DC ACTS goals are to facilitate your capacity to improve your content knowledge, classroom instruction strategies and resources, and assessment for tailoring instruction in your subject area. Then you can provide more rigorous and standards-based course content for your classes and improve opportunities for your students to learn science through inquiry. More...

Resources for DC ACTS Science and Mathematics Teachers
This site is maintained by Dr. Toby Horn, DC ACTS in DCPS
Please contact Dr. Toby w/ corrections, comments and suggestions! Contact Dr. Florence Fasanelli about Mathematics issues
The site is hosted by the Carnegie Academy for Science Education of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a partner with AAAS and DCPS in DC ACTS (updated March 10, 2003)

DC ACTS Teachers OnLine

Before, during, and as a result of DC ACTS, secondary teachers in DC ACTS schools ave been contributing lessons to the Internet community that can be shared online.

Joanne Nelson, Ballou Senior High School
(these links are to pdf files, )

What You See Is Not Always What You Get! http://www.nsa.gov/programs/mepp/hs/alg39.pdf
Stop This Runaway Truck, Please! http://www.nsa.gov/programs/mepp/hs/geom11.pdf

Mary Miles, Deal Junior HS

Signals of Spring

Guy Brandenburg, Deal Junior HS

Math on the Mall, and Beyond (this is a pdf file 340 kb, 31 pages, )

Please contact Toby Horn to include YOUR contribution.

Thanks to Barry's ClipArt for the animation!