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Welcome to the Educator Resource Center — where you will discover resources to support classroom instruction, professional learning, leadership work, and citizen science efforts.
Online Resources During COVID-19 Shutdown
Classroom InstructionCitizen Science
We're here to help teachers at all levels with online science programs, units, and more.
BSCS Science Learning Videoverse
Professional LearningLeadership Work
BSCS now offers free science classroom video resources for teacher learning.
COVID-19 & Health Equity Units
Classroom Instruction
These high school science, middle school science, and K-5 units are freely available for download.
Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope
Classroom Instruction
Invitations to Inquiry are instructional activities designed to help middle and high school students work with community and citizen science data. The data are from a range of projects hosted on BSCS’s interactive platform, FieldScope.
A Medical Mystery
Classroom InstructionProfessional Learning
BSCS’s 3D middle school science program, A Medical Mystery, supports teachers in the effective instruction of an NGSS-aligned, EQuIP-reviewed body systems curriculum unit.
Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit
Classroom Instruction
Restoring Ea is a place-based, three-dimensional, and phenomenon-focused unit specifically designed for seventh grade teachers and students in central O'ahu
Allergies and Scientific Inquiry
Classroom Instruction
Allergies & Scientific Inquiry is an online curriculum supplement developed to help middle school educators more effectively teach about food allergies. Lessons are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.
BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, Fifth Edition
Classroom Instruction
BSCS Biology: A Human Approach is an activity-driven, full-year program that uses human examples to engage 9th and 10th grade students in fundamental biology concepts.
BSCS Middle School Science
Classroom Instruction
BSCS Middle School Science is a standards- and inquiry-based program comprised of four units: Earth/Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and Science and Society.
BSCS Science Learning Seminar Series
Professional Learning
BSCS Seminar Series brings distinguished speakers to share ideas and present their latest work to our community conversations.
BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy
Classroom Instruction
BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy allows preK through grade 5 students to interact like scientists, participating in inquiry-based activities while also developing important skills.
Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Adolescent Brain
Classroom Instruction
BSCS curriculum unit teaches middle school science students about drug abuse and addiction in relevant contexts.
Energy: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Teachers (EMAT)
Professional Learning
EMAT, an online course, helps teachers frame complex energy concepts in a way that will resonate with high school students and prepare them to participate in important societal conversations.
FieldScope
Citizen Science
FieldScope, an interactive digital platform, is transforming the way educators, community members, and organizations engage in citizen science.
Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS
Leadership Work
Five Tools and Processes is designed to help professional development leaders work with teachers on curriculum, instruction, and assessment to achieve the vision of NGSS.
Forces at a Distance
Classroom Instruction
This 8th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.
Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
Classroom Instruction
This 7th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.
Metabolic Reactions
Classroom Instruction
This 7th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.
NextGen TIME
Leadership Work
NextGen TIME is a suite of tools and processes for curriculum-based professional learning that supports educators with the evaluation, selection, and implementation of instructional materials designed for next generation science.
OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Units
Classroom Instruction
BSCS Science Learning is the lead developer on the OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Program for NGSS, which currently has three units available for free download.
Sound Waves
Classroom Instruction
This 8th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.
The Biology Teacher’s Handbook, Fourth Edition
Classroom Instruction
The Biology Teacher’s Handbook, Fourth Edition, is filled with valuable teaching ideas and guidelines for grades 6-12 and college biology educators.
Thermal Energy
Classroom Instruction
This 6th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.
Understanding Ebola
Classroom Instruction
Understanding Ebola Virus Disease, is a free resource designed to educate teachers, students, and community members about Ebola and the factors that influence its spread.
ViSTA
Professional Learning
ViSTA is designed to help preservice and inservice elementary teachers enhance their science content knowledge and instructional practices. Users explore the powerful STeLLA approach.
ViSTA Plus
Professional Learning
ViSTA Plus is a full-semester online course designed to enhance preservice elementary teachers’ science content knowledge and instructional practices. Users explore the powerful STeLLA approach.
Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
Classroom Instruction
This 6th grade unit is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and freely available for download.