This selection is an informational narrative in the form of a play or Readers' Theater. The play is about a group of boys and girls who are summertime campers at the National Sea Base camp in the Florida Keys. Their adventure includes camping, snorkeling, and sailing aboard the ship. This is a new adventure for the characters in this story.

This is a PowerPoint to be utilized during the Human Growth and Development Unit.  It covers fertilization, development of a fetus, pregnancy and delivery, as well as complications of pregnancy and delivery.

In nature most elements occur as a mixture of two or more isotopes. Eachisotope of an element has a fixed mass with a natural percent abundance. The mass of theelement needs to reflect the masses of these isotopes in their respective abundances. Giventhe masses and abundances, how is the Average Atomic Mass determined?
In this activity, you will determine the atomic mass of the fictitous element Candium.

This is a PowerPoint on Eating Disorders, including both common and uncommon ones.

Background for and techniques of visual observation, electronic imaging, and spectroscopy of the Moon, planets, satellites, stars, and brighter deep-space objects. Weekly outdoor observing sessions using 8-inch diameter telescopes when weather permits. Indoor sessions introduce needed skills. Introduction to contemporary observational astronomy including astronomical computing, image and data processing, and how astronomers work. Student must maintain a careful and complete written log which is graded. In this seminar we explore the background and techniques of visual observation and imaging of the Moon, planets, and brighter deep-space objects using 8-inch telescopes. (Some sample images appear in our "photo album".) Telescope work begins with visual observing, then we advance to CCD (charge-coupled device) cameras. Each class observing session meets one evening a week. Whenever weather conditions permit us to observe outdoors we do so! In cloudy weather we'll try some astronomical computing and image processing indoors instead. Either way, virtually all the work for the seminar is done during the evening sessions, so students must attend section every week in order to pass. Past experience has been that if you're really enthusiastic about hands-on out-under-the-sky astronomy, enough to be willing to deal with dressing warmly, tinkering with equipment, and committing one evening a week, 12.409 is great fun! One student wrote, "Unlike most seminars, you will earn your units and, unlike most other MIT courses, you will look forward to doing it!" But we'll be direct: 12.409 is not for everyone, and in past years many whose interest was merely casual found themselves unwilling to devote one entire evening every week to the class. If your interest is only casual then consider whether a more typical astronomy survey subject might be a better choice, since it'll have more outside preparation time that you can rearrange at your discretion and less in-class time that you can't.

Students will use a pully system (one provided by teacher or created from VEX equipment if have it available) to measure components and identify relationships between the three components of Newton's 2nd Law (force, mass, acceleration).  In this lesson, students will change either mass or force to calculate acceleration of a cart over a specific distance.  Students will be able to identify the relationship between force and acceleration for Part A of the activity and then the relationship between mass and acceleration for Part B.  In Part A of the activity, students will change the force pulling on the cart and keep the mass of the cart the same to calculate acceleration.  In Part B of the activity, students will change the mass of the cart and keep the pulling force the same to calculate acceleration.  Students will gather their data and constuct a graph representing the data gathered and identifying the relationship between acceleration and mass or force.  I have added the component that once all data is gathered from the experiment, students will write and document their results in a full lab report.   

This is a PowerPoint Tic-Tac-Toe Game where students work out probability word problems with multiple choice answers and it either dings or buzzes for correct or incorrect answers.  The board also gives either an X or an O  in blue or Yellow when the correct answer is given.

This Powerpoint presentation is presented in a direct instruction format. It outlines when and how to use quotation marks and provides practice items that can be completed individually or as a whole group.