Project Director

Russell G. Wright, Ed.D.
President, Event-Based Science Institute, Rockville, MD

Project Advisory Committee

Bill Barnes
New Town High School, Owings Mill, MD

Jennifer Barrett
The Harbour School, Annapolis, MD

Laurie Bricker
Sligo Middle School, Silver Spring, MD

Barbara Dietsch
Cabin John Middle School, Potomac, MD

Scott Durbin
Robert Frost Middle School, Rockville, MD

Nancy Ehrlich
Cabin John Middle School, Potomac, MD

Susan Fazio
Tilden Middle School, North Bethesda, MD

Marco Fuggitti
Ridgeview Middle School, Rockville, MD

Ken Halperin
Silver Spring, MD

George T. Martin
T. W. Pyle Middle School, Bethesda, MD

Edward C. Nolan
Julius West Middle School, Rockville, MD

EllaJay Parfitt
Southeast Middle School, Baltimore, MD

Elizabeth Raabe
Eastern Middle School, Silver Spring, MD

Michelle Smetanick
Baker Middle School, Damascus, MD

Christopher Yancone
Severn, MD

Event-Based Science Home Page

The activities available here were designed for use in middle school science and mathematics classes. They were tested by students in grades 6 to 8 and all have a reading level from 7.7 or below.

Biology Activities	Math Activities	Physics Activities
Heart Rate	Base Running	Altitude Ball
Reaction Time	Baseball Cards	Bat Materials
Muscle Fatigue	Designing Replica Ballparks	Too Cold to Play Baseball
Eating for Success	Home Run Distance	Batting Slump
Can You Take the Heat?	Time to Celebrate	The Home Run Pitch

An activity in the context of something real gives students a reason to learn. And authentic activities work!

They engage students for three reasons:

Rickey Henderson  - USA Today

CONTEXT - A real-world context makes learning meaningful. PURPOSE - An authentic activity gives students a reason to learn and use concepts and skills. DIFFERENTIATION - Authentic activities demonstrate how people with different skills, interests and jobs can all use and apply the things we are learning in school. In the classroom this means role playing, and role playing means natural differentiation.

Each activity comes in an online Student Version and an PDF Teacher Version. Make a copy of the Student Version for each student to use. You may want to make just enough copies for one class and place them in sheet protectors to preserve them.

The Teacher Version (emailed free to teachers) provides instructions on conducting each activity as well as references to the National Standards covered by the activity.

Activities are also accompanied by online readings that are linked to the activities. These readings come in two forms:

Fundamentals - a brief discussion of the concepts (science or mathematics) dealt with in the activity. The Teachers Version will tell you how many copies you will need to make.

Skills - a brief discussion of techniques and skills needed to conduct the experiment. The Teachers Version will tell you how many copies you will need to make.

Some activities are also provided with resources and forms. Resources are charts and tables that contain additional information for students to use as they complete the activities. The Teachers Version will tell you how many copies you will need to make.

If an activity has a Form, you should print a copy of it for each student.

The Total Engagement Learning System was developed by Dr. Russell G. Wright, President,
Event-Based Science Institute, Inc., 6609 Paxton Road, Rockville, MD. 20852.

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Teachers participating in the development and testing of these activities are employees of various Maryland school districts and a Maryland private school: Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore County Public Schools, Montgomery County Public Schools, and The Harbour School (Annapolis, MD) .

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