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OpenSciEd creates free, high quality, NGSS-aligned science materials and professional learning support that empowers educators to inspire all students with the beauty and wonder of science. One classroom at a time, OpenSciEd is proving that when given the opportunity to experience high quality curriculum facilitated by teachers who have had the professional learning they deserve, all students can excel in science.
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About OpenSciEd
Latest Units
Unit Overview
6.6 Cells & Systems
How do living things heal?
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Unit Overview
7.6 Earth’s Resources & Human Impact
How do changes in the Earth's system impact our communities and what can we do about it?
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Unit Overview
8.6 Natural Selection & Common Ancestry
How could things living today be connected to the things that lived long ago?
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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. Also known as open educational resources, our open-source materials are free for all educators and students to use, customize, and share.
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Professional Learning Services
We support teachers to make science learning real and relevant for all students. We provide professional learning services that fit your unique needs.
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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
Each OpenSciEd unit undergoes an 18-month development process that includes external reviews, a robust field test, and revision. After the materials are evaluated by NextGenScience’s EQuIP Peer Review Panel and have received a quality rating, we make the units freely available.
Professional Learning Materials
We have developed free professional learning materials for teachers using the units in their classrooms and facilitators leading professional development. Materials for teachers and facilitators include agendas, slides, videos, handouts and other resources needed to teach or lead professional development.
What educators and students say
“My students have begun to realize that they have the power and knowledge to plan and investigate how the world works around them.” - Kym Whitney, 7th grade science teacher, Plymouth South Middle School - Plymouth
“In elementary science, we just listened to the teacher talk but here in 6th grade science, using OpenSciEd, we get to investigate things and figure it out ourselves through tests and experiments.” - Middle School Student, Louisville Middle School
“OpenSciEd changed the way I teach. I am better at leading students to ideas and letting them discover the concepts on their own.” - Celina Register, Intervention Resource Teacher and science teacher, Cajon Park at Santee School District
“Since introducing OpenSciEd to my classroom, all of my students have expanded their skill sets. I have seen students develop collaboration skills, organization skills, modeling skills, asking question skills, creating data tables, reading graphs, and public speaking skills.” - Korri Ward, Life Science Teacher, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy and Comparative too., Wells Combined School, Elko County School District
“With so many grade levels, planning can be time-consuming. OpenSciEd lessons are a lifesaver. They are standards-based, easy to implement, and best of all my kids LOVE them!” - Taylor Halliday, Gifted Intervention Specialist, South Science Technology Magnet - Lima City Schools - Lima, Ohio