If you are a Grade 8 summer school student looking to get a head-start on high school or a Grade 9 student looking to lighten the workload, UVA School online foundation courses is your one-stop-shop for the academic needs. See below for the courses offered by UVA School.
As an International student taking UVA School courses abroad, Grade 9 is the first step towards achieving the OSSD. The foundation courses are the basic courses that you take with UVA School to begin your global journey. Thus, we at UVA School strongly recommend that you establish a strong base of knowledge before advancing onto the Sophomore courses. By completing Grade 9 successfully at UVA School, we ensure you build a substantial opportunity in the upcoming years at UVA School as well as advanced studies internationally.
In the Grade 9 geography courses, students will develop their ability to apply both the geographic inquiry process and the concepts of geographic thinking. They apply this process and these concepts as they investigate geographic issues in Canada and deepen their awareness of interconnections between Canadian and global issues.
These courses enhance students’ ability to act as responsible global citizens and environmental stewards. Students will develop their spatial skills as they analyse information and data obtained from diverse sources, including field studies, aerial photographs, satellite imaging, various types of maps and graphs, geographic information systems (GIS), and digital representations.
The study of geography in Grade 9 builds on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills, including thinking skills, developed in geography in Grades 7 and 8 and enables students to move on to the further study of geography in Grades 11 and 12.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
This course is designed to develop the oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills that students need for success in their secondary school academic programs and in their daily lives.
Students will analyse literary texts from contemporary and historical periods, interpret informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on the use of strategies that contribute to effective communication.
The course is intended to prepare students for the Grade 10 academic English course, which leads to university or college preparation courses in Grades 11 and 12.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
This course is designed to develop the oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills that students need for success in their secondary school academic programs and in their daily lives.
Students will analyse literary texts from contemporary and historical periods, interpret informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on the use of strategies that contribute to effective communication.
The course is intended to prepare students for the Grade 10 academic English course, which leads to university or college preparation courses in Grades 11 and 12.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
This course enables students to develop an understanding of mathematical concepts related to algebra, analytic geometry, and measurement and geometry through investigation, the effective use of technology, and abstract reasoning.
Students will investigate relationships, which they will then generalize as equations of lines, and will determine the connections between different representations of a linear relation. They will also explore relationships that emerge from the measurement of three-dimensional figures and two-dimensional shapes.
Students will reason mathematically and communicate their thinking as they solve multi-step problems.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
This course equips students with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices now and lead healthy, active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities, students develop knowledge and skills related to movement competence and personal fitness that provide a foundation for active living.
Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them.
Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
This course enables students to develop their understanding of basic concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics, and to relate science to technology, society, and the environment.
Throughout the course, students will develop their skills in the processes of scientific investigation.
Students will acquire an understanding of scientific theories and conduct investigations related to sustainable ecosystems; atomic and molecular structures and the properties of elements and compounds; the study of the universe and its properties and components; and the principles of electricity.
Course type: Academic
Pre-requisite: None
Availability: Open
Language: English
Credit value: 1
Creator: UVA School
Format: Online course
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