2boysmom Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I'd like my son to take a geography class from the Potter's School next year. I hear the teacher is good. The class though says it's for 7th-8th graders. But there is no "geography" class for Freshman and up. We live overseas, and I think he'd really benefit from this class. I read that geography is accepted as a History/Social science credit for most colleges. Would there be any problem in taking this class his freshman year and getting 1.0 credit for it? (he's not going to be a history major but needs 3-4 credits for the colleges we are looking into). My plan would be for his history: Freshman-Geography Sophomore-US History Junior-World History Senior- maybe ART History? (not sure) Thanks for any help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiana Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 They do have a high school geography course, it's the first one on this page: http://registration.pottersschool.org/w/731.jsp History and Social Science are listed separately for high school, and geography is listed with social science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 In some areas, middle school includes 7th, 8th, and 9th, and a general middle school course might therefore be okay for 9th grade as well. Sometimes, when choosing between a middle school text or a high school text for my 9th grader, I would choose the middle school text because I felt it was clearer to understand. If it just didn't seem to live up to 9th grade rigor, however, I would add more to the course -- special projects, supplemental reading, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2boysmom Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 They do have a high school geography course, it's the first one on this page: http://registration.pottersschool.org/w/731.jsp History and Social Science are listed separately for high school, and geography is listed with social science. Thanks, some how I totally missed this :) BTW: any experience with this class? I'm trying to decide if this would be the better option than the 7th-8th grade one. The 7th-8th is using a text actually written by the teacher, Brenda Runkle, so I'm thinking that might be better, but I haven't heard any news about this HS course, so anyone with experience out there, please comment. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2boysmom Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 In some areas, middle school includes 7th, 8th, and 9th, and a general middle school course might therefore be okay for 9th grade as well. Sometimes, when choosing between a middle school text or a high school text for my 9th grader, I would choose the middle school text because I felt it was clearer to understand. If it just didn't seem to live up to 9th grade rigor, however, I would add more to the course -- special projects, supplemental reading, etc. Thanks, my gut is telling me that the class could always be "meated" up, but taking a higher level class might be too much with so many other classes going on...hmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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