Science Generation now has a digital cousin!
Science Generation now has a digital cousin!
The SciGen Teacher Dashboard
is a large online collection of resources for middle school science teachers drawing from selected content in the classic SciGen, but with lots of great new assets added as well. Inside the dashboard you'll find digital interactives, videos, animations, comics, teaching slides, and so much more! It's organized into handy lesson plans offered in sequences, but teachers can select assets à la carte to augment any program of instruction. By carefully listening to teachers, SERP found that they desired readily available, highly engaging, and easy-to-manage materials focused on thinking, real-world events, evidence, and the literacy demands of science. With this in mind, we were careful to merge hands-on and language intensive activities.
This new open educational resource from SERP was developed in partnership with the Middle School Quality Initiative of the New York City Department of Education, the San Francisco Unified School District, and many scientists and content experts. (Including our own Dr. Bruce Alberts!)
Not only is this platform new, there’s also a lot of new content to be explored. There are three new cell units, plus new material on waves, density, and matter. This brings the total number of units to 24. The 18 units in the previous version's format will also remain available.
Also included are Teacher Tune-ups: just-in-time overviews, right next to the relevant student materials. These are quick content refreshers for busy professionals.