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Instructional Design
Will OpenSciEd prepare my students in a rigorous way for college and STEM careers?
Can the OpenSciEd high school courses be used for “honors” classes?
How Can Educators Use Open Educational Resources?
What Are Open Educational Resources?
How we Share our Instructional Materials
Are ELA and Math integrated into the OpenSciEd Units?
What type of assessments are available in an OpenSciEd unit?
How is Universal Design for Learning used in OpenSciEd Unit Development?
OpenSciEd Development
How iHub is Different from OpenSciEd?
Why was the initial focus on middle school?
What makes OpenSciEd unique?
What is OpenSciEd?
What if my district or state doesn’t want to become involved with OpenSciEd?
What does it mean that these units are licensed as CC-BY-4.0?
What criteria are used to deem science instructional materials as “high-quality”?
How are the units created?
Research
Scope & Sequence
Can the physics course be used for a ‘physics-first’ 9th grade course?
Are OpenSciEd Physics and OpenSciEd Chemistry algebra-based courses?
How did OpenSciEd determine the NGSS bundles for middle school?
Do the OpenSciEd instructional materials address individual needs of states?
Are all of the Middle School PEs addressed by this curriculum?
Have all 50 states adopted NGSS?