OpenSciEd K-12
For California Science Educators
High-Quality, CA NGSS-Aligned,
Science Curriculum for California
Activate Learning collaborates closely with science educators to support student-centered and three-dimensional learning, so that teachers AND students are successful using high-quality instructional materials.
Explore Activate Learning's OpenSciEd Curriculum for Grades K-12, aligned for school districts in California!
Meet the Certified Activate Learning OpenSciEd K-12 Curriculum!
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EdReports All-Green Rating ✅
The Activate Learning Certified Version of OpenSciEd 6-8 curriculum has earned the esteemed all-green rating from EdReports for alignment to college and career ready standards and other markers of high quality.
The OpenSciEd High School Biology, Chemistry, and Physics curriculum also meet expectations in all three gateways for high-quality instructional materials for all-green ratings!
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CA NGSS Alignment
OpenSciEd is aligned to the Framework and the California Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS).
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Phenomena Based & Driven by Evidence
Courses begin with real-world phenomena that spark student questions. An anchoring phenomenon and related phenomena motivate building ideas over time.
Students seek and use evidence to figure out phenomena as they build new science ideas.
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Investigation-Centered
Hands-on investigation-centered approach ensures rich, inquiry-based experiences, not teacher demonstrations—teachers act as facilitators and students drive learning.
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Full Fidelity Version of OpenSciEd Content
The Activate Learning Certified Versions stay true to the original, researched, and field-tested OpenSciEd content, ensuring the same high-quality, authentic learning experiences that were validated through years of classroom testing.
ACTIVATE LEARNING Your All-in-One Partner
Digital Platform & Assessments
OpenSciEd K-12 content is organized for teachers in one place, and language supports are included for students.
Insight Assessments
integrate seamlessly and auto-scoring saves teachers valuable time!
Print Materials & Notebooks
Save prep time with full-color print Teacher Editions for each unit of the OpenSciEd K-12 curriculum.
Student Notebooks
include with all handouts, reference sheets, and readings.
Complete Science Kits
Kits for hands-on investigations for all OpenSciEd units, grouped by lesson and prepared for teachers!
Virtual Investigations®
provide support for absent students and reliable content review.
Professional Learning
Full implementation support and personalized professional learning for educators.
Customer Success Specialists work closely with teachers to provide ongoing support.
OpenSciEd Program Highlights
Our end-to-end implementation supports these pillars, no matter the grade level.
Three-Dimensional
Phenomena-Based Approach
Students explore driving questions, conduct investigations, collect and analyze data, develop and use models to explain phenomena.
Designed for Equitable Science Learning
Access high-quality, adaptable materials that support standards-based, equitable science learning.
Total Support
for Teachers
Content, structure, and support to experience three-dimensional teaching and learning with OpenSciEd.
Explore Curricula
Discover OpenSciEd K-12 on the
Activate Learning Digital Platform
Experience a truly interactive digital edition of all OpenSciEd materials for teachers and students.
With the Activate Learning Digital Platform, students and teachers enjoy an interactive, engaging online experience with the OpenSciEd K-12 curriculum.
The platform is designed for student accessibility and inclusion and offers embedded translation for 130+ languages, text-to-speech with read-along highlighting, and sentence starters to support writing.
Featuring an intuitive user experience, teachers have everything they need to Plan, Teach, Assign, and Assess lessons in a platform that is integrated with leading SIS rostering and Learning Management Systems. And with Lesson Launch, teachers can can quickly view slides, handouts, student edition, and materials in one place!
OpenSciEd Books & Student Notebooks
Full-color print Teacher and Student Editions for each OpenSciEd Middle School science curriculum.
Four-color print Teacher Editions for each published unit of the OpenSciEd High School science curriculum.
Digital and full-color print versions of Student Readers to support literacy integration for OpenSciEd Elementary School science curriculum
- The ability to read and comprehend science text is essential for student engagement in science. OpenSciEd integrates informational text into its units to help students gather information, expand vocabulary, and discuss scientific concepts.
- The texts are intentionally crafted to enhance students’ sensemaking and expose them to various perspectives and disciplines within the scientific community.
Say goodbye to printing with our Student Notebooks!
- Notebooks provide all student handouts, reference sheets, articles and infographics with plenty of room for students to capture their responses to questions and discussion prompts.
- A helpful Community of Growing Ideas Chart is included for each OpenSciEd Elementary School unit.
- Multiple copies of the Project Tracker are included for each OpenSciEd Middle School and OpenSciEd High School unit.
- The perforated pages make it easy for students to put completed work into folders and binders!
- Available for all OpenSciEd K-12 science curricula.
Certified OpenSciEd Science Kits
Science equipment and materials are an essential element to investigation-centered learning and Activate Learning offers science kits to support every activity in each unit for OpenSciEd K-12.
- All products are rigorously tested for quality assurance.
- Materials are grouped by lesson so teachers can easily locate lesson-specific materials.
- Teacher-Ready and Student-Ready items are prepared for the teacher, saving valuable prep time and supporting classroom management.
- Activate Learning Kit Companion™ helps teachers save time and easily find everything in their shipment, quickly access important Safety Data Sheets, and view how-to videos to set up materials.
Certified OpenSciEdProfessional Learning
Activate Learning curriculum experts provide extensive OpenSciEd K-12 product implementation support and certified professional learning on the latest, most innovative strategies and techniques to engage students.
Comprehensive professional learning resources provide the necessary content, structure, and support to experience three-dimensional teaching and learning with OpenSciEd.
Scope and SequenceAt a Glance
The OpenSciEd Instructional Model uses a storyline approach, each lesson motivated by questions generated by students following their interactions with phenomena. In each unit of study, students explore the questions they have, make conclusions based on those investigations, and then strategize to come up with the next set of questions to investigate.
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Middle School
High School
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Thank you for the opportunity to share the Activate Learning OpenSciEd K-12 Curriculum with you!
Please connect with us if you have any questions.
Susan Fallon, PhD
Regional Sales Manager, California
Phone: (510) 708‑0723
Email: sfallon@activatelearning.com
