High School Chemistry Curriculum Review and Input Opportunity

We are in a high school chemistry curriculum adoption process, as our current materials need to be updated. We have convened a group of educators and specialists to review materials for high school chemistry, typically taught to 10^th grade students, for us to consider for the 2022-2023 school year and beyond. The top two materials under final consideration are listed below:

STEMscopes Chemistry (California version with integrated earth and space sciences)
OpenSciEd Chemistry (an open educational resource)

Opportunity to View the Curriculum

We would like to invite you to watch the videos to learn more about the shifts in science education, the instructional materials adoption process, and the two materials that were piloted this year.

Playlist of videos updating the changes and overview of materials:

High School Science Update 2022 (6:30)
Chemistry Adoption Process 2022 (4:40)
Chemistry Adoption STEMscopes 2022 (4:15)
Chemistry Adoption OpenSciEd 2022 (5:35)

After reviewing the materials using the links below, please provide feedback using the community feedback link.

Resources from High School Science Update:

Next Generation Science Standards Parent Guide
Understanding the Standards
Read the High School Science Standards (on the National Science Teaching Association site)

Curriculum Resources:

STEMscopes Chemistry (watch the video for help with navigation):

URL: https://n11060d147423.acceleratelearning.com/login

Username: BellevueReview

Password: science

Window: 3/28/22-4/10/22

OpenSciEd Resources

Education Week article about OpenSciEd materials: Teachers Nationwide Now Have Access to Open-Source Science Curriculum
Video from Plymouth Public Schools about OpenSciEd
OpenSciEd.org – The high school resources are not yet available on the website, but you can look at the style of the units through the middle school science materials

Feedback Process

The window for submitting feedback is now closed.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. You can email any questions or concerns to: sciencedeveloper@bsd405.onmicrosoft.com

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