Marty Just mark up the lesson (there's plenty of white space) and send it to me. I am asking a couple of the TI teachers from this summers session to do the same. When combined with the actual class room experience using it and the instructors comments we will merge them all in final edit. We will have the benefit of lots of smart people in creating this. And of course when it's on line we can continuously update and revise to keep it current and fresh. Thanks for any comments. Tom Sent from my iPhone On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:12 PM, Woll, Marty, N6VI <n6vi@socal.rr.com<mailto:n6vi@socal.rr.com>> wrote: Hi, Tom. The lesson looks fine, but I wonder about the choice of a fox hunt as an enrichment activity for this particular lesson in that it has no apparent relationship to the lesson being taught. I’m sure it’s fun, but there may be another lesson to which it would be more applicable. It might be more instructive to let the students build larger arrays of lights in series and parallel to see what happens and perhaps do some measurements to help them see why it’s happening that way. 73, Marty N6VI p.s. With the proliferation of LEDs and the diminished presence of incandescent bulbs, it might be helpful to describe these bulbs as a kind of “indicating resistor”. From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Gallagher, Tom, NY2RF Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 2:27 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:25554] Middle School Curriculum UPDATE TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS: NEW EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM In order to meet requirements for a grant proposal from Maxim Society member Craig Goldman W2LZQ, to meet the needs the Teachers’ Institute, and those of the Grace Academy commitment, I commissioned the creation of a middle school curriculum on basic electronics oriented to Amateur Radio. The task was assigned to former ARRL staffer and current STEM instructor, Nathan McCray. The project was commenced on 08/01/16 and is scheduled for completion by 9/01/16. Today, the first third of the curriculum was delivered to ARRL HQ on schedule. It is the initial portion of a 16-week course. The material is still flat file, printed workbooks, but the content and visuals will eventually be recreated online using animation and video/audio collateral materials. After completing proof of performance in the classroom, the education department can proceed to a more robust presentation format. In order to save costs and editing time, much of the visual material in the lessons has been constructed from elements of the ARRL publication, Understanding Basic Electronics. A sample lesson (unedited) is attached: “Series/Parallel Circuits.” This material will be available for next summer’s Teachers Institute participants to take back with them for classroom use. Note that none of this material covers licensing topics in order NOT to compete with ARRL’s very successful series of licensing manuals. I am grateful to Craig Goldman and also to Directors Woolweaver and Lisenco for being the burr under the saddle on this project. Gallagher Tom Gallagher – NY2RF Chief Executive Officer ARRL Headquarters ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™ 860 594 0404 cell 704 907 7158 tgallagher@arrl.org<mailto:tgallagher@arrl.org>