Components
Each unit includes five key components:
EQUIPMENT KIT
- High-quality materials for 32 students
- Economical refill package available to replace consumable items
STUDENT BOOKS
- 18 copies of each student book included in kit to facilitate students reading in pairs
INVESTIGATION NOTEBOOK
- Provides students a place to record, brainstorm, summarize, reflect, prepare for oral communication, and write in scientific genres
- Provides options to challenge or support individual students
TEACHER’S GUIDE
- Learning goals and step-by-step instructions for each activity
- Just-in-time teaching support and options, including strategies to support English language learners
- Formative embedded assessments and scoring guides
- In-depth science background information
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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT BOOKLET
- Contains a set of pre- and post-assessments designed to enable teachers to measure student learning over the course of a unit
