9th Grade Teaching Fellows
STEM
Humanities
Exploratory
Advisory
100

This teaching fellow is from Boston and was a teaching fellow last year.

Who is Ms. Denezia?

100

The physical expression of a genotype.

What is phenotype?

100

A terrible accident that started a movement for worker's rights happened at this factory.

What is the Triangle Shirt Waist factory? 

100

The university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

What is the University of Alabama?

100

Hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something.

What is optimism?

200

This teaching fellow used to live in Houston but moved to Wichita and now goes to college in Atlanta.

Who is Ms. Kayla?

200

The unit work is calculated in.

What is Joules?

200

This is when a community does not have access to fresh food.

What is a food desert?

200

Revenue - Expenses.

What is profit?

200

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

What is resilence?

300

This teaching fellow is from Pakistan.

Who is Ms. Maheem?

300

The most common measurement for personal health.

What is BMI?

300

This is when you present the opposing side's point of view and then show why it is wrong.

What is a counterargument? 

300

The most accurate representation of an ecosystem's predator, prey, and producer relationships. 

What is a food web?
300

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?

400

This teaching fellow lived in Birmingham last summer but did not do Breakthrough last summer.

Who is Mr. Nick?
400

The name for when someone carries both the dominant and recessive allele.

What is heterozygous? (Heterozygote is also acceptable)

400

When you don't buy a product in protest.

What is a boycott?
400

The largest mountain in Japan.

What is Mount Fuji?

400

How to effectively and appropriately communicate and interact on the internet.

What is netiquette?

500

This teaching fellow invented the famous "This is How We Do It" opening to class.

Who is Ms. Naomi?

500

This is how many calories are in one gram of fat.

What is 9?

500

The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone.

What is self-actualization?

500

The ACT has this section and the SAT does not.

What is the science section?

500

The belief that intelligence is malleable, and that with increased effort, you can increase achievement.

What is a growth mindset?