Electives - Cougar Mountain Middle School

Students learn how to combine mechanisms with inputs and outputs to make robots do work all on their own!

Students use learning from Automation and Robotics and take it a step further to design and develop more complex robots and program them.

Students unleash their creativity and dive into the captivating world of images, animations, interactive art, and games.

Students explore the engineering design process to solve real-world problems.

This course is designed to give students a wide variety of art experiences, including step-by-step drawing, painting, printmaking, crafts, and sculpture.

This choice-based art course is designed to give students a wide variety of art experiences with a textile and fiber arts focus.

This choice-based art course is designed to give students a wide variety of art experiences with a sculpture and 3D focus.

This choice-based art class explores how art serves as a powerful tool for expressing ideas, telling stories, enriching communities, and addressing real world challenges.

Students will learn their choice of instrument in a group setting starting with flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and percussion with opportunities to switch to a variety of other woodwind and brass instruments mid-year.

Students will learn their choice of instrument in a group setting starting with flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and percussion with opportunities to switch to a variety of other woodwind and brass instruments.

Students will learn their choice of instrument in a group setting starting with flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and percussion with opportunities to switch to a variety of other woodwind and brass instruments.

For students who love to sing! Or, who want to learn how!  In this class, students sing in 2 parts and by the end of the year advance to some 3-part singing.

This class is a performing class for students to play Violin, Viola, Cello or Bass.

This class is designed for students who wish to progress to a higher level of performance on their stringed instrument.

The advanced orchestra is a high profile, performance-based ensemble for students continuing their playing excellence on the violin, viola, cello or bass.

For students with no experience as well as students who have previously been involved in theater.

Students work to learn all aspects of publishing which includes accurate reporting and writing, effective photography and design, fair and equal representation, and professional communication skills.

This course focuses on building skills in communication, group process, managerial, self-awareness, human relations, and project planning.

Leadership class is a unique opportunity to be part of a group that helps to set the tone at school.

Read 180 is a multi-faceted class that gets students reading, writing, speaking, and thinking critically in all content areas.

The strategies learned in this Study Skills Class help students identify the main idea and related details, organizational methods for useful notes, and visual cues to identify the most important content.

The strategies learned in this Study Skills Class help students identify the main idea and related details, organizational methods for useful notes, and visual cues to identify the most important content.

Spanish 1 is a yearlong class that provides an introduction to the culture and language of the Spanish-speaking world.