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Open Sci Ed
Access to resources and materials intended to improve science education through the development and implementation of high-quality, freely available science instructional materials.
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Open Sci Ed: 8.2 Sound Waves Teacher Professional Development Overview
This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 8.2 Sound Waves unit.
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Open Sci Ed: 7.3 Metabolic Reactions Teacher Professional Development Overview
This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 7.3 Metabolic Reactions unit.
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Open Sci Ed: 6.2 Thermal Energy Teacher Professional Development Overview
This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 6.2 Thermal Energy unit.
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Open Sci Ed: Unit 8.2 Sound Waves
In this unit, 8th graders develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance.
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Open Sci Ed: Unit 7.3 Metabolic Reactions
This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M'Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor.
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Open Sci Ed: Visualizing Sound in a Medium
This simulation is a slow motion version of what you might actually see if you could see particles in a medium vibrating.
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Open Sci Ed: 7.1 Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformations
This Chemical Reactions & Matter Transformationsun unit has students investigating where the students investigate the chemical reactions of a bath bomb.
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Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
This Weather, Climate & Water Cycling unit has students investigating small-scale storms, mesoscale weather systems and climate-level patterns of precipitation.
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Open Sci Ed: 6.2 Thermal Energy
This Thermal Energy unit has students investigating two ways to transfer energy into a drink: (1) the absorption of light and (2) thermal energy from the warmer air around the drink. They are then challenged to design their own drink...
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Open Sci Ed: 8.2 Sound Waves
Eighth graders develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance.
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Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
This unit on matter cycling and photosynthesis has students investigating the idea that all food comes from plants.
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Open Sci Ed: 7.3 Metabolic Reactions
This Metabolic Reactions unit has students investigating what happens to food after we eat, and how it affects the body.
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Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 & Health Equity, High School Science
This unit is designed to support students in understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and the impacts of the pandemic on communities, especially communities of color.
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Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 & Health Equity
This unit explores how different communities are differentially impacted by the virus through the lens of historical inequities in society. I
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Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance
This unit allows students to investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
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Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
Why does a lot of hail, rain, or snow fall at some times and not others? This unit contains four separate lesson sets built around answering this question. In the first two lesson sets, students explain small-scale storms. In the third...
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Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
Where does food come from and where does it go next? This unit helps students figure out that they can trace all food back to plants, including processed and synthetic food. They obtain and communicate information to explain how matter...
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Open Ed Sci: Covid 19 & Health Equity, Grades K 2
In this unit, students explore the basics of how Covid-19 affects people, and design investigations to explore how it spreads from person to person, and what we can do to prevent that spread.
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Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 & Health Equity, Middle School Science
The unit focuses on the question How can people help end pandemics? It is designed to teach students about the COVID-19 pandemic, transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and the impacts of the pandemic on communities.
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Open Sci Ed: Unit 6.2 Thermal Energy
This unit on thermal energy transfer begins with students testing whether a new plastic cup sold by a store keeps a drink colder for longer compared to the regular plastic cup that comes free with the drink.
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Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Chloroplasts and Food Model
The simulation shows the relationship between the inputs and outputs in the chloroplasts of plant, that can help explain how they convert water and carbon dioxide to glucose and water with the help of energy absorbed from light.
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Open Sci Ed: Hitting the High Notes: Pitch
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.
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Open Sci Ed: Turn It Up!: Loudness
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.