The calendar below shows the professional learning events hosted by OpenSciEd and our Certified Professional Learning partners.
Are you looking an opportunity to share ideas and questions with other OpenSciEd teachers? Would you like more support for your implementation? Each HS PLC meeting is course specific and is focused on Teachers' Questions and Answers and includes discussions of a different OpenSciEd practice. Cost-effective high-quality PL centered on teachers' successes and challenges implementing […]
The Framework and NGSS called for phenomena-based 3D learning experiences for all students. Unpack WHY this is so important and HOW to make it a reality in your classroom. Take […]
NEW DATE - OCTOBER 5th Unit author Nicole Vick from Northwestern University will share the unit storyline and features in this free webinar. During this webinar participants will experience the […]
Join us for an immersive 4-day professional learning experience for middle school science educators and facilitators. You will leave with everything you need to start implementing the OpenSciEd Curriculum in your classroom and how to facilitate professional learning for other educators! Teacher Cost $300 Facilitator Cost $450 October 19, 20, 26, and 27, 2023 8:00-3:00 […]
This PLI will simultaneously prepare you to teach the first unit in the OpenSciEd middle school program and provide the support you need to advance your practice so that learning is both driven by student questions and leads to the foundational science learning they need to be successful. TAKEAWAYS: How OpenSciEd's free and publicly available […]
Join us to learn how OpenSciEd materials can help you build science learning experiences anchored in compelling phenomena and meaningful community and global problems. This PLI will introduce you to the first unit in the OpenSciEd High School physics course. You will experience firsthand how the unit is driven by student questions, you will put […]
The Framework and NGSS called for phenomena-based 3D learning experiences for all students. Unpack WHY this is so important and HOW to make it a reality in your classroom. Take away phenomena and storylines to try in your classroom and strategies for making every student look forward to your class! TAKEAWAYS: The shift to phenomena-based […]
Join us to see how OpenSciEd’s materials can help build science learning experiences anchored in compelling phenomena and in important community and global problems. OpenSciEd high school uses a storyline approach that emphasizes coherence from the student perspective. Participants will explore the curricular routines, discourse strategies, and comprehensive assessment systems that support equitable participation. TAKEAWAYS: […]
This unit helps students develop an understanding of the elements of evolution by natural selection and learn to apply that understanding to protect populations endangered by urbanization. Students learn through modeling, reading, and discussing adaptations of published scientific studies of nonhuman populations impacted by urbanization. They develop criteria for designing urban systems that protect populations […]
This session will outline work that Saint Paul Public Schools, BSCS Science Learning, and OpenSciEd have done to adapt OpenSciEd materials to support standards implementation and district equity goals. The session will explain key considerations and modifications needed to align materials with domain-specific standards, while maintaining curricular coherence from the students’ perspective. The team will […]
OpenSciEd HS’s reversible reactions unit on ocean chemistry has three unique foci: 1) engineering, 2) math with scale, proportion, and quantity, and 3) relevance to students. Students use stoichiometry and acid-base reactions to make sense and design solutions to prevent oyster die off. TAKEAWAYS: This unit supports students as they figure out understandings of reversible reactions […]
Discussion is how a classroom community makes sense of what it is investigating. But for that to happen, students need to actually be talking. Learn strategies for planning discussions, ensuring equitable access, and teacher moves to guide the conversation. It's time to get your students talking! TAKEAWAYS: Discussion is the way that a classroom community […]
