Frequently Asked Questions

Both teachers and rostered students can access the Amplify Science digital platform via the EGUSD Classlink portal. Look for the orange "A".

Students do not need to know their Amplify Science login or password since it is all done through Clever, a single sign-on provider.

If your icon does not work, it means that you do not have students currently rostered in a class that uses STEMscopes. In the meantime, you can access the demo account. Just follow these directions.

In the Amplify digital platform, click on the "hamburger" (three bars in the upper left).

Scroll to the bottom and click on the "Science Program Hub." Then, select "Remote and hybrid learning resources."

You can access videos of teachers teaching the lessons, videos of the hands-on investigations, and read-aloud videos!

The EGUSD Warehouse team is working as quickly as they can to get materials out to sites.

In the meantime, you can still implement the Amplify Science curriculum. Here are two possible options:

1. Use the @Home resources and lesson videos, as outlined in the Lesson Planners.

2. Contact Kelli to see if hands-on materials might be accessible in her hoarded stash of science stuff. 😉

To see what materials you will be getting, please reference the Implementation Kit Materials.

Student Investigation Notebooks are available for grades 2-5 only. In the first year of implementation, 2021-2022, these notebooks can be used consumably. In 2022-2023, a class set of notebooks will be provided for reference use only. A teacher copy of each notebook can be found in the materials kits.

Each class, grade 2-5, is provided with 18 copies of each reader. Classes will NOT be given extra. The limited number is because the readers are intended for use in paired/shared reading settings. *During this time of mitigating the spread of COVID-19, if you would rather not have the students sharing, students are able to access a digital form of the readers in the "Amplify Library" or you can assign the YouTube read-aloud.

"Beta" indicates that that unit includes the NEW digital experience. In addition to Powerpoint slides or Google slides, teachers can use the new digital experience to present the lessons and assign student work digitally.

Teachers can control what students see and can monitor student work in real time.

To read more, go here: https://my.amplify.com/help/en/articles/4827093-amplify-science-digital-elementary-early-adopter-experience

Teachers will get their own kits, including hands-on materials and readers (18 copies per reader).

EXCEPTIONS:

• K/1 combo teachers will get both grade-level kits. All other combo teachers will have to share kits with their grade-level colleagues.

• Self-contained Special Education teachers will receive science curriculum and kits for one grade only, as selected by the Special Education Department.

Kits should last 2-3 years. At the end of year 2, data will be collected to determine the need to replenish kits centrally or not.  *If teachers do not use the materials, there will be no need to replenish; but if teachers teach the curriculum, we will have a need!

The NGSS Benchmark assessments are built to be delivered after specific units in the recommended Amplify Science scope and sequence. Please see below for recommended sequence and file downloads.