Supporting New Mexico
Science Educators
New Mexico Science Curriculum
Approved Core Instructional Materials
OpenSciEd Science Curriculum + Total Support for Teachers = Successful Students
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.
Meet the OpenSciEd Middle School Science 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, a leading nonprofit organization that evaluates instructional materials for alignment to college and career ready standards and other markers of quality.
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Approved High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
The Activate Learning Certified Version of OpenSciEd 6-8 is approved for adoption of core instructional materials by the State of New Mexico.
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Phenomenon Based
An anchoring phenomenon and related phenomena motivate building ideas over time.
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Driven by Evidence
Students seek and use evidence to figure out phenomena as they build new science ideas.
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Equitable
The class community values the diversity of resources students bring to science class and understand how the learning is relevant to their own lives and communities.
As a certified OpenSciEd distributor and professional learning provider, we provide the digital platform, books, science kits, and professional learning to make OpenSciEd Middle School implementation smooth and successful!
Explore OpenSciEd 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 6-8 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!
Additional Assessment Resources
ONPAR Digital Assessments to Effectively Gauge Student Learning
ONPAR digital assessments are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for Middle School. They challenge students to think deeply about science ideas while engaging in science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts. These three-dimensional assessments integrate perfectly with the IQWST middle school science program.
In addition, ONPAR assessments have been found to be beneficial by many districts in providing student experience with the format and content of state tests.
Activate Learning Insight™ Assessments for Middle School
Built on the Activate Learning Digital Platform, Activate Learning Insight™ integrates seamlessly with the interactive digital edition of our middle school science programs.
Activate Learning Insight™ for middle school offers hundreds of pre-made assessments to help teachers evaluate student understanding across NGSS Performance Expectations and Disciplinary Core Ideas.
Certified OpenSciEdScience 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 Middle School.
OpenSciEd Middle School Science Kits are in stock and ready to ship!
- All products are rigorously tested for quality assurance.
- Materials are grouped by lesson so teachers can easily locate lesson-specific materials.
- 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.
- New! Time Savers include prepared bath bomb recipes, pre-cut light boxes, and painted cups.
The Activate Learning Kit Companion Get QR codes that save the day.
Stop spinning your wheels searching for resources and instead, ease into lessons with a kit companion interface that shows you the way.
With a quick smartphone scan of the outside of your kit’s box you get:
Get hours back in your day with our Kit Companion.
Take a sneak peek into how it works by scanning the QR code below, or watch this 2-minute video.
Certified OpenSciEdProfessional Learning
Activate Learning curriculum experts provide extensive OpenSciEd 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.
Thank you for the opportunity to share OpenSciEd with you!
Please connect with us if you have any questions.
Tori Coyle, M.Ed.
New Mexico Sales Manager, Activate Learning
Phone: 972‑742‑3439
Email: tcoyle@activatelearning.com
