The OpenSciEd Taster introduces the OpenSciEd curriculum, communicates the importance of professional learning, and promotes continued engagement with the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance around OpenSciEd adoption and implementation. Included in this session are opportunities for educators to explore: -Key features of the OpenSciEd curriculum -Sample lessons and student artifacts -Components of an OpenSciEd unit […]
OpenSciEd Facilitator Next Level is designed for facilitators who have already attended the OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch for Facilitators and are ready to take their facilitation to the next level. We’ll build on what you learned in the Launch by digging into the five additional 2-day unit-launch professional learning modules that support impactful implementation of OpenSciEd’s […]
OEI has planned an engaging 4-day Curriculum Launch PD : Light & Matter, Contact Forces, Chem Reactions & Matter (Cohort 2) August 8-11, 2022 at Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place, Springfield, MA. Please note this is a 4 day event! August 8th 8 am - 4 pm, with reception and dinner following August 9th 8 am-4 […]
OpenSciEd is partnering with edsUP to deliver our four-day Curriculum Launch professional learning in a series of synchronous and asynchronous learning sessions, marrying the best of a competency-based approach with adaptive learning content together with expert support from OpenSciEd. This is a pilot of this new Curriculum Launch format and is offered at a discounted […]
Using OpenSciEd’s instructional materials (or considering it)? This is your chance to get professional learning to help you make OpenSciEd come alive in your classroom! The OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch immerses you in teaching and learning driven by students making sense of phenomena and developing solutions to problems. You will walk away from these four days […]
If you are new to the OpenSciEd materials, this webinar will help you get off on the right foot. We will talk through the website, the many ways to download and access the materials, and where to find everything you need to use the units. Included in this time will be an overview of the […]
OpenSciEd materials rely on students collectively figuring out science ideas together through productive discourse and classroom talk. This requires a classroom culture where all students feel like they belong and it is safe to participate, share their ideas, disagree, and productively struggle together. Classrooms are learning spaces in which students’ varied cultural and linguistic experiences […]
Science notebooks are a key component of the OpenSciEd middle school science program. Notebooks provide a space for students to record investigations and communicate their ideas about phenomena. They are also a record of how students’ ideas evolve over time. Developing a science notebook can create a sense of ownership from students with respect to […]
In the OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch - Facilitators Edition you will experience the entire OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch in a virtual format in much the same way that your future participants will, but you are also supported to deeply understand the goals and structures of the professional learning so you are prepared to facilitate this yourself. When […]