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Board hears first reads on new science, health and elective courses including AI and video-game design

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The curriculum and instruction committee presented new high school units in Earth Science and biology, revised health curricula, and proposed two new math electives (Artificial Intelligence and Video Game Design); staff said the electives would require no additional cost and would use Open Educational Resources.

The Southington School District presented first readings for several new curriculum units and elective courses, including an Artificial Intelligence elective and a video-game design course.

At the Jan. 23 meeting the curriculum and instruction committee summarized new units and course proposals it reviewed Jan. 10. New high-school science units described included a high-school Earth Science unit titled Geodynamics: Energy, Forces and Earth's Crust, a…

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