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.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/bscs-biology.jpg)
BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life
Our new program, BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life, is designed to prepare high students for life in our complex, interconnected world.
![Image: A child's hand touching a window](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/openscied-middle-school-1.jpg)
OpenSciEd Middle Grades Science Units
Led by BSCS Science Learning, a national consortium of curriculum developers and researchers created a three-year middle school science program for free distribution.
![Windmills](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/windfarm.jpg)
OpenSciEd High School Physics Units
BSCS Science Learning is leading the development of the OpenSciEd High School Physics Course. The first unit is freely available.
![Students working in a garden.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/TILL_webimage_2-copy.jpg)
Engineering in the Garden
Engineering in the Garden is a free resource designed to help students address real world issues that arise in school gardens through engineering.
![Lilac flowers](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/budburst-lilac-festival.jpg)
Invitations to Inquiry with FieldScope
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.
![Students in a classroom pointing at a laptop screen.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1605_h_edit.jpg)
A Medical Mystery
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.
![Tropical landscape with palm trees, water, and a rainbow.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/loko_ea1.jpg)
Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit
Restoring Ea is a place-based, three-dimensional, and phenomenon-focused unit specifically designed for seventh grade teachers and students in central O'ahu.
![Rain and clouds over a field](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/openscied-weather.jpg)
Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
In this 6th grade unit, students explore weather, climate, and water cycling in four separate lesson sets.
![Stack of pancakes with strawberries on top and hand pouring syrup](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/matter_cycling_and_photosynthesis.jpg)
Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
In this 7th grade unit, students question where their food comes from and consider which breakfast items might be from plants.
![Compass lying on the ground](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/forces_at_a_distance.jpg)
Forces at a Distance
In this 8th grade unit, students explore the cause of a speaker’s vibration as opposed to the effect.
![A clear glass with water and ice cubes inside, a green and white straw, and condensation on the outside](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cover_te_thermal_energy.jpg)
Thermal Energy
In this 6th grade unit, students are challenged to create a cup that keeps drinks cold longer.
![Teenage girl eating a lemon](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cover_te_metabolic_reactions.jpg)
Metabolic Reactions
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.
![Hands hitting a drum](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cover_te_sound_waves.jpg)
Sound Waves
In this 8th grade unit, students investigate how sounds can cause objects at a distance to move.
![Image: A woman wearing a mask around her nose and mouth](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/covid-1.jpg)
COVID-19 & Health Equity Units
These high school science, middle school science, and K-5 units are freely available for download.
![Four people sitting at a table](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/health-literacy-image.jpg)
Making Evidence-Driven Decisions in a Media-Driven World
This set of curriculum modules—one for middle school and one for high school students—helps students develop the critical thinking skills to help them make sense of information from these different media sources.
![Closeup of peanuts.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/peanut-allergies.jpg)
Allergies and Scientific Inquiry
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.
![Illustration of human brain inside a person's head.](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/drug_abuse.jpg)
Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Adolescent Brain
BSCS curriculum unit teaches middle school science students about drug abuse and addiction in relevant contexts.
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Understanding Ebola
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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BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy
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.
![Snowy mountains](https://bscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/snowy-mountains.jpg)
Resources for Environmental and Geography Educators
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
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