Elective Courses
Agriculture
The Roosevelt Ag Department offers many subjects of study for students. We offer horticulture, agricultural production, experience with live animals as well as various FFA contests and activities. The program offers both indoor and outdoor classroom components with hands on learning activities inside and out. Like the other programs at Roosevelt, the Ag department also offers an alternative to the traditional classroom in the world of plants, animals and leadership.
Horticulture
Students
utilize the school’s 5 commercial greenhouses to produce annuals, herbs,
shrubs, trees and hanging baskets. The plants are sold to locally to
retailers, landscape contractors and municipalities. Row crops produced in
the market garden include: grape tomatoes, chili peppers, collards, onions,
squash and cucumbers. The vegetables are sold at the Lake Wales Care Center.
Grown without synthetic chemicals like pesticides, herbicides and
fungicides, our program builds healthy soil using natural fertilizers and
amendments like humic acid and seaweed. Students also provide landscaping
services to local schools and businesses. Please visit the “Around campus”
section of the website for more information.
Culinary Arts
Our Culinary Arts department offers a great way for students to discover through a hands-on approach the world of food. Students will learn about the health and nutrition aspects of food, how to properly and safely prepare basic dishes, and even how to work successfully in a commercial kitchen setting by training in our own student operated restaurant, the E Street Grille. Lots of actual kitchen time takes place so come prepared to learn, work, and eat!
Synergistic Lab - 9th grade Elective
Synergistic Systems - Taking a Hands On Approach to Technology
Have you ever wondered why we use technology to improve our lives? Our Synergistic Lab gives us many answers to these questions by giving the student the opportunities to broaden their ideas and futures. We have 8 different learning stations (Computer Given Instruction) in which we use to accomplish this.
Modules include:
- CADD
- Computer Graphics & Animation
- Research & Design
- Rocketry & Space
- Engineering Bridges
- Digital Manufacturing
- Confident Consumer
- Energy Power & Mechanics
In many of these stations the students will have a finished product. Finished projects include, but are not limited to, CO2 Dragster, Rocket, Balsa Bridge, House Design, Animated Logos.
Team Building and Leadership
The Team Building and Leadership class is designed to provide students
the opportunity to learn teamwork and cooperation while learning to create
strategies, analyze situations and results, and evaluate success while being
engaged in fun and challenging learning activities. The goal is to have
students realize that more can be accomplished by ordinary people working
together as a unit than by extraordinary people working individually. The
students learn to trust and depend on their classmates to complete
activities successfully.