The Canyons Virtual Academy program is intended to be parent-led. Students will have a teacher to grade assignments and success coaches available to assist students and parents with guidance and support as needed, ensuring that parents and students have access to resources and advice to maximize their learning experience.
Students must be enrolled in a Canyons District boundary school. Out-of-District students must be approved through Utah’s SOEP in conjunction with Canyons Virtual Academy enrollment. Information can be found on our Grades 6-8 SOEP information page.
Specialized educational services, including Special Education (SPED), will be coordinated and facilitated through the students’ boundary schools.
The Canyons Virtual Academy course catalog provides information to assist students in selecting classes for the successful completion of middle school.
Please note that Canyons Virtual Academy does not offer Dual Language Immersion, SALTA, honors, or IB courses. For more information on Canyons District graduation requirements, visit the Canyons School District course catalog page. Students outside of Canyons District should consult their boundary school counselors or their own district websites.
*The application to Canyons Virtual Academy is for the full 2023-2024 school year. If you decide that online learning is not the right fit for your child, students may transfer at the term break or by administration approval. While attendance and participation in Canyons Virtual Academy may look different than a traditional school, regular participation in all classes is required. Failure to follow program requirements may result in removal from the program.
Click on a grade (row) below to display Canyons Virtual Academy course offerings within that grade.
Grade 6 – College & Career Awareness
Description: A course designed to increase awareness of college and career pathways through simulations and project-based experiences. The College and Career Awareness course explores high school, college, and career options based on individual student interests, abilities, and skills. Students will investigate high-skill, and/or in-demand jobs in the Utah labor market while developing workplace skills.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 39010000001
Grade 6 – English
Description: This course will focus on college and career ready standards for English Language Arts found in the Utah Core State Standards (UCSS), which have been mapped by CSD teachers. The standards include skills for writing, reading, speaking and listening. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this course will enable students to continue on a college- and career- ready path.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 06020000010
Grade 6 – Math
Description: The content focus for this course includes four critical areas of mathematic foundation skill: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; (3) writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and (4) developing understanding of statistical thinking. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this core math course will enable students to continue on a college and career ready path for math skills.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 07010000007
Grade 6 – Physical Education (PE)
Description: This course is an activity-based course designed to promote student knowledge of and positive disposition toward physical activity, fitness, and nutrition. Students will participate in competitive and cooperative activities. Organized games will promote physical fitness, social interaction, and fun. In addition, students will learn the importance of physical activity and proper nutrition for physical and emotional health.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 04020000081
Grade 6 – Science
Description: The sixth grade integrated science course provides a framework for student understanding of the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through the study of observable phenomena on Earth. Students will explore 1) the role of energy and gravity in the solar system as they compare the scale and properties of objects in the solar system and model the Sun-Earth-Moon system, 2) heat energy and how it affects some properties of matter, including states of matter and density, 3) the relationship between heat energy and matter is observable in many phenomena on Earth, such as seasons, the water cycle, weather, and climates, 4) types of ecosystems on Earth are dependent upon the interaction of organisms with each other and with the physical environment. By researching interactions between the living and nonliving components of ecosystems, students will understand how the flow of energy and cycling of matter affects stability and change within their environment.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 08050000005
Grade 6 – Social Studies
Description: This course is focused on the introduction of social studies literacy skills with a focus on world history with connections to national, and local history. This course will develop the reading and writing in content area skills that will build the foundation for secondary social studies throughout middle and high school.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 09090000010
Grade 7 – College & Career Awareness
Description: A course designed to increase awareness of college and career pathways through simulations and project-based experiences. The College and Career Awareness course explores high school, college, and career options based on individual student interests, abilities, and skills. Students will investigate high-skill, and/or in-demand jobs in the Utah labor market while developing workplace skills.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 39010000001
Grade 7 – English
Description: This course will focus on college and career ready standards for English Language Arts found in the Utah Core State Standards (UCSS), which have been mapped by CSD teachers. The standards include skills for writing, reading, speaking and listening. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this course will enable students to continue on a college- and career- ready path.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 06020000020
Grade 7 – Math
Description: The content focus for this course includes four critical areas of mathematic foundational skill: (1) proportional relationships; (2) operations with rational numbers, expressions, and linear equations; (3) scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and problems involving use of area, surface area, and volume: (4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this core math course will enable students to continue on a college and career ready path for math skill.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 07080000070
Grade 7 – Painting 1
Description: Painting 1 includes wet and dry color media with processes such as transparent and opaque painting focusing on the operations of color. Techniques with color media and preparation of grounds and supports will be covered. With an emphasis on studio production, this course is designed to develop higher-level thinking skills and art-related technology skills. Some art criticism, art history, and aesthetics may be included.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 02010000066
Grade 7 – Physical Education (PE)
Description: This course is an activity-based course designed to promote student knowledge of and positive disposition toward physical activity, fitness, and nutrition. Students will participate in competitive and cooperative activities. Organized games will promote physical fitness, social interaction, and fun. In addition, students will learn the importance of physical activity and proper nutrition for physical and emotional health.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 04020000081
Grade 7 – Science
Description: The seventh grade integrated science course looks for relationships of cause and effect which enable students to pinpoint mechanisms of nature and allow them to make predictions. Students will explore how forces can cause changes in motion and are responsible for the transfer of energy and the cycling of matter. This takes place within and between a wide variety of systems, from simple, short-term forces on individual objects to the deep, long- term forces that shape our planet. In turn, Earth’s environments provide the conditions for life as we know it.Organisms survive and reproduce only to the extent that their own mechanisms and adaptations allow. Evidence for the evolutionary histories of life on Earth is provided through the fossil record, similarities in the various structures among species, organism development, and genetic similarities across all organisms. Additionally, mechanisms shaping Earth are understood as forces affecting the cycling of Earth’s materials. Questions about cause and effect and the ongoing search for evidence in science, or science’s ongoing search for evidence, drive this storyline.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 08050000001
Grade 7 – Social Studies (Utah Studies)
Description: This course is designed to help students understand Utah’s early history and Utah from statehood to the present. Students will review the interaction between Utah’s geography and its inhabitants, as well as the formative contributions of Native Americans, explorers, and Utah pioneers.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 09050000070
Grade 8 – Art Foundations
Description: *Coming Soon*
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 02010000066
Grade 8 – English
Description: This course will focus on college and career ready standards for English Language Arts found in the Utah Core State Standards (UCSS), which have been mapped by CSD teachers. The standards include skills for writing, reading, speaking and listening. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this course will enable students to continue on a college- and career- ready path.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 06020000020
Grade 8 – Health
Description: Students will develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for practicing lifelong, health-enhancing behaviors.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 04010000001
Grade 8 – Math
Description: The content focus for this course includes three critical areas of mathematic foundational skill: (1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling and solving linear equations, and solving systems of linear equations; (2) introduction of functions and use of functions to describe quantitative relationships; (3) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem. Successful mastery of the key concepts in this core math course will enable students to continue on a college and career ready path for math skill.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 07080000080
Grade 8 – Painting 1
Description: Painting 1 includes wet and dry color media with processes such as transparent and opaque painting focusing on the operations of color. Techniques with color media and preparation of grounds and supports will be covered. With an emphasis on studio production, this course is designed to develop higher-level thinking skills and art-related technology skills. Some art criticism, art history, and aesthetics may be included.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 02010000066
Grade 8 – Physical Education (PE)
Description: This course is an activity-based course designed to promote student knowledge of and positive disposition toward physical activity, fitness, and nutrition. Students will participate in competitive and cooperative activities. Organized games will promote physical fitness, social interaction, and fun. In addition, students will learn the importance of physical activity and proper nutrition for physical and emotional health.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 04020000081
Grade 8 – Science
Description: The eighth grade integrated science course describe the constant interaction of matter and energy in nature. Students will explore how matter is arranged into either simple or complex substances. The strands emphasize how substances store and transfer energy, which can cause them to interact physically and chemically, provide energy to living organisms, or be harnessed and used by humans. Matter and energy cycle and change in ecosystems through processes that occur during photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Additionally, substances that provide a benefit to organisms, including humans, are unevenly distributed on Earth due to geologic and atmospheric systems. Some resources form quickly, allowing them to be renewable, while other resources are nonrenewable. Evidence reveals that Earth systems change and affect ecosystems and organisms in positive and negative ways.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 08050000010
Grade 8 – Social Studies (US History)
Description: This course covers events and issues from the Age of Exploration through Reconstruction and the Western movement, emphasizing the 18th and 19th centuries. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to exploration, colonization, the Revolutionary War, constitutional issues, nation building, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Western movement.
Course Length: Semesters
USOE Course Code: 09050000030
