading STEM curriculum programs, Project Lead the Way, provides the content for these classes. This curriculum is focused on providing activity-, project-, and problem-based learning. Throughout their three years at KMS, our students will work through a different course each year. 

• Sixth graders will take Design and Modeling, using industry-standard 3D modeling software to create a virtual image of their designs and produce a portfolio to showcase their creative solutions.  
• Seventh graders focus on App Creator.  This unit will expose students to computer science by computationally analyzing and developing solutions to authentic problems through mobile app development. It will convey the positive impact of the application of computer science to other disciplines and society.  Students will customize their experience by choosing a problem that interests them from health, environment, emergency preparedness, education, community service, and school culture. Because problems in the real world involve multiple disciplines, the unit will introduce students to biomedical science concepts as they work on solutions for the specific problems they choose to tackle.
• In their final year at the middle school, the eighth-grade students may take Automation and Robotics, where they will trace the history, development, and influence of automation and robotics. They learn about mechanical systems, energy transfer, machine automation, and computer control systems. Students use a robust robotics platform to design, build, and program a solution to solve an existing problem.