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Academics at FMS

MATH

  • The mission of Horry County Schools K-12 Mathematics is to provide a premier world-class educational experience in mathematics. Our commitment to excellence through instruction, continuous professional development, well-designed curriculum, technology enhanced learning, and real world connections will help insure that students achieve college and career readiness in order to compete in an ever changing society. 
  • Students will be challenged to develop skills in analysis, reasoning, creativity, collaborative learning, and self-expression as they gain knowledge of mathematics. We will maintain high academic and behavioral expectations and put service to students above all else. 
  • SC Career- and College-Ready Standards for Mathematics

 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 

  • Reading, writing, communicating, thinking critically, and performing in meaningful, relevant ways within and across disciplines are essential practices for accessing and deeply understanding content. Immersion in the language and thinking processes of each discipline guides students to develop and cultivate a deeper understanding of particular disciplines.
  • College- and career-ready students must be able to expertly navigate curriculum, paying close attention to practices unique to a particular discipline. Disciplinary Literacy works in concert with Inquiry-Based Literacy Standards to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century. These practices also offer opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of the content in traditional and non-traditional ways.
  • SC Career- and College-Ready Standards for English Language Arts

 SCIENCE

  • Students should follow the 5E Instructional Framework:
    • 1.  Engage:  hands-on activities that provide shared experiences leading to possible connections to prior knowledge.  Student interest is piqued as they make observations and then discuss, question, inquire & make connections to what they already know. 
    • 2.  Explore: Students collaborate with a group to explore the concept through activities that introduce them to something NEW.  Experiences allow direct involvement as students collect additional information, consider connections and realtionships, make inferences and problem-solve.
    • 3.  Explain: Direct instruction is presented in a collaborative fashion.  Vocabulary is defined, and concepts are explained. Students clarify or modify their understanding and explain their findings by verbalizing or otherwise communicating their learning including the keywords provided by the teacher.
    • 4.  Elaborate: Generalizations about new learning are applied to previous investigations and questions.  Students relate what they learned to their own lives and the natural world that surrounds them daily.
    • 5.  Evaluate: Students have the opportunity to evaluate their own learning and prove what they know through writing, conversation, and demonstration.  Teachers assess student performance or understanding.  Students test their knowledge and continue to inquire about the world around them. 

  • South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Grade 6: World Civilizations - Students will study World Civilizations to uncover trends from prehistory to the present day. Students will learn what defines civilizations and how geography influenced the exchanges, expansion, and formation among and between them. Students will also inquire about the various social hierarchies of world civilizations and the changes and continuities of social systems. Ancient and classical civilizations will be studied to explore their enduring cultural, intellectual, and technological influences. Students will learn how increased global interactions led to transformations among and between world civilizations. Students will inquire about the development of world civilizations, past and present, and the connections between Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Students will continue to explore how these global interactions and exchanges led to cultural, intellectual, and technological advances that have continued to increase societies’ global interconnectedness with one another.
  • Grade 7: Geography of World Regions - Students will study Earth from a regional perspective, focusing on the continents by studying contemporary places and regions, identifying how people's experiences are rooted in places and organized into geographic areas. Students will learn about Earth’s physical conditions (e.g., climate, soils, vegetation) and how these features interact with Earth’s other living features. This course also focuses on human systems and the sum of human activities and characteristics (e.g., culture, ethnicity, gender, language, population, religion) that vary across the Earth’s surface. These systems also include the spatial distribution of population and movement, settlement patterns, and economic and political systems. Students will explore the interactions between the environment and society to learn how human activities modify Earth, how resources are used, and how physical systems, such as climate, present risks to humans. These physical and cultural regional conditions create unique landscapes, an understanding of which lays the foundation for learning about connections to other peoples and places on Earth.
  • Grade 8: South Carolina and the United States - Students will study the history of South Carolina within the context of United States history in grade eight. This study begins with South Carolina’s colonial development and settlement as a British colony. South Carolinians played pivotal roles throughout the American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention, which established the foundations for the new nation. The sectional division came as a result of the growing institution of slavery, interpretations of the role of government, and expansion of the country. South Carolina led the secession of Southern states, culminating in the Civil War. As the nation attempted to heal the wounds of the war, Reconstruction policies brought about political change while sectional division remained. The end of the 19th century ushered in industrialization in South Carolina and the nation, providing new opportunities for many people. Throughout the 20th century, South Carolina emerged as a national defense production, agriculture, and tourism leader. As the state grew economically, social change was also brought on by the Civil Rights Movement. During the turn of the 21st century, South Carolina continues attracting businesses and people while finding solutions to new challenges.
  • South Carolina Social Studies Academic Standards