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NSTA is offering two free OpenSciEd webinars for K-12 educators. Find registration links and details below.
NSTA is offering two free OpenSciEd webinars for K-12 educators. Find registration links and details below.
Date: July 21, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM ET
Duration: 30 Minutes
Audience: School and district leaders, science curriculum coordinators, teacher leaders and instructional coaches, and anyone guiding the future of science education.
Science education is evolving—and OpenSciEd is leading the way. Join us for Learn and Lead: The Future of Science Instruction, a powerful web seminar designed for education leaders, curriculum specialists, and forward-thinking educators who want to understand why OpenSciEd is setting a new standard for science instruction.
This session will introduce the instructional shifts at the heart of the OpenSciEd model, including how they promote deeper learning for all and student-driven inquiry. You’ll also hear compelling data and real-world testimonials from districts and classrooms that have adopted OpenSciEd—highlighting measurable impacts on student engagement, achievement, and teacher practice.
Key Takeaways:
A clear introduction to OpenSciEd’s instructional shifts and their benefits
How OpenSciEd supports student-centered, phenomena-based learning
Data and testimonials that showcase OpenSciEd’s success in real classrooms
Insights into how you can lead this shift in your school or district
Date: August 5, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET
Shifting to a new science curriculum is no small feat, but schools across the country are doing it successfully with OpenSciEd and seeing real results. Join us for Making the Shift, a practical and inspiring web seminar designed for school and district leaders, instructional coaches, and educators navigating the journey of science curriculum transformation.
In this session, you’ll hear firsthand insights from schools and districts that have successfully implemented OpenSciEd, including what worked, the challenges they encountered, and how they built momentum. We will also explore effective strategies for teacher training and professional learning, with a focus on sustaining high-quality instruction over time.
Key Topics:
Lessons learned from real-world OpenSciEd implementations
Strategies for teacher training and ongoing professional learning
Important Guides
Important Guides
A series of webinars will be hosted to introduce you to OpenSciEd fundamentals and overview the units.
Elementary: First 2 Units Now Released!
Elementary: First 2 Units Now Released!
OSE Elementary Units - Being released starting August 2024 through Winter 2026
OSE Elementary Units - Being released starting August 2024 through Winter 2026
Kindergarten
Why do some surfaces get hot and how can we make them less hot?
How can we be prepared for the weather?
Unit K.3: Forces & Motion
How can we move things to where we want them to go? - March 2025
Unit K.4: Ecosystems: Plants, Animals, and their Environment
What do plants and animals need and should we help them? - Winter 2026
1st Grade
How can we read under covers when it is dark?
How do objects make and use sound to communicate?
Unit 1.3: Space: Sky Patterns
How do patterns of the Sun, Moon, and stars affect what we see in the sky? - March 2025
Unit 1.4: Animal & Plant Traits
How do animals and plants use their parts to survive? - Winter 2026
2nd Grade
Unit 2.1: Earth: Land Changing Shape
How do wind and water change the shape of the land and what can we do about it?
Unit 2.2: Structure & Properties of Matter
How can we design a new toy?
Unit 2.3: Habitats & Biodiversity
What plants and animals live in different lands, waters, and other places? - Summer 2025
Unit 2.4: Plants
How is that growing there? - Winter 2026
3rd Grade
Unit 3.1: Forces & Interactions
How can we design objects to balance and move in different ways?
Why do plants only grow well in certain places, and how can we protect them?
Unit 3.3: Trait Variations
Why do animals look and act the way that they do? - Summer 2025
Unit 3.4: Ecosystem Change & Survival
How do changes to ecosystems affect what lives there? - Winter 2026
4th Grade
Unit 4.1: Energy Transfer: Collisions
Why does an object’s motion change?
Unit 4.2: Energy Transfer: Electricity
How do we power computers and other electrical devices?
Unit 4.3: Earth Processes
What causes Earth’s landscape to change and how do the changes impact humans? - Summer 2025
Unit 4.4: Structure & Function
How do the structure and function of traits of living things benefit them? - Winter 2026
5th Grade
Unit 5.1: Ecosystems & Matter Cycling
How does a nurse log help other things live and grow?
How can we make water healthy for all living things?
Unit 5.3: Earth Systems
How does changing the flow of water impact Earth’s systems, and how can humans help? - Summer 2025
Unit 5.4: Earth in the Universe
How and why does what I see in the sky change? - Winter 2026
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