IQWST
Product identity
- Publisher
- Activate Learning
- Program family
- IQWST
- Edition
- California Edition (2019)
Instructional fit
Materials and delivery
- Format description
- Print, digital, and hands-on curriculum with student materials, teacher editions, investigations, models, readings, assessment, and an online platform.
- Included components
- Integrated grade-level units; student activity books; teacher editions; laboratory investigations; models and evidence-based explanations; discussion routines; embedded assessment; differentiation guidance; activity-setup video tutorials; Activate Learning digital platform.
- Languages and support
- English with differentiation strategies and language-rich scientific discussion, reading, and writing supports.
- Format components
Links and notes
- Vendor product URL
- Visit publisher product page
- Curriculum notes
- Formerly titled 'IQWST California Edition' in the source inventory. Activate Learning currently markets the program as IQWST and identifies it as California-approved; this record retains the California edition in the edition field.
Availability
- Product availability
- Available
- Last checked
- September 29, 2026
An integrated grades 6–8 science curriculum organized around driving questions, coherent investigations, modeling, discussion, reading, writing, and evidence-based explanation.
IQWST is a three-year middle-school science curriculum in which students investigate meaningful driving questions and build explanations across connected lessons and units. The California sequence integrates physical, life, Earth and space science, and engineering through hands-on investigation, modeling, scientific discourse, literacy, assessment, and application.