Best Practices

An Exploration of a Multidimensional World This 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curriculum aligns to the California Integrated model in which earth and space science, life science, physical science and/or engineering are integrated within each curriculum unit.     All the units: are project-based include Instructionally embedded assessments align to the 5E instructional model (i.e.,…

Home learning activities that include options that depend on low or no technology that focus on students’ interests and the world around them. States and schools can provide learning menu activities as options for ways for students to continue learning at home with their families and peers. Find sample learning menus for PreK-HS here.  

Daily Dos are sensemaking tasks teachers and parents can use to engage their students in authentic, relevant science learning.  Students actively try to figure out how the world works (science) or how to design solutions to problems (engineering) using the science and engineering practices. Engaging in these practices requires that students be part of a learning…

Through an intense professional learning opportunity, 60 middle level teachers working in teams learned how to utilize Five Tools and Processes for Implementing AzSS.  Participants created a 3D unit blueprint (Tool 1) and developed multiple instructional sequences (Tool 4) that formed a 3D science instructional unit utilizing the 5E instructional model.  These draft units that are published are sample…