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Educator Resource Center


Welcome to the Educator Resource Center — where you will discover resources to support classroom instruction, professional learning, leadership work, and informal learning.



Bacteria and face of a coyote.

BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life

Classroom Instruction

Our new program, BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life, is designed to prepare high students for life in our complex, interconnected world.

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OpenSciEd High School Physics Units

Classroom Instruction

BSCS Science Learning led the development of the OpenSciEd High School Physics Course. The complete one-year program is now freely available.

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OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Units

Classroom Instruction

Led by BSCS Science Learning, a national consortium of curriculum developers and researchers created a three-year middle school science program for free distribution.

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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.

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Engineering in the Garden

Classroom Instruction

Engineering in the Garden is a free resource designed to help students address real world issues that arise in school gardens through engineering.

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A Medical Mystery

Classroom Instruction

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.

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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.

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Weather, Climate & Water Cycling

Classroom Instruction

In this 6th grade unit, students explore weather, climate, and water cycling in four separate lesson sets.

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Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis

Classroom Instruction

In this 7th grade unit, students question where their food comes from and consider which breakfast items might be from plants.

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Forces at a Distance

Classroom Instruction

In this 8th grade unit, students explore the cause of a speaker’s vibration as opposed to the effect.

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Thermal Energy

Classroom Instruction

In this 6th grade unit, students are challenged to create a cup that keeps drinks cold longer.

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Metabolic Reactions

Classroom Instruction

In this 7th grade unit, students investigate a real case study of M’Kenna, a 13-year-old girl, who reported some alarming medical symptoms to her doctor.

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Sound Waves

Classroom Instruction

In this 8th grade unit, students investigate how sounds can cause objects at a distance to move.

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COVID-19 & Health Equity Units

Classroom Instruction

These high school science, middle school science, and K-5 units are freely available for download.

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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.

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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.

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Resources for Environmental and Geography Educators

Classroom InstructionInformal Learning

Do you teach geography, environmental science, or similar classes? Here we have consolidated some recommended free lessons and units that may work for your classroom.

Past Projects

Looking for something that used to be here? Check our page of archived resources.

Take a look at archived R&D projects.