Educator Resource Center

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

BSCS Science Learning is leading the development of the OpenSciEd High School Physics Course. The first unit is freely available now.

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

Making Evidence-Driven Decisions in a Media-Driven World is a set of curriculum modules—one for middle school and one for high school students—that help students develop the critical thinking skills to help them make sense of information from these different media sources.

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.

Restoring Ea is a place-based, three-dimensional, and phenomenon-focused unit specifically designed for seventh grade teachers and students in central O'ahu.

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

BSCS Science Learning is the lead developer on the OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Program for Next Generation Science Standards, which currently has three units available for free download.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Allergies and 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 curriculum unit teaches middle school science students about drug abuse and addiction in relevant contexts.

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.

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.

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.