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Hot Wheels® Speedometry™ encourages inquiry and real-world, problem-based learning through play, hands-on activities and in-depth lesson plans that is mapped to state and national standards including Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). This education curriculum, co-created with researchers at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, combines Hot Wheels® fun, imagination, and action, as well as toys and track to accelerate learning. Read More

Speedometry™ is a free-to-use curriculum targeting fourth grade (8-9 year old) students. Comprised of two units with up to six lessons per unit, Speedometry™ provides coursework intended to cover a period of 10-12 days. Students work in collaborative learning groups to deepen their understanding of speed, angles, slopes, collisions, kinetic energy, and potential energy. The lessons and activities aim to put students on course for success in science and mathematics. A kindergarten curriculum for 5-6 year olds is currently in development and will be released at a later date.

With support from the Mattel Children's Foundation, five faculty members began working with Hot Wheels® designers and (S)cience (T)echnology (E)ngineering (M)ath teachers in April 2013 to develop tools for teaching scientific concepts like velocity, kinetic energy and gravity using the miniature toy cars and modular track already beloved by children. USC Rossier education professors Gale Sinatra, Julie Marsh, Morgan Polikoff, Frederick Freking, and Angela Hasan led the project for a Speedometry™ curriculum for the elementary school students that will help teachers and parents reinforce key STEM concepts. The Speedometry™ curriculum is aligned with the rigorous expectations outlined in the CCSS, NGSS, as well as TEKS, and includes inquiry, play-based, and hands-on activities.

"With the need for more students in the STEM fields, teachers and parents need to find ways to make scientific topics engaging and accessible for students from an early age," said Rossier Dean Karen Symms Gallagher. "The Speedometry curriculum brings science to life for kids while also being grounded by the research and assessment of learning experts in the field of education." Read Less

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App for body systems, weather and machines

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‎Learn about collection For tiny scientists featuring Mammals by Tinybop, The Human Body by Tinybop, Weather by Tinybop and many more on App Store. Enjoy these apps on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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VIDEO: Claims, Evidence, & Reasoning: Planning
Teachers can use this strategy for their professional learning as well! In the following image, some teachers began using a KLEWS chart to document their own learning.

Learn: What Is Your Objective?

For every lesson we teach, we want our students to be able to tell us what it is that they're expected to learn and, following the lesson, what they've learned from the evidence observed. Students will use the data they collect through investigation, discussion, and research, and summarize their learning by making a claim. In fact, you might choose to guide your students with questions, who will then answer each question with an individual claim.
VIDEO: Claims, Evidence, & Reasoning: Lesson
In this lesson video, Kimber asks her students questions to help them clarify their thinking. This way they can summarize their learning by making a claim and connecting it to the evidence.

Evidence: What Do You Observe?

Our students are asked for evidence now in all they do, whether it's math, reading, social studies, or science. Maria and Kimber asked students many times what was the evidence that substantiated the claim that seeds do not need sunlight for germination and their students were able to meet the challenge.

As students collect data in your classroom, they'll be able to answer your questions by substantiating their claims with evidence as well. Returning to our Fuzzy Face example, What evidence do we have that magnets do not have to be in contact with a material to move it?

We know that magnets don't have to touch the materials to move them because we were able to move the iron filings by dragging the wand over the plastic.

- How might students document their evidence?

- What about a photograph of Fuzzy Face?

- What are some other ways students might document this evidence?

Wonder: What Are Your Questions?

Regardless of the disciplinary core idea you're teaching, you can implement the science and engineering practice of asking questions. Wondering provides your students with the chance to ask scientific questions. And it doesn't matter where students are in their learning - questions have value at every stage of a unit.

A follow-up activity to simply asking questions might be sorting and classifying those questions into lists of the scientific (investigable) and non-scientific (non-investigable).

And don't forget - the teacher's questions matter too! Kimber helped Maria consider the effectiveness of her essential question when she asked her, " What investigation are you planning on doing with your students?" Maria was able to refine her question to make it manageable and more understandable for third graders. After talking with Kimber, Maria revised the original question, " What do seeds need to germinate and thrive?" to " What do seeds need to germinate? "

Science: What Terms, Principles, or Research Help You To Explain?

I really loved the way the word germination was defined in this video series. Gone is the time when students are handed a vocabulary list and asked to find and write down their definitions. Students need "just in time" words to use after they've had multiple experiences with the concept, so the word now makes sense to students and they can use it as part of their scientific explanations. Have your students come up with their own definition based on the evidence from their investigation and then give them time to talk with one another, argue with evidence, and eventually come to a consensus as a group. Finally, have one of your students add their class definition to the master KLEWS chart.

How Might Teachers In Other Disciplines Use the KLEWS to Learning in Their Classrooms?

It's easy to see the KLEWS strategy as transferable to other disciplines. In most subjects, we ask our students to support their thinking with evidence. If you look at the practices of mathematics, science, and English language arts, there is clear overlap as seen below:
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Similar connections can be made across all the domains of social studies. And I've even witnessed a kindergarten teacher using the KLEWS strategy as a tool for community building.

No matter the discipline - since the KLEWS chart is a tool for sensemaking - it makes the thinking of children visible. Students must feel so valued when they see their words on the wall as part of their instruction.

As I've been working with Teaching Channel on NGSS videos, I felt it was important to capture the process of what it's been like for one teacher in our UA elementary program learning about KLEWS for the first time.

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KLEWS: Supporting Claims, Evidence & Reasoning

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Thank you for being a big part of this community. To better support the initiatives around open educational resources in the state of Michigan, all resources on the Michigan Virtual Learning Object Repository (LOR) are being moved to #GoOpen Michigan(link is external) on September 30th, 2018. During the transition, our LOR will be moved to an archived state, not allowing new user registration or new content to be added. An email with more details was sent to registered users of the LOR in September. To make use of the great resources on the platform, we encourage you to create an account and add your own new resources to the #GoOpen Michigan platform(link is external).

Phenomenal Science is a regional collaboration between the Science, Mathematics, Technology center at CMU and the Great Lakes Bay ISDs to develop K-5 Science Units through professional learning.

The units will:

Include a complete curriculum for K-5 three-dimensional science instruction

Meet the Michigan Science Standards

Be free to all educators

Integrate science and engineering practices, and English Language Arts and Mathematics

Phenomenal Science is sponsored by Michigan Virtual University®, Michigan STEM Partnership and is supported by the Great Lakes Bay ISDs.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Great Science Books!

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"The only true failure can come if you quit."
--Rosie Revere

Awards & Recognition for Rosie Revere, Engineer:

Rosie Revere in the News

Rosie Revere, Engineer

by Andrea Beaty
illustrated by David Roberts
Abrams Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-1419708459

A beautifully-illustrated tale of a girl and her dream to become a great engineer.

Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats. Rosie's gizmos would astound-if she ever let anyone see them.

Afraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose, who shows her that a first flop isn't something to fear-it's something to celebrate.

Engineering a Cheese Hat: Part 1

Pettee Guerrero at NIU STEM Outreach leads a team of engineers in the process of developing a hat to repel pythons!

Engineering a Cheese Hat: Part 2

Will Rosie's cheese hat keep snakes away? Ask a scientist:

Over 3 years on New York Times

Best Sellers List!!!

When Iggy Peck fan
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Teaching Next Generation Science Standards in Elementary School—Second Grade

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Classroom Magazine

explorer and Young Explorer

Explorer magazine inspires young readers through authentic and engaging nonfiction content. Supporting national reading and science standards, this K-5/6 classroom resource is available in print and/or digital subscriptions with seven issues arriving throughout the school year.

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Educational games and videos from Curious George, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!

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A collaboration with Patrick Brown, this new book links formative assessment probes to an Explore-Before-Explain instructional sequence for K-5 classrooms. Eleven model lessons illustrate how a probe is used to launch students into an investigation to figure out the phenomenon and use their evolving science concepts and ideas to construct an explanation. Stay tuned for the 6-8 version coming next year! The book is available through NSTA Press or Amazon.

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Teachers love using picture books to teach science!

Introducing Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons!

Students love learning through inquiry!

Teachers rave about Picture-Perfect Science Workshops!

Teachers love Picture-Perfect Science workshops!

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Teachers love using picture books to teach science!

Introducing Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons!

Students love learning through inquiry!

Teachers rave about Picture-Perfect Science Workshops!

Teachers love Picture-Perfect Science workshops!

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Teachers love using picture books to teach science! Introducing Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons! Students love learning through inquiry! Teachers rave about Picture-Perfect Science Workshops! Teachers love Picture-Perfect Science workshops!

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Check out the guidance for the steps to designing a coherent NGSS aligned storyline. Explore unpacking, identifying phenomena, and sequencing investigations to help students build science ideas, step by step.

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Curriculum Programs

Aligned to Your State Standards

Engaging for students, easy for teachers, and affordable for schools, STEMscopes State Edition is rooted in the scientifically proven 5E model with acceleration and intervention.

Unravel the standards into digestible modules for your K-12 students. From hands-on, inquiry-based investigations to rigorous CER assessments, STEMscopes NGSS takes the guesswork out of teaching the NGSS.

Start Growing Young Minds

Thoughtfully designed by PreK teachers with the busy PreK teacher in mind, Early Explorer was built from the ground up to Head Start and state guidelines to prepare PreK students for science in Kindergarten.

Free Resources

Scientific Discourse and Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

The ability to read, interpret, and communicate information in the science classroom is a 21st century NGSS skill embedded in the STEMscopes curriculum. We believe that teachers have the power to guide students in rich scientific discourse through modeling, questioning, and feedback, while probing for deeper responses that help students explore their ideas more thoroughly.

Summer STEM Activity Pack

Summer slide can impact all students. By keeping them engaged on science topics over summer, students can be better prepared for the next grade while exploring fascinating phenomena.

NGSS 3D Scope Alignment Map

STEMscopes NGSS 3D is an award-winning, phenomena-based program that empowers your teaching of the Next Generation Science Standards. Navigating STEMscopes NGSS 3D is a breeze thanks to our scope alignment map that details how we built our 5E-based curriculum to the NGSS.

Using NGSS's "Lessons Learned from the NGSS Early Implementer Districts: Instructional Materials" document, we have created a rubric to assess the 18 Criteria of Instructional Materials necessary to properly align with the NGSS.

Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) Infographic

The CER process guides students to develop a deeper explanation than they would ordinarily provide. And teachers, when observing their students, can understand a student's grasp of scientific concepts, their ability to use appropriate and relevant evidence, and the thought process they used to justify how their evidence supports their claim.

12 STEM Elementary School Tips Infographic

Incorporating STEM in the elementary classroom can be challenging, but the benefits of starting STEM early cannot be understated. Whether you are a new or veteran teacher, the 12 STEM best practices presented in this infographic will help you empower STEM learning in your classroom.

Research

Why Does Good Curriculum Matter?

STEM careers are on the rise- today's STEM students are tomorrow's STEM leaders.

STEMscopes curriculum products are engaging for students and easy for teachers to use, but more importantly, they are highly effective. Students using STEMscopes on average outscore their peers who do not use STEMscopes based in numerous case studies conducted by Rice University.

Regardless of English proficiency, economic status, or geographic location, STEMscopes positively impacts diverse student populations.

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The Leader in STEM Education | STEMscopes

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Aligned to Your State Standards Engaging for students, easy for teachers, and affordable for schools, STEMscopes State Edition is rooted in the scientifically proven 5E model with acceleration and intervention. Unravel the standards into digestible modules for your K-12 students. From hands-on, inquiry-based investigations to rigorous CER assessments, STEMscopes NGSS takes the guesswork out of teaching the NGSS.

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Improving Science Education Through Three-Dimensional Learning

Quick Search Next Generation Science Standards

THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE LEARNING

Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science. These dimensions are combined to form each standard-or performance expectation-and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.

Crosscutting Concepts help students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design.

When these concepts, such as "cause and effect", are made explicit for students, they can help students develop a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world around them.

Science and Engineering Practices describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by "inquiry" in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) are the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines. These core ideas build on each other as students progress through grade levels and are grouped into the following four domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering.

More about 3D Learning

GET TO KNOW

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K-12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The NGSS were developed by states to improve science education for all students.

A goal for developing the NGSS was to create a set of research-based, up-to-date K-12 science standards. These standards give local educators the flexibility to design classroom learning experiences that stimulate students' interests in science and prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship.

Get to Know the Standards

IMPLEMENT

The NGSS call for a three-dimensional approach to K-12 science instruction. This represents a significant transition from previous state standards. That's why effective implementation demands a great deal of collaboration and patience among states, districts, schools, teachers, and students.

Thoughtful and coordinated approaches to implementation will enable educators to inspire future generations of scientifically literate students. That is the vision of the NGSS. This website provides a range of high-quality resources that empower educators, administrators, parents, and the general public to help bring this vision to life.

Find Tools and Resources

WHY

Science-and therefore science education-is central to the lives of all Americans.

A high-quality science education means that students will develop an in-depth understanding of content and develop key skills-communication, collaboration, inquiry, problem solving, and flexibility-that will serve them throughout their educational and professional lives.

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Hi there. We're ExploreLearning!

We're an education technology company creating seriously fun solutions for the most critical challenges in K-12 STEM learning.

What's this serious fun business all about? Tell me more...

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Empowering educators to prepare students for success in a rapidly changing world

Tomorrow's Teaching, Today

Today's students must be prepared for a future that we can barely imagine. To make the leap, education must change, and teachers are on the front lines of this shift.

We work with educators and instructional leaders to encourage growth, risk-taking, and reflection in their own practice, so that they can, in turn, use high-impact instructional strategies to develop the next generation of resourceful, compassionate, and resilient learners ready to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Growth Mindset

Creative Problem Solving

Cultural Competence

Professional Development, Tailored to Meet Your Needs.

We provide personalized, job-embedded, and ongoing support for educators so that they can create classrooms where students drive their own learning, exercise choice and ownership, and develop the personal agency they need to succeed. We share research-based, time-tested instructional strategies and leverage technology to help teachers and coaches communicate, set goals, and track their progress. From beginning to end, we work with our partners to identify district needs, craft custom solutions that meet their unique goals and budgets, and gain insight into their teachers' growth. BetterLesson provides the sustainable, learn-by-doing support educators and leaders need to prepare students for tomorrow.

A National Presence

Trusted by thousands of teachers and hundreds of schools, districts, and organizations in over 40 states, BetterLesson Professional Learning is action-oriented, evidence-based, collaborative, and tailored to the needs of individual teachers and the students in their classrooms.

Testimonials

Through participating with BetterLesson Coaching over the past three years, I have grown so much as an educator in ways that I never thought possible. This took teaching to new levels and PD was targeted specifically to areas that I needed, wanted to work on.

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Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Game-changing
Integrated STEM

The Future Workforce
Drones. Autonomous cars. Robots. Apps that monitor and improve our lives. Science and engineering are advancing at staggering speeds and changing the way we think, work, communicate and interact. The pace of innovation is so rapid that new technologies of today may be obsolete in just a few years. In fact, experts predict that 65 percent of the jobs that today's K-6 children will hold haven't even been invented yet.

Together, we will:

Deliver better outcomes for all learners in STEM fields

Empower educators and the community to build a foundation for engineering and computer science discovery and achievement

Keep pace with the changing speed of technology

Encourage and motivate children and parents to engage new technologies and support them as they do

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The Future Workforce Drones. Autonomous cars. Robots. Apps that monitor and improve our lives. Science and engineering are advancing at staggering speeds and changing the way we think, work, communicate and interact. The pace of innovation is so rapid that new technologies of today may be obsolete in just a few years.

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Physical Science

Earth Science

Life Science

Scientific Reasoning
& technology

5-6

Levers and Pulleys
Mixtures and Solutions

Solar Energy
Landforms
Water Planet*

Food and Nutrition
Environments
Living Systems*

Models and Designs
Variables

3-4

Magnetism and Electricity
Physics of Sound
Matter and Energy*

Water
Earth Materials
Sun, Moon, and Stars*

Human Body
Structures of Life

Ideas and Inventions
Measurement

1-2

Solids and Liquids
Balance and Motion

Air and Weather
Pebbles, Sand, and Silt

New Plants
Insects
Insects and Plants*
Plants and Animals*

*Alternative Module -FOSS is providing more options to align with more state standards.

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Grade Physical Science Earth Science Life Science Scientific Reasoning & technology 5-6 Levers and Pulleys Mixtures and Solutions Solar Energy Landforms Water Planet* Food and Nutrition Environments Living Systems* Models and Designs Variables 3-4 Magnetism and Electricity Physics of Sound Matter and Energy* Water Earth Materials Sun, Moon, and Stars* Human Body Structures of Life Ideas and Inventions Measurement 1-2 Solids and Liquids Balance and Motion Air and Weather Pebbles, Sand, and Silt New Plants Insects Insects and Plants* Plants and Animals* *Alternative Module -FOSS is providing more options to align with more state standards.

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A new phenomena-based curriculum for grades K-8

Amplify Science blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.

Amplify Science for middle school has recently been rated all-green by EdReports. See sample units from the program.

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Grounded in research and proven effective

UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, the authors behind Amplify Science, developed the Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize approach, and gold standard research shows that it works. Our own efficacy research is pretty exciting, too. See more of our research.

What educators say

"Just looking through the Amplify Science curriculum, I'm wishing I could go back in time and learn these concepts with these resources! I love that Amplify is more focused on diving deeper into fewer concepts over the year, rather than grazing the surface of more topics."

Lizzie Middle school teacher, KIPP charter network

What educators say

"In using this program, I have seen that my students are completely engaged and are able to visualize models of concepts using the simulations that they otherwise would not be able to visualize. The program is not about rote memory of facts-rather, it addresses the bigger picture and assesses a deeper understanding of science concepts."

Julie Science teacher, Georgia

What educators say

"The engineering units are engaging and really helped me better understand the new standards. I love being able to walk around and talk to students as they explore solutions, make claims, and reason with their peers."

Karla Science teacher, California

Amplify Science was developed by the science education experts at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science and the digital learning team at Amplify. As the Hall's first curriculum designed to address the new science standards, Amplify Science reflects state-of-the-art practices in science teaching and learning.

Rooted in research

Amplify Science is rooted in the Lawrence Hall of Science's Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize model of learning. This research-based approach presents students with multiple modalities through which to explore the curriculum.

A flexible, blended program

Amplify Science includes hands-on activities, print materials, and powerful digital tools to support online and offline teaching and learning. Highly adaptable and user-friendly, the program gives schools and individual teachers flexibility based on their technology resources and preferences.

Students take on the roles of scientists and engineers

In each unit, students take on the role of a scientist or engineer to investigate a real-world problem. These problems provide relevant contexts through which students investigate phenomena.

Check out our free series of science webinars!

Our partners from UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science dive deep on relevant topics in science education.

Student Books

Age-appropriate Student Books allow students to:

engage with content-rich texts

obtain evidence

develop research and close-reading skills

construct arguments and explanations

Student Investigation Notebooks

Available for every unit, the Student Investigation Notebooks provide space for students to:

record data

reflect on ideas from texts and investigations

construct explanations and arguments

Student Investigation Notebooks

Available for every unit, the Student Investigation Notebooks provide space for students to:

record data

reflect on ideas from texts and investigations

construct explanations and arguments

Available with full-color article compilations for middle school units

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