TEACHER EDITION
Supportive Guidance for Activities
- The stage of the instructional model
- Outcomes and Indicators of Success
- Opportunity for Assessment
- Advance Preparation
- Materials (for a class of 30)
- Strategies
- Getting Started
- Process and Procedure
- Wrap Up
- Looking Ahead
- Further Opportunities for Learning
TEACHER RESOURCE CD-ROM
Implementation and Activities
- aspects of the adoption process
- valuable information about the successful implementation of the program
- extension activities
- all of the blackline masters for the program
Comprehensive Assessment
- assessment strategies
- test questions
- suggested scoring criteria
- point scales for a variety of assessment techniques
Research Base
- Correlation with the national standards
- cooperative learning
- learning styles and multiple intelligences
- assessment
- concept mapping
Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies
BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies) Science Learning is a nonprofit organization committed to transforming science education so that all students have an opportunity to learn science in their daily lives and careers. For over 60 years, BSCS Science Learning has filled classrooms around the country with research-driven textbooks, pioneered effective teaching approaches, developed new education leaders, and conducted studies that will continue to alter the course of our science education system. Most importantly, they have championed the cause for meaningful, inquiry-based science learning.