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.
For grades 4-5, this unit explores that change affects people and their relationships as well as the world around them. The literature selections of the unit illustrate this theme for students. Unit activities engage students in discussion and writing about what they have read and in independent and group learning opportunities that promote skill development in vocabulary, grammar, persuasive writing, literary analysis, oral communication, and thinking. Students also engage in research on current issues and report findings in written and oral form.
Magic and adventure encompass every page of this popular children’s book series. Harry Potter has a miserable childhood living with the Dursley family. His room is a tiny closet under the stairs. But one day, mysterious letters begin arriving. Harry Potter is destined to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to study magic. In this first novel of the hit series, Harry Potter begins his studies at Hogwarts, where he will spend the next seven years of his life studying to become a wizard. He learns that he is the only person to survive a deadly spell cast by Lord Voldemort,