Essentials Tab
This component has key concepts for an educator to know.
What is Teacher Background in the Essentials Tab.
This motion picture provides explanations for teachers to prepare and become familiar hands on explorations.
What is the Setup Video in the Explore Tab?
These short media clips provide engaging ways to build students' background and connections. Sometimes, there are more than one of these.
What are Content Connections in the Explain Tab?
Comprehension and content can be enhanced by assigning these to students. You can even differentiate by a Lexile level.
What is Reading Science in the Elaborate Tab?
This fun activity serves many purposes, and especially useful for our ELL students. It requires students to finish sentences with a logical word or phrase by clicking on a drop box.
What is CLOZE-ining in on Science in the Intervention Tab?
This component has alignment for previous grades and and next grade standards.
What is Standards Correlation in the Essential Tab?
The student guide for hands-on activities
What is the Explore Student Materials in the Explore tab
A printable and colorful slideshow with pictures words and definitions.
What is Picture Vocabulary in the Explain Tab
This component makes up the only vowel in the word STEM. It includes student challenges with criteria and materials to use. Students will do what real _____ do to build, test, and analyze.
What are Engineering Connections in the Elaborate Tap?
The extension/differentiation opportunity would be good to assign to students who love to draw. It is great way to for some students to extend the learning or help them catch up even faster for, while the teacher provides small group intervention to others.
What is Science Art in the Acceleration Tab?
Provides a list of necessary materials for each activity in the scope.
What is the Materials List in the Essentials Tab
A place for the teacher to find the description, preparation and procedures for hands-on activities.
What is the Teacher Guide in the Explore tab or the Teacher Instructions in the Engage tab
This component is organized by Bloom's Taxonomy, and features leveled prompts for teachers to present to students during the learning.
What are Question Prompts in the Explain Tab?
This component is within the tab that assesses student master with multiple methods. This type of assessment has students apply their skills of thinking and expressing themselves with narrative and expository prompts.
What is Writing Science in the Evaluate Tab?
An interactive instruction between teacher and students. The “we do” part of the lesson in which the teacher guides students through practice activities
What is Guided Practice in the Intervention tab
Provides a brief explanation of what is in each of the tabs for that scope
What is the Scope Summary in the Essentials Tab.
Practical ideas for teachers to use to help get students excited about the concept your about to teach.
What is Starters in the Engage tab
Mozart, Beethoven, The Beatles, and Taylor Swift would agree with this method of teaching as a great way to sneak in content while busting a move and breaking it down!
What is Science Rock in the Explain Tab?
This fun activity is a great way to quickly go over concepts before an assessment. It is not just words and definitions.
What is the Concept Review game in the Elaborate Tab?
A discipline that is used to apply existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications.
What is Science Applied in the Accelerate tab
This component contains the concrete persons, places, or things students should know, and what actions students should be able to do.
What is STANDARDS UNWRAPPED in the ESSENTIALS TAB?
Where you can find strategies to help beginner and intermediate ELL's.
What is the ELPS Strategies in the Teacher Instructions in the Engage and Explain tab
While not available for all lessons and grade levels, this very interactive e-text with built in quizzes can be assigned to students for more background. It even features a read aloud feature!
What is STEMscopedia in the Explain Tab?
While not available for all lessons and grade levels, this virtual field trip allows students to gain more background knowledge and exposure to places and people from around the world.
What is Virtual Investigations in the Elaborate tab?
A dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge of the scope.
What is the Project Based Learning activity in the Accelerate tab