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Educator Resource Center


Welcome to the Educator Resource Center — where you will discover resources to support classroom instruction, professional learning, leadership work, and citizen science efforts.



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Online Resources During COVID-19 Shutdown

Classroom InstructionCitizen Science

We're here to help teachers at all levels with online science programs, units, and more.

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BSCS Science Learning Videoverse

Professional LearningLeadership Work

BSCS now offers free science classroom video resources for teacher learning.

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COVID-19 & Health Equity Units

Classroom Instruction

These high school science, middle school science, and K-5 units are freely available for download.

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Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope

Classroom Instruction

Invitations to Inquiry are instructional activities designed to help middle and high school students work with community and citizen science data. The data are from a range of projects hosted on BSCS’s interactive platform, FieldScope.

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A Medical Mystery

Classroom InstructionProfessional Learning

BSCS’s 3D middle school science program, A Medical Mystery, supports teachers in the effective instruction of an NGSS-aligned, EQuIP-reviewed body systems curriculum unit.

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Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit

Classroom Instruction

Restoring Ea is a place-based, three-dimensional, and phenomenon-focused unit specifically designed for seventh grade teachers and students in central O'ahu

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Allergies and Scientific Inquiry

Classroom Instruction

Allergies & Scientific Inquiry is an online curriculum supplement developed to help middle school educators more effectively teach about food allergies. Lessons are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

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BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, Fifth Edition

Classroom Instruction

BSCS Biology: A Human Approach is an activity-driven, full-year program that uses human examples to engage 9th and 10th grade students in fundamental biology concepts.

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BSCS Middle School Science

Classroom Instruction

BSCS Middle School Science is a standards- and inquiry-based program comprised of four units: Earth/Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and Science and Society.

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BSCS Science Learning Seminar Series

Professional Learning

BSCS Seminar Series brings distinguished speakers to share ideas and present their latest work to our community conversations.

Front cover of the textbook "BSCS Science Tracks: Investigating Matter and Energy in Ecosystems, Student Edition", with a picture of a mother sea otter and her pup.

BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy

Classroom Instruction

BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy allows preK through grade 5 students to interact like scientists, participating in inquiry-based activities while also developing important skills.

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Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Adolescent Brain

Classroom Instruction

BSCS curriculum unit teaches middle school science students about drug abuse and addiction in relevant contexts.

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Energy: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Teachers (EMAT)

Professional Learning

EMAT, an online course, helps teachers frame complex energy concepts in a way that will resonate with high school students and prepare them to participate in important societal conversations.

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FieldScope

Citizen Science

FieldScope, an interactive digital platform, is transforming the way educators, community members, and organizations engage in citizen science.

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Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS

Leadership Work

Five Tools and Processes is designed to help professional development leaders work with teachers on curriculum, instruction, and assessment to achieve the vision of NGSS.

Compass

Forces at a Distance

Classroom Instruction

This 8th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.

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Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis

Classroom Instruction

This 7th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.

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Metabolic Reactions

Classroom Instruction

This 7th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.

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NextGen TIME

Leadership Work

NextGen TIME is a suite of tools and processes for curriculum-based professional learning that supports educators with the evaluation, selection, and implementation of instructional materials designed for next generation science.

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OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Units

Classroom Instruction

BSCS Science Learning is the lead developer on the OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Program for NGSS, which currently has three units available for free download.

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Sound Waves

Classroom Instruction

This 8th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.

Front cover of "The Biology Teacher's Handbook, Fourth Edition" with a drawing of a yellow flower and a green chameleon.

The Biology Teacher’s Handbook, Fourth Edition

Classroom Instruction

The Biology Teacher’s Handbook, Fourth Edition, is filled with valuable teaching ideas and guidelines for grades 6-12 and college biology educators.

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Thermal Energy

Classroom Instruction

This 6th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.

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Understanding Ebola

Classroom Instruction

Understanding Ebola Virus Disease, is a free resource designed to educate teachers, students, and community members about Ebola and the factors that influence its spread.

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ViSTA

Professional Learning

ViSTA is designed to help preservice and inservice elementary teachers enhance their science content knowledge and instructional practices. Users explore the powerful STeLLA approach.

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ViSTA Plus

Professional Learning

ViSTA Plus is a full-semester online course designed to enhance preservice elementary teachers’ science content knowledge and instructional practices. Users explore the powerful STeLLA approach.

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Weather, Climate & Water Cycling

Classroom Instruction

This 6th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.