Your brain is like a muscle, and it can get stronger with exercise just like the rest of your body! Using games, puzzles, and interactive scenarios you will learn how to exercise your brain to increase your memory, boost your mental flexibility and problem-solving skills, decrease your distractions, and more. Let’s get our brains in tip-top shape!

 

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Define Executive Functioning
2. Identify strategies for working memory that can be used in your daily life
3. Practice finding multiple solutions to a problem
4. Recognize routines and practice performing them in a different way
5. Identify your common distractions
6. Practice ignoring distractions, negative thoughts, and unwanted behaviors

 Units

Unit 1: What is Executive Functioning?

Unit 2: Working Memory

Unit 3: Mental Flexibility

Unit 4: Inhibitory-Control

Unit 5: Exercise those Brains!

 

In this course, you will explore identity, diversity, justice, and action while answering the question “what does it mean to be a good citizen?”. Together, we will practice recognizing stereotypes and work on building empathy, respect, understanding, and connection as a way to respond to diversity.

 

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Identify what it means to be a good citizen 
2. Develop positive social identities based on membership in multiple groups in society
3. Define what shapes our identities
4. Develop language and knowledge to accurately and respectfully describe how people (including themselves) are both similar to and different from each other and others in their identity groups
5. Respond to diversity by practicing building empathy, respect, understanding, and connection
6. Recognize stereotypes and relate to people as individuals rather than representatives of groups
7. Express empathy when people are excluded or mistreated because of their identities and concern when they themselves experience bias

Units

Unit 1: What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen?

Unit 2: Identity

Unit 3: Diversity

Unit 4: Justice

Unit 5: Action

 

Let’s get cooking! This course will guide you through making a meal plan, creating a grocery list, following a recipe, and cooking a meal! You will learn about the utensils and appliances in your kitchen, healthy food choices, and kitchen and food safety skills, including knife skills, fire safety, and how long those leftovers are safe to eat! Share your favorite recipes and learn new ones from your classmates – “bon appetit!”

 

Course Outcomes

1. Identify cooking utensils and appliances and their uses
2. Recall safety and sanitation practices in a kitchen environment
3. Prepare a weekly meal plan that works for your schedule, dietary restrictions, and budget
4. Translate your meal plan into a grocery shopping list
5. Identify ingredients and nutritional value in pre-packaged food
6. Prepare a dish by following a recipe

Units 

Unit 1: What's in the Kitchen?

Unit 2: Kitchen & Food Safety

Unit 3: Meal Planning

Unit 4: Grocery Shopping & Ingredients

Unit 5: Following a Recipe

Living on your own comes with new responsibilities, including making your living space a safe place to be. In this course, you’ll learn about the hazards and risks in each room of your living space and how to deal with them, how to set physical and emotional boundaries, and you will make plans for what to do in case of an emergency.

 

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Define what it means to be safe in living spaces
2. Identify fire hazards in the home
3. Discuss why kitchen safety is important
4. Recall safety risks in the bedroom
5. Recognize safety risks in the bathroom
6. Define your boundaries for your living space
7. Create (or update) a safety route escape plan for your living space

Units 

Unit 1: What Does it Mean to Create Safe Spaces?

Unit 2: Kitchen Safety

Unit 3: Your Bedroom

Unit 4: Your Bathroom

Unit 5: Living Spaces & Boundaries

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Have you ever wanted a job, but weren’t sure where to start? This course will introduce the steps of career exploration, writing a resume, searching for jobs, filling out paper and online applications, and practicing interview questions to help you build your confidence and get started. You will even get to practice a few common job skills. Let’s get to work!

 

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Identify personal job skills
2. Explore different career opportunities that align with your skills
3. Develop job search tools appropriate to desired field, including resumes, letters, applications, etc.
4. Identify specific job openings and application processes in desired area
5. Prepare for and practice effective interview skills (both in-person and remote)
6. Practice common job tasks, including collating; filling out forms, filing, etc.

Units 

Unit 1: Career Exploration

Unit 2: Resumes & Cover Letters

Unit 3: Job Searches

Unit 4: Interview Skills

Unit 5: Common Job Skills