Augusta Adult and Community Education
Maine Adult Education Program
with Wynne Winchell
Learn the basics of sewing as you work on a sewing project. Time will be devoted to reading your patterns, cutting out fabric, sewing techniques, and learning to use a machine. This course is for Diploma Students only.
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with Wynne Winchell
This course introduces the concepts from the Maine Learning Results. Students will engage in hands-on projects and activities to see the effect of an active citizenry in the local, state, and federal community. Students will utilize educational tools to supplement their learning experience. This course is for Diploma Students only.
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with Susan Parks
Students will compose his or her writing through fun exercises and activities to develop an understanding of the writing process. This process will provide the learner with opportunities to develop his or her critical thinking skills while demonstrating his or her ability to create a well-written pieced of work at the end of the course. This work will display correct sentence structure, effective use of words, exhibit proper grammar and punctuation by using good editing techniques. This course is for Diploma Students only.
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This course is designed to introduce students to basic economic principles and skills associated with Personal Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Global Economics. We will cover the basic skills (balancing a checkbook, maintaining good credit) you will need to get by in today's modern financial maze. We will explore what you need to know about credit and loans, insurance, taxes, how to pay for college and how to be an informed consumer when making a large purchase. This course is for Diploma Students only.
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The concepts in this one quarter course are types of energy, energy flow and conservation of energy. Students will increase their understanding of simple machines and apply these to create and optimize the performance of a device. Students will explore different methods used for electrical energy production. This course is for Diploma Students only.
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This course provides instruction in basic math computation. We will explore the place value system; the meaning of the four basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and their application to whole numbers; the language of math and how to translate between mathematical language and English; basic geometric concepts; simple probability; measurement; and the meaning of fractions and decimals. This course will lay the foundation for future math courses, in particular Foundations of Algebra.
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