OpenSciEd
Overview
- Overview
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OpenSciEd provides open-source science curricula organized around coherent phenomena. Students investigate questions through discussion, hands-on work, data, models, readings, and explanations, with teachers facilitating the development of scientific understanding.
Student models and explanations develop across a coherent investigation. Curriculum and teaching teams connect those artifacts with the unit’s learning goals and assessment practices in the adopted implementation. The adopted edition and implementation determine the available digital records. Curriculum teams and teachers coordinate materials, access, and the interpretation of locally assessed work.
Features
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Audience and instructional role
Grades / learners:
elementary through high-school science students, with released courses varying by grade band
Primary users:
science teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and professional-learning staff
Learning focus:
phenomena-driven inquiry, modeling, explanation, argumentation, and three-dimensional science learning — a nonprofit open-source science curriculum initiative
How it supports learning
- Students investigate coherent phenomena through discussion, hands-on work, data, models, readings, and explanation while teachers facilitate sensemaking rather than deliver isolated facts.
- Teachers should connect use to explicit learning goals and inspect student work rather than rely on completion or engagement alone.
Implementation and instructional decisions
- Open licensing reduces acquisition barriers but districts still need materials, professional learning, pacing, accessibility review, assessment planning, and version control.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the continuing role of teacher judgment.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A
OpenSciEd Privacy Policy:
https://www.openscied.org/openscied-terms-of-use-and-privacy-policies/
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Company News
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Interoperability
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