9th Grade Teaching Fellows
This teaching fellow is from Boston and was a teaching fellow last year.
Who is Ms. Denezia?
The physical expression of a genotype.
What is phenotype?
A terrible accident that started a movement for worker's rights happened at this factory.
What is the Triangle Shirt Waist factory?
The university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
What is the University of Alabama?
Hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something.
What is optimism?
This teaching fellow used to live in Houston but moved to Wichita and now goes to college in Atlanta.
Who is Ms. Kayla?
The unit work is calculated in.
What is Joules?
This is when a community does not have access to fresh food.
What is a food desert?
Revenue - Expenses.
What is profit?
The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
What is resilence?
This teaching fellow is from Pakistan.
Who is Ms. Maheem?
The most common measurement for personal health.
What is BMI?
This is when you present the opposing side's point of view and then show why it is wrong.
What is a counterargument?
The most accurate representation of an ecosystem's predator, prey, and producer relationships.
The stress management technique where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
What is meditation?
This teaching fellow lived in Birmingham last summer but did not do Breakthrough last summer.
The name for when someone carries both the dominant and recessive allele.
What is heterozygous? (Heterozygote is also acceptable)
When you don't buy a product in protest.
The largest mountain in Japan.
What is Mount Fuji?
How to effectively and appropriately communicate and interact on the internet.
What is netiquette?
This teaching fellow invented the famous "This is How We Do It" opening to class.
Who is Ms. Naomi?
This is how many calories are in one gram of fat.
What is 9?
The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone.
What is self-actualization?
The ACT has this section and the SAT does not.
What is the science section?
The belief that intelligence is malleable, and that with increased effort, you can increase achievement.
What is a growth mindset?