OpenSciEd Middle School science program addresses all middle school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.
This curriculum unit for grades 6-8 integrates population biology and mathematics. The ill-structured problem puts students in the stakeholder role of assistant to the mayor of a small town in which residents are demanding that something be done about the deer that are eating their landscaped plants. Throughout the unit, students deal with physical models, conceptual models, and mathematical models as they tackle the deer problem and the complication of Lyme Disease.
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The OpenSciEd elementary science program aligns with all NGSS standards for elementary education.
A Step-by-Step Guide to School Turnaround describes how to turn around a failing school. The authors have had remarkable success in turning around numerous low performing schools, and they use their extensive knowledge of "what works" to lay out clear expectations for instruction, assessment, data collection analysis, and provision of additional support for struggling students. Using their easy-to-implement Six Step Process for Increasing Reading and Math Performance, educators will have the resource needed to structure the school turnaround process to signifi