All Middle School resources
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 2, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 26, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 19, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Member Web Seminar
Archive: Meaningful STEM: Student-Centered Strategies for Engagement, October 28, 2025
Meaningful STEM learning is built around student curiosity and questions about the real world. This session focuses on practical strategies that ensure students are the drivers of their learning. Join us to explore ways to maximize student engagement...
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Archive: Meaningful STEM: Integrating Technology in the STEM Classroom, October 7, 2025
Technology is a core component of STEM learning but must be used with intention and purpose to create meaningful learning opportunities for students. In this webinar, facilitators share strategies for and trends in integrating computer science, codin...
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Archive: Meaningful STEM: Expanding Access Through Engagement, September 30, 2025
How can educators create authentic STEM experiences for all students? This session explores strategies to expand student access to and participation in STEM by building strong community partnerships and connecting learning to real-world careers....
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Hubble Observations of Interstellar Objects, August 21, 2025
A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the third interstellar object, known as 3I/ATLAS and resembling a comet, traveling at 130,000 miles per hour within our solar system using the crisp vision of Hubble. This breathtaking spri...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 12, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Unit Launch 8.6 Natural Selection
Unit 8.6: Natural Selection Format: 2-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Reflect on students’ writing and drawing to identify strengths and potential barriers to sensemaking Analyze lessons and student work to understand the purpose ...
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Unit Launch 8.5 Genetics
Unit 8.5: Genetics Format: 2-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Analyze OpenSciEd assessments using key criteria for three-dimensional (3D) learning Identify and evaluate the different types of assessments within the OpenSciEd assessme...
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Unit Launch 8.4 Earth in Space
Unit 8.4: Earth in Space Format: 2-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Explore how OpenSciEd lessons are designed to reflect Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles Identify instructional strategies that align with UDL to support...
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Unit Launch 8.3 Forces at a Distance
Unit 8.3: Forces at a Distance Format: 2-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Analyze OpenSciEd classroom videos to explore features of a productive classroom culture Identify and share strategies for developing and sustaining effective ...
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Unit Launch 8.2 Sound Waves
Unit 8.2: Sound Waves Format: 2-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Reflect on successes and challenges from implementing the first unit Share expertise and collaboratively problem-solve with peer Explore teacher moves and supports tha...
Workshop
OpenSciEd MS Curriculum Launch 8.1 Contact Forces
Unit 8.1: Contact Forces Format: 4-Day In-Person Workshop Participants will: Experience the anchoring phenomenon routine and storyline development Facilitate key investigations and student-driven discussions Establish effective classroom nor...


