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This chart shows how the gapless explanation is used to determine what specific concepts, guiding questions, and potential activities students would engage in. In this instance, the progression of learning is NOT in order of the explanation, but starts with areas that are more accessible for the students.

From the Tools for Ambitious Science Teaching website, these are high school (and teacher prep) units that provide example organizational structure along with videos from each of the major activities in the learning sequence.

From the Tools for Ambitious Science Teaching website, these are middle school (and teacher prep) units that provide example organizational structure along with videos from each of the major activities in the learning sequence.

In this middle school unit supported by NASA, students engage with online interactives, authentic datasets, and citizen science protocols to construct models and explanations for the unit driving question, "How do landscapes recover after a wildfire?"

Webinar from NSTA's Engage Spring 21 Event. This webinar run by Jonathan Griffith provides an overview of the curriculum helping students learn concepts regarding ecosystems dynamics.