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Scaffolds for Science Core Curriculum
Scaffolds for Science Core Curriculum
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Biology curriculum
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Biology curriculum
(School Year 2025 - 2026 version)
(School Year 2025 - 2026 version)
These resources are only available to NYC Public Schools Faculty and Staff. To access the resources you must be logged in to your browser with your NYCPS credentials.
These resources are updated periodically, so it is not recommended that you make your own copy of the entire set of unit based scaffolds. Instead, use this site to access the materials and make a copy of each scaffold as needed to ensure you have the most up-to-date version. Please click here for an outline of changes made by New Visions from 2024 - 25 to 2025 - 26 (2024 - 25 versions of scaffolds can be found by scrolling down).
Additionally, OML made significant updates to the Marathon Runner Unit scaffold set this school year - eliminating drop down menu options and replacing with checkboxes, landscape formatting has been changed to portrait, the picture dictionary has updated categories, and there is now a performance task organizer as well as a scaffold for every task reflecting our work with the other units.
Unit 2: Humans vs. Bacteria (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 3: Evolution of Sick Humans (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 4: Saving the Mountain Lion (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 5: Food for All (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 6: Woolly Mammoth (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Earth and Space Science curriculum
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Earth and Space Science curriculum
(School Year 2025 - 2026 version)
(School Year 2025 - 2026 version)
These resources are only available to NYC Public Schools Faculty and Staff. To access the resources you must be logged in to your browser with your NYCPS credentials.
These resources are updated periodically, so it is not recommended that you make your own copy of the entire set of unit based scaffolds. Instead, use this site to access the materials and make a copy of each scaffold as needed to ensure you have the most up-to-date version.
Please click here for an outline of changes made by New Visions from 2024 - 25 to 2025 - 26. 2024 - 25 Scaffolds can be found by scrolling down.
Please note that OML will continue to stay up-to-date with small scale revisions made by New Visions, however, after the 2025 - 2026 school year, we will no longer be providing updates for comprehensive unit changes or complete unit overhauls/rewrites, should they occur.
Unit 1: Discovering New Worlds
Unit 2: Probability of Life in the Universe
Unit 3: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis: Who's at Risk? (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 4: Climate Change (2025 - 2026 Updates Coming Soon)
Unit 5: More Hurricanes and Blizzards in NYC?
Unit 6: Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Amplify K-8 Science Curriculum Unit-Based Scaffold Samples
Amplify K-8 Science Curriculum Unit-Based Scaffold Samples
Grade 6: Launch Unit Harnessing Human Energy
Grade 7: Launch Unit Microbiome
Grade 8: Launch Unit Geology on Mars
Check back soon for supplementary scaffold sets for sample unit from Amplify Science grade 3
Grade 3: Unit 1 Balancing Forces
NYSED Investigations
NYSED Investigations
SECURE MATERIALS: READ FIRST
SECURE MATERIALS: READ FIRST
NYCPS Educators can access scaffolds for the NYSED Investigations below. You must be logged in with your NYCPS credentials to access these secure documents and you are not permitted to share with other educators.
“Using public/open websites such as Facebook, Pinterest, Teachers Pay Teachers, X (formerly Twitter), Quizizz, YouTube, or Wakelet, etc. as a means of sharing and/or exchanging any portion of the Investigations with students, teachers outside your district, parents, and the public is prohibited.”
Earth and Space Science:
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Biology curriculum
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Biology curriculum
(School Year 2024 - 2025 version)
(School Year 2024 - 2025 version)
These resources are only available to NYC Public Schools Faculty and Staff. To access the resources you must be logged in to your browser with your NYCPS credentials.
These resources are updated periodically, so it is not recommended that you make your own copy of the entire set of unit based scaffolds. Instead, use this site to access the materials and make a copy of each scaffold as needed to ensure you have the most up-to-date version.
Unit 3: Evolution of Sick Humans
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Earth and Space Science curriculum
Unit-based scaffolds for New Visions Earth and Space Science curriculum
(School Year 2024 - 2025 version)
(School Year 2024 - 2025 version)
These resources are only available to NYC Public Schools Faculty and Staff. To access the resources you must be logged in to your browser with your NYCPS credentials.
These resources are updated periodically, so it is not recommended that you make your own copy of the entire set of unit based scaffolds. Instead, use this site to access the materials and make a copy of each scaffold as needed to ensure you have the most up-to-date version.
Unit 1: Discovering New Worlds
Unit 2: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis: Who's at Risk?
Unit 3: Climate Change throughout Human History
Unit 4: More Hurricanes and Blizzards in NYC?
Earn CTLE Professional Hours for MLs/ELLs
Earn CTLE Professional Hours for MLs/ELLs
CTLE Professional Development Series: Integrating Science and Language with a Focus on English Language Learners
CTLE Professional Development Series: Integrating Science and Language with a Focus on English Language Learners
Earn 15 asynchronous CTLE hours in ELLs, Content, and Pedagogy
This series is designed for science and language educators to improve classroom practices for instruction and assessment by engaging in tasks that promote science and language instructional shifts. These shifts are presented in the NYSED Integrating Science and Language for All Students with a Focus on English Language Learners webinars and briefs.
Link to the CTLE Professional Development Series
NYC DOE Resources - Laboratory
NYC DOE Resources - Laboratory
Science Safety Manual, Grades 6-12
Science Safety Manual, Grades 6-12
This 2021 version provides guidance around safe and ethical procedures for science teaching and learning and addresses city, state and federal regulations for science laboratories, investigations and experimental learning activities.
Link to the NYC DOE Science Safety Manual, Grades 6-12
NYSED Resources
NYSED Resources
Integrating Science and Language Webinars and Briefs
Integrating Science and Language Webinars and Briefs
Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages
New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards Turnkey Guidance
New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards Turnkey Guidance
Office of Standards and Instruction
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