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 April 4, 2003)

Environmental Sciences Projects Close to Home

A science project opens the gates between school science subjects and between science and mathematics.

An environmental study of the school grounds, neighborhood and local stream provides numerous opportunities:

for different grade levels to interact.
to conduct a thorough study of the run behind the school.
to apply basic knowledge learned in classes to the world outside.
to learn about the neighborhood and about sceicne and mathematics in meaningful ways.
to connect inside lab work with outside field work.
for teachers and students to learn together.

General Sites

Pathfinder Science, a great resource of online projects performed by students all over the world
A Water Lesson Plan for PR Harris
History of DC Parks
Superfund Index

DCPS Texts
Earth Science	Life Science	Physical Science	Environmental Science	Advanced Placement Environmental Science

	Stream Monitoring --- DC Ecology from the EPA
	Brandwein Institute
	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Dr. Kenneth Olden has been Institute Director for many years. Olden's biography. DC Department of Environmental Health
	Norwalk River students found ...
	Birds of Oxon Run parkway (including Camp Simms)
	EPA List of impaired waterways (including Oxon Run Creek)
	Map of Oxon Run (GIS map so clicking on a link will bring up additional maps) --- Clean-up project --- and here for census map
	Meta Data for Oxon Run (behind Hart Middle School)----- outdated data for comparison ----- explanation of metadata codes Data for Soapstone Creek (behind Wilson SHS) map index --- hiking map --- in the planning eye of the DC government --- archaeology --- zoning commission case --- clean-up (scroll to caring for trees in 2003)
	DC Environmental Network --- Water Quality Standards

Hart Measurement Workshop Session I

http://as1.ipfw.edu/99tohe/presentations/geffen2.htm