What happens when objects collide? In newly released, NGSS Design-badged unit, students figure it out.
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Free, high-quality unit on Chemical Reactions and Matter Transformations now available!
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8.1 Contact Forces
Why do things sometimes get damaged when they hit each other?
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COVID-19 & Health Equity, Grades K-2
What can we do to keep our community healthy?
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COVID-19 & Health Equity, High School Science
How can we slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus to protect our communities?*
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Instructional Materials
OpenSciEd instructional materials are robust, research-based, open-source science instructional materials designed to increase accessibility for all teachers and students.
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Professional Learning
To support key instructional shifts in the Next Generation Science Standards, we have developed professional learning materials to accompany the instructional materials.
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The Materials
The OpenSciEd materials include Teacher and Student materials for each instructional unit in addition to the corresponding professional learning materials designed to support the use of the units. Each unit fits within a Scope and Sequence that provides coherence within and across years.
Development Process
The OpenSciEd materials include Teacher and Student materials for each instructional unit in addition to the corresponding professional learning materials designed to support the use of the units. Each unit fits within a Scope and Sequence that provides coherence within and across years.
Professional Learning
The OpenSciEd materials include Teacher and Student materials for each instructional unit in addition to the corresponding professional learning materials designed to support the use of the units. Each unit fits within a Scope and Sequence that provides coherence within and across years.
What educators and students say
“What I learned from this curriculum - and what will ultimately make my teaching better - is that the kids really can guide where they are going. [They] will be more invested as a result, and they will really come to realize how science works.” - OpenSciEd Field Test Teacher
“To me, this is the true way science should be taught. It really...this is the way we would like to see all of our classrooms become.” - Mark Lester, Principal, West Feliciana Middle School, St. Francisville, Louisiana
"I felt like the students really took charge of the discussion, took charge of where we were going with learning. And it was awesome! And it still is awesome! I think it really is hitting the goals of NGSS, of having students engaged in scientific practices while learning about certain things." - OpenSciEd Field Test Teacher
"But like in this, we were the ones who came up with it. So we were able to understand... We have similar ideas or different ideas. So we were able to come up with this one model that we could ALL understand. Because WE came up with it." - OpenSciEd Middle School Student