Accessing Resources on ThinkLink
This summer, FOSSweb is moving to a new platform. This move will guarantee you and your students more stable and reliable FOSSweb access, plus many new site features, without changing how you already teach FOSS.
You'll be able to access FOSSweb on ThinkLink beginning in the 2021-2022 school year. ThinkLink is a new curriculum platform from School Specialty, built to support easy single sign-on and class management with Clever, Google, and more.
More About Investigations
Active investigation is a master pedagogy. Embedded within active learning are a number of pedagogical elements and practices that keep active investigation vigorous and productive. In the practice of science, scientists put things together and take things apart, observe systems and interactions, and conduct experiments. This is the core of science—active, firsthand experience with objects, organisms, materials, and systems in the natural and designed worlds.
In the FOSS Program, students engage in the same processes as scientists. Students often conduct investigations in collaborative groups of four, with each student taking a role and contributing to the effort.
The active investigations in FOSS are cohesive and build on each other and the readings to lead students to a comprehensive understanding of concepts. Through the investigations, students gather meaningful data.