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Middle School Math
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Click almost anywhere on this colorful website to find links related to math learning for students, or training and coursework for teachers. Useful connections to Diamond Middle School homepage and “Class Links” section where all teachers' current assignments and up-to-date notes can be found. Math homework, extra math problems and useful sites are available to students in grades 6, 7 and 8 (Omega Team). |
Teacher: Tatyana Finkelstein, Diamond Middle School, Lexington
Tatyana also uses this website to provide background and request support for the critically ill daughter of a close friend (a math professor at U. of Oregon). |
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This site is designed for both students and parents providing chapter overviews and objectives for each sixth grade subject area. The “Homework” section gives daily assignments and team announcements. Helpful and fun, annotated Math and Science links to sites offering self-check quizzes, practice tests, and extra support tools such as the award winning San Francisco Exploratorium and The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements. |
Teacher: Keith Turner, Remington Middle School, Franklin |
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Eye catching pages on math curriculum and student expectations (includes cartoons). Links such as Cool Math for Kids and Math Counts are available to students interested in math practice, games or competition. Click on “Externship” to view an explanation and slideshow of the teacher's summer work in the electronic materials division at Rohm and Haas. |
Teacher: Lynn Pistorino, Littleton Middle School, Littleton |
Middle School Science
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This site offers links to attention-grabbing science sites related to specific curriculum areas (NASA Kids, The McAuliffe Challenger Center, Museum of Science) each with a brief description of its content and motivation for student‘s viewing.
Students and parents can find the current month's due dates for quizzes, tests, ands projects in all subject areas and weekly homework assignments. |
Teacher: Cynthia Krol, Walsh Middle School, Framingham |
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This site provides information for students and parents class expectations, procedures, and homework. A description of curriculum content is included thoroughly covering the scope and sequence of sixth grade science.
A resource section provides parents with Waltham Public School and an extensive list of interesting and fun science education links.
Be sure to visit the page on this teacher's LIFT2 externship working as an operations engineer at Keyspan where you'll also find connections to digital literacy sites. |
Teacher: Dovile Murray, McDevitt Middle School, Waltham |
Middle School Technology/Engineering
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The site can motivate student interest in engineering with its useful information on careers in the field and links to interactive engineering sites by Intel, Analog Devices, and others. “What is Engineering” provides a complete listing of various types of engineers and their primary functions with links giving an inside look at the professional life of an engineer... Day in an Electrical Engineer's Life, PBS's Interview with an Electrical Engineer.
Career Planning Strategies page outlines middle and high school skills helpful for pursuing a job in this profession. Students can go to multiple, related sites that provide practical planning advice and direction (even for middle school) i.e. Mapping-Your-Future, National Academy of Engineering's Girls Guide to Career Planning. |
Teacher: Daniel Grant, McDevitt Middle School, Waltham |
High School Math
John Shea – Department of Mathematics This site provides connections to comprehensive information on course assignments, class expectations (materials, grading, homework), and links to helpful sites such as High School Hub, Cool Math Graph, and Google.
It also includes links for the Lexington High Math Department, “Family Links” (Mass. Dept. of Education Parent Involvement Program and Math Curriculum Frameworks), and “Student Links” that include sites for math history, computers and calculators, project ideas. |
Teacher: John Shea, Lexington High School, Lexington |
High School Science
Mr. Hinnenkamp's Website (Honors/AP Biology, Anatomy/Physiology) Students will find syllabii, lab report formats, vocabulary, calendar for tests and assignments, and extensive selection of PowerPoint presentations (55 chapters for AP Biology alone) within each course area.
“Online Quizzes” link students to various test sites created by science educators and universities for on-line learning. “Offsite Links” is a comprehensive, annotated selection of sites supporting specific topics covered in advanced high school biology courses i.e. photosynthesis, cell respiration, genetics.
There are additional links to Natick High School and School District pages. |
Teacher: Dan Hinnenkamp, Natick High School, Natick |
MHS Physics Department (Physics) This site provides detailed syllabii for both AP and Honors Physics accompanied with PowerPoint lessons for each specific unit of study (kinematics, gravitation, thermodynamics, etc.). General information is also included on course expectations for homework, class work, and AP test success.
Be sure to view teacher's externship experience at Harvard lab studying current lab techniques and methods involved in the manufacture of solar cells from samples of black silicon. |
Teacher: Christopher Clements, Marlborough High School, Marlborough |