Students complete an inquiry lab, typically at home or in a lab kitchen. They can split a recipe into fourths, use the original as a control and modify three other versions, increasing, decreasing or changing one ingredient. For example, we have found that reducing the butter by half or reducing the sugar by half does not significantly change the overall quality of baked sweets and can reduce their negative health impacts.

Students use the engineering design process to prepare a sample of gluep that can best meet their goal.

Printable student investigation guide for OpenSciEd unit 8.1: Contact Forces for lesson 5 

This 24x36 OpenSciEd Consensus Model is a derivitive of the original model in the OSE resources for until 6.1. We printed it on peel-and-stick vinyl and mounted it on a sheet of plastic core to make it rigid and lasting. The surface can be drawn on with dry erase markers and reused over time. 

This instructional slide show mixes original OpenSciEd instructional content for unit 6.1: Light and Matter with student activities and supplemental instruction.  Please make a copy to modify.  

This collection combines original content from OpenSciEd Unit 7.1: Chemical Reactions and Matter and teacher-developed slides and lessons and student note templates for lessons 1 thorugh 6  

This guide to OpenSciEd unit 7.5: Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity includes: Lesson pacing; and Assessment guidance. School districts that use The Teacher Clarity Playbook by Fisher and Frey Playbook will benefit from using this guide. Each lesson is labeled by a number and letter (ie: 3a) and contains the original resource three-dimensional standards as Lesson Level Performance Expectations. We have broken those PEs into student-friendly Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, which can be posted on boards or digital slides and used for assessment criteria.  

This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, prior knowledge, and assessment guidance to accompany the OpenSciEd unit 7.5 Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity. For schools who use Fisher and Frey's The Teacher Clarity Playbook, you'll find student-friendly learning intentions and success criteria for every lesson (indicated by a number and letter, ie: 4b), drawn from the OSE three dimensional performance expectations. These can be posted on slides or boards in classrooms to make learning visible for students and help design assessment criteria.   

This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, and assessment guidance to accompany the OpenSciEd unit 7.6 Earth Resources & Human Impact. For schools who use Fisher and Frey's The Teacher Clarity Playbook, you'll find student-friendly learning intentions and success criteria for every lesson, drawn from the OSE three dimensional performance expectations. These can be posted on slides or boards in classrooms to make learning visible for students and help design assessment criteria.  

This set of slides has been curated and developed by Kim Lemberger at the STEM Innovation Center Einstein Project and a cohort of teachers who trained under Kim. They are intended to elaborated on the labs in the 8.4 unit of OpenSciEd. 

In this lesson, students will learn about the different properties of paper towels and design a method for testing paper towel absorbency and strength.