Welcome to Mission Academy High School

Mission Academy High School is one of two schools in the Mission Schools organization.

Mission Academy, now serving grades 9-12, is designed as a Theme for the Mind learning community that mirrors the challenge and opportunity in a highly competitive, rapidly changing global environment.

The goal for all of our students is to be well–educated citizens prepared in every way for entry into the careers of the future. They may choose to go right to work. They may find their passion lies with further education. Whatever that choice, we will work with them to see that it can happen.

To accomplish these value-added results, the curriculum and instructional plan are theme-centered, interdisciplinary, and project based. Group work crosses age, grade and achievement levels.

The instructional philosophy is learning through application. It is not our intent to lecture at out students. We give them what they need to apply their own creativity to a project. That requires some lecture, a little story-telling, useful tools such as the computer and the Internet, and a healthy dose of encouragement. It may surprise you when they produce mandalas, murals, even scientific storybooks for fifth-graders.

The Five Secrets to On-Time Assignments

1. Note down the date and time that the assignment is due as given my your teacher, not a fellow student. It will never work to say, "but Johnny told me it was due next week!"

2. If the assignment includes paper exercises, fold them in half and put them in your spiral Science Notebook.

3. Make a habit of asking yourself on Sunday of any week if assignments are due on Monday. Check for loose pages in your Science Notebook.

4. There are very few excuses outside of death or illness that merit consideration when an assignment date is missed.

5. If you are absent at the time an assignment is given it is your responsibility to ask the teacher for any work you may of missed.  It is not the responsibility of the teacher to seek out those students who may have been absent and give them the assignments.

Current Events

 

 

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Your On-line Textbook:
Holt Chemistry

Interesting Links

How Stuff Works: How Atoms Work

How DNA Evidence Works

Free At Last!

Mitochondrial DNA Analysis at the FBI Laboratory

Gas-liquid chromatography

What is Mass Spectrometry?

The Atomic Mass Unit

Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy

A History of Forensic Chemistry

A Forensic Nurse's Weblog

UV-Visible Spectroscopy

The Periodic Table

It's Elemental!

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Chemical & Engineering News

The Path to the Periodic Table

The Visual Elements of the Periodic Table

Dartmouth College Periodic Puzzle

40 Element Symbols

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We Are Looking For Volunteers

Parents and Guardians: You trust us with the education of your children. Can we call upon you to help us in that? We are always looking for adults who want to do more than drop their children off or check their homework. We are looking for anyone willing to provide a small amount of "sweat equity" in areas where you may be qualified. IT help, marketing assistance, coaching, carpentry, and many other skills are always needed. Make your child even prouder of their parent or guardian.

Call our school office and let us know you're out there!

Send us an e-mail.