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Inspire Curiosity
By encouraging creative problem-solving, you
inspire their innovation.
Inspire Investigation
From Popsicles® to blue jeans, from televisions to smartphones—California has always been at the forefront of innovation. Students in classrooms today have the potential to solve the problems of tomorrow. California Inspire Science® is designed to help you build the skills they’ll need to carry California’s legacy of inspired thinking.EndFragment
By fostering student’s innate curiosity, you elevate
their critical thinking.
Inspire Innovation
Future Innovators,
California Inspired
By facilitating hands-on investigation, you deepen
their understanding.
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This interactive guide will give you a brief orientation to the California Inspire Science program design and features while walking you through the module and lesson structure.
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To promote college and career readiness through a more innovative approach to K–5 science education, California Inspire Science® is intentionally built to support three-dimensional learning and California’s rigorous Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Explore the pedagogical philosophies and instructional design strategies that serve as the foundation for California Inspire Science and discover how this program can transform the learning experience and bring science to life in your classroom.
Program Design
To promote college and career readiness through a more innovative approach to K–6 science education, California Inspire Science is intentionally built to support three-dimensional learning and California’s rigorous Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Explore the pedagogical philosophies and instructional design strategies that serve as the foundation for California Inspire Science and discover how this program can transform the learning experience and bring science to life in your classroom.
PROGRAM DESIGN
DESIGNED FOR
CALIFORNIA NGSS
INSPIRE ALL
STUDENTS
Inspire All Students
Designed for California NGSS
DESIGNED FOR CALIFORNIA NGSS
Learning begins with curiosity. California Inspire Science provides an in-depth, collaborative, and project-based learning experience designed to help you spark students’ interest and empower them to ask more questions and think more critically. Through inquiry-based, hands-on investigations of real-world phenomena, your students will be able to construct explanations for scientific phenomena or design solutions for real-world problems.
PHENOMENA-DRIVEN
LEARNING
INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
CROSS-CURRICULAR
CONNECTIONS
STEM CAREER
CONNECTIONS
Anchoring Module Phenomena
Every day, we are surrounded by natural phenomena that pique our curiosity. In California Inspire Science, these phenomena are the centerpiece of each module and lesson. They engage students and inspire them to investigate key science and engineering concepts through a three-dimensional learning experience.
Each module begins with an anchoring phenomenon question that will promote student thinking and uncover students’ initial ideas. Throughout the module, at various points in each lesson, students will reveal their understanding by revisiting the anchoring phenomenon and seeing how their thinking has evolved.
Anchoring Module Phenomena
Math Integration
Inquiry Spectrum
Investigative Lesson Phenomena
STEM Module Project
Literacy Integration
STEM Career Connections
Resources for Every Classroom
We understand that different classrooms have different needs for physical and digital resources. We know those needs can change day-to-day. California Inspire Science® is designed to fit all your resource needs through a wide array of print, digital, and hands-on materials, so you have access to all of the great learning resources in any form you’d like, whenever you need them.
STEM Career Connections
Anchoring Module Phenomena
Literacy Integration
Inquiry Spectrum
Investigative Lesson Phenomena
STEM Module Project
Math Integration
Differentiated Instruction
Language Building Resources
Bilingual/Dual Immersion
Uniting Phenomena
Advanced and Gifted Learners
Inquiry is more than hands-on activities. With California Inspire Science, students will investigate phenomena through several techniques reflective of the way science and engineering are done in the real world.
Every lesson within California Inspire Science was developed with built-in inquiry spectrum options that give you the flexibility to modify the level of instruction to align with the learning needs of each student.
Inquiry Spectrum
In California Inspire Science, students will engage with math in the same way that real scientists and engineers do. Within every module, they will collect and analyze data, create graphs, and make connections between mathematics and real-world events to solve challenging problems.
Look for the California Common Core State Standards (CCSS) icon embedded throughout every lesson of California Inspire Science to help make concrete math connections.
Math Integration
STEM Career Connections
California Inspire Science integrates real-world STEM career connections into each module and lesson with real-world scientists and engineers.
Throughout grades K–5, the STEM Career Kids provide an approachable and engaging introduction to STEM careers for young learners.
California Inspire Science has been designed to ensure that all students have access to quality, intellectually-rich science and engineering curriculum that supports language development and provides engaging learning opportunities.
INSPIRE ALL STUDENTS
UNITING
PHENOMENA
DIFFERENTIATED
INSTRUCTION
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SUPPORT
ADVANCED AND
GIFTED LEARNERS
Phenomenon-driven instruction levels the playing field for learners by allowing them to access the core science content through a shared experience observing a highly relevant real-world phenomenon.
Uniting Phenomena
Uniting Phenomena
Bilingual/Dual Immersion
Uniting Phenomenon
Language Building Resources
Differentiated Instruction
Advanced and Gifted Learners
California Inspire Science incorporates the research-based Universal Design Learning Principles to provide educational practices that support multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression to ensure that all students have access to rigorous curriculum. Within the Teacher's Edition, you will find differentiation support for various student levels along with easy to implement lesson modifications.
Differentiated Instruction
Language Building Resources
Each module and lesson has scaffolded activities designed to meet the California English Language Development (CA ELD) Framework Standards. These scaffolded activities offer English learners the opportunity to engage with academically challenging content while promoting their growing knowledge of science and engineering and supporting English language acquisition.
Language Building Resources teach students to identify and use cognates to create linguistic bridges between school and home to capitalize on emerging bilingualism.
In addition to the approaching-, on-, and beyond-level support included in the differentiated instruction strategies for each module and lesson, California Inspire Science provides your advanced and gifted learners with challenging activities that identify their Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
Advanced and Gifted Learners
PRINT AND
HANDS-ON RESOURCES
DIGITAL
RESOURCES
PROFESSIONAL
LEARNING
Professional Learning
Print and Hands-On Resources
Digital Resources
Bilingual Poster Packs
Leveled Readers
Student Edition
Collaboration Kits
Science Read Alouds
Teacher's Edition
Investigator Articles
Simulations
Science Content Videos
Drawing Tool
Phenomenon Videos
STEM Videos
Learning-Based Games
Beyond the Classroom
Slide Line Plus
Layer Reveal
Program Implementation Support
Ongoing Pedagogy Support
Investigative Lesson Phenomena
Every lesson begins with an investigative phenomenon that will spark curiosity and help students build understanding so that they can uncover the mystery of the anchoring phenomenon.
Integrating literacy with your science instruction will help your students build literacy skills while learning science. By incorporating high-interest, nonfiction reading content, you will see your students’ close reading and communication skills improve with text-dependent questions, paired readings, arguments, narratives, and collaborative conversations practiced in the context of science that’s fun!
Literacy Integration
STEM Module Project
Every module includes a STEM Module Project. Students will define the problem they are trying to solve and complete research to deepen their understanding. Using the Project Planning Pages, students will think about the related STEM career that was introduced and discuss what real scientists or engineers do to answer science questions as they prepare to solve a problem. After collecting the necessary information, they will sketch models and select the best model to build.
The print materials and Collaboration Kits within California Inspire Science encourage hands-on learning through the California Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Framework.
Print and Hands-on Resources
Teacher's Edition
Teacher's Edition
Featuring four units per grade broken down by module and lesson, your Teacher’s Edition provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide through every module and lesson with the support you need all along the way.
Science Read Alouds
Investigator Articles
Bilingual Poster Packs
Collaboration Kits
Leveled Readers
Student Edition
Student Edition
The interactive Student Editions are organized into four units. Each is broken down by modules and lessons and encourages hands-on learning through the California NGSS Framework.
California Inspire Science Collaboration Kit materials are thoughtfully planned and deliberately organized to support the California NGSS. Each kit is labeled and organized by unit and module to ensure learning will engage students, inspire investigation, and motivate deep thinking about core science concepts.
Collaboration Kits
Bilingual Poster Packs
The bilingual phenomenon posters are a great way to get students thinking about a variety of phenomenon. There are also posters featuring Science and Engineering Practices and the Engineering Design Process as friendly reminders of these key concepts. These bilingual posters include English on one side and Spanish on the other.
Science Read Alouds
Engage the whole group with stories that move from fiction to non-fiction. Available in print or digital for whole-class projection (Grades K–1).
Students in grades 2–6 will engage with informational text and real-world science and engineering stories that are available in approaching-level and on-level.
Investigator Articles
Leveled Readers
The leveled readers within California Inspire Science address the key science concepts in each module.
Students can extend their learning with leveled informational text that includes a paired fiction reading, text-dependent questions, hands-on activities, and graphic organizers to help summarize the selection.
Digital Resources
In addition to the digital versions of each print book, California Inspire Science provides a digital experience designed to make science come to life for your students that features innovative interactives such as videos, simulations, games, and more.
PHENOMENON
VIDEOS
SCIENCE CONTENT
VIDEOS
STEM CAREER CONNECTIONS
AND KIDS VIDEOS
SIMULATIONS
BEYOND THE
CLASSROOM
DRAWING
LAYER
REVEAL
SLIDE LINE
PLUS
Phenomenon Videos
Phenomenon Videos
Phenomenon Videos are used to draw students into the content and provide a visual experience to encourage thinking and collaborative conversations.
Close Video
Science Content Videos
Beyond the Classroom
Simulations
Layer Reveal
STEM Videos
Drawing Tool
Slide Line Plus
Learning-Based Games
Science Content Videos
Science Content Videos bring interesting phenomena to life and enable students to feel like they are a part of the experience.
Real-World STEM Career Connections Videos and STEM Career Kids Videos introduce a variety of interesting science and engineering professions.
STEM Videos
Simulations are used to provide students with a digital experience when a hands-on inquiry activity isn’t easily replicated in the classroom.
Simulations
Drawing Tool
The Drawing Tool allows students to illustrate responses and annotate images for their assignments. Students can also use the drawing tool to analyze and graph data.
Beyond the Classroom
A virtual field trip experience for students accompanied by lesson activities that will help students document their journey.
The Layer Reveal tool enables students to easily visualize cause and effect scenarios and focus on specific areas of an image, one focused section at a time.
Layer Reveal
Slide Line Plus
The Slide Line Plus feature allows students to progress through a storyline of images or highlight focused areas of visuals to concentrate on one element of a schematic at a time.
Digital Learning-Based Games reinforce deeper conceptual science understanding by immersing students in experiential learning.
Learning-Based Games
We know it can be a challenge to implement a new science program with new standards. That’s why California Inspire Science comes with a library of relevant, self-paced, professional learning videos and modules to support you from implementation through instructional progression and mastery—all available 24/7 at your fingertips.
Professional Learning
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
SUPPORT
ONGOING PEDAGOGY
SUPPORT
We know it can be a challenge to implement a new science program with new standards. Implementation support provides everything you need to know to get up to speed on the first day of school.Quick Start eLearning Modules explain program basics to help get you started.Plan, Teach, and Assess eLearning Modules provide deep dives into the program’s instructional model and resources.Digital Platform Support
In the technical support resource library, you will find step-by-step instructions for each of your digital tools to help you feel confident planning, teaching, and assessing in the digital experience.
Program Implementation Support
Program Implementation Support
Ongoing Pedagogy Support
Ongoing Pedagogy Support
With California Inspire Science, you will find a wide range of resources on key instructional and pedagogical topics, including videos from our program authors and consultants—all available 24/7 at your fingertips.STEM Classroom Videos that model lessons from real classrooms.Science Preconceptions Videos that review common preconceptions and strategies to overcome them.Instructional Coaching Videos discuss best practice strategies and the "why" behind the success.Teacher Activity Videos that show planning tips and expected results to help with hands-on activity time.Science Pedagogy Micro-Courses designed for your professional learning community with facilitation guides for both self-guided or small-group courses.Inquiry Rewind Videos show a step-by-step look at the inquiry activity. These videos are great for previewing and revisiting hands-on learning without any prep work.
EXPERIENCE A MODULE
California Inspire Science’s phenomena-driven 5E lessons are designed to provoke critical thinking and spark creative problem-solving. At the beginning of each module, students will be introduced to a STEM Module Project that they will complete at the end of the module, with touch points at the end of each lesson for project planning.
Experience a Module
California Inspire Science® provides a phenomenon-driven, collaborative, learning experience designed to spark students’ interests and empower them to ask questions.
Module Opener
Module Wrap-Up
Explore a Lesson
Experience at a Glance
MODULE
OPENER
LESSON LAUNCH
SCIENCE PROBE
THE FIVE E
INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL
STEM MODULE
PROJECT COMPLETION
STEM MODULE
PROJECT WRAP-UP
MODULE OPENER
Inspire curiosity with a real-world phenomenon that encourages students to ask questions and investigate the world around them. The module-level anchoring phenomenon will uncover students’ initial ideas, creating a foundation for them to see how their thinking evolved as they progressed through the module.
ENCOUNTER THE
PHENOMENON
STEM MODULE PROJECT LAUNCH:
STEM MODULE PROJECT PLANNING
STEM MODULE PROJECT LAUNCH:
STEM MODULE PROJECT
The Module Opener begins the inquiry process by presenting an anchoring phenomenon to explore throughout the module. Lesson-level investigative phenomena and inquiry activities help students build a deeper understanding of the anchoring module phenomenon.
Encounter the Phenomenon
Encounter the Phenomenon
STEM Project Launch
STEM Module Project Planning
STEM Module Project Planning
Students in grades 2–6 will use the Project Planning Pages at the end of each lesson to see how their learning can be applied to the STEM Module Project they’ll complete at the end of the module. Students will define the problem they’re trying to solve and complete research to deepen their understanding. They will think about the related STEM career that was introduced, and they will discuss what real scientists or engineers do to answer science questions as they prepare to solve a problem. After collecting the necessary information, they will sketch models and select the best one to build.
Starting in the second grade, STEM Module Projects will begin with a launch. Students will learn about the project they’ll complete at the end of the module, and how the lessons in the module will help them in their planning. Your students will start asking questions, setting goals, and preparing to experience the engineering design process like a real scientist or engineer.
STEM Project Launch
Every lesson of California Inspire Science begins with a formative assessment science probe created in partnership with Page Keeley M.Ed., a nationally-renowned expert specializing in the use of formative assessment within science curricula to teach for conceptual change.
Science probes present a real-world phenomenon or core concept to promote student thinking and discussion while informing your instruction by revealing what commonly-held preconceptions and initial ideas your students bring to their learning.
Lesson Launch Science Probe
Lesson Launch Science Probe
5E LESSONS
The phenomena-driven 5E lessons within California Inspire Science are designed to provoke critical thinking and spark creative problem-solving.
ENGAGE: ENCOUNTER THE
PHENOMENON
EXPLORE
EXPLAIN
ELABORATE
EVALUATE: STEM MODULE
PROJECT PLANNING
The Engage phase will inspire students’ curiosity with a real-world, investigative phenomenon that relates to the anchoring module phenomenon.
As students progress through the lesson, they will begin to reveal answers to the questions they generated and will revisit their initial thinking and see how it changes as they learn new information.
This allows students to correlate all phenomenon throughout the module as a common theme.
Engage
Engage
Evaluate
Explain
Elaborate
Explore
The Explore phase lets your students get involved and investigate the phenomenon through a related, common experience. They will carry out an investigation, collect and interpret data, and begin to reveal answers to their questions and build understanding using different types of inquiry activities.
Explore
This phase of the lesson model provides students with an array of informational text, supportive resources, and interactive activities so they can synthesize information and convey their understanding of the concepts.
Students will practice close-reading strategies as they develop their skills.
Explain
In the Elaborate phase, students apply knowledge to new situations to develop a deeper understanding of the lesson concepts.
Elaborate
In the Evaluate phase of the instructional model, you are able to gauge student progress toward achieving lesson objectives. This is a time to assess students’ new understanding and abilities.
Students will revisit and revise their original answers to the Page Keeley science probe while reflecting on how their thinking has changed.
Evaluate
STEM Project Completion
STEM Project Completion
As the module comes to a close, students will complete a final culminating STEM Module Project to demonstrate their understanding of the performance expectations in the module. Through the completion of the project, students apply the three dimensions of learning to solve a problem related to the module phenomenon.
Revisit the Phenomenon
Students revisit the anchoring module phenomenon in the Module Wrap-Up and answer the phenomenon question using evidence from what they have learned throughout the module and the STEM Module Project. This allows your students to make vital connections and synthesize what they've learned through the investigative lesson phenomena to explain the anchoring phenomenon they encountered at the beginning of the module.
Revisit the Phenomenon
STEM Project Launch
Encounter the Phenomenon
Engage
Explain
Evaluate
Lesson Launch Science Probe
Explore
Elaborate
Next Generation Assessment Strategies
California Inspire Science includes a variety of formative and summative assessment options to support teachers with differentiation strategies and support students on their journey to master performance expectations.
Following are the types of assessment resources within California Inspire Science, found online and in the print Student Editions.
California Inspire Science includes a variety of formative and summative assessment options to support teachers with differentiation strategies and support students on their journey to master performance expectations.
Following are the types of assessment resources within California Inspire Science, found online and in the print Student Editions.
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Formative assessment, embedded at many points throughout each module and lesson, facilitates student reflection on their thinking (metacognition) and allows teachers to dynamically differentiate instruction. Following are the types of formative assessment resources you'll find in California Inspire Science, found online and in the print Student Editions.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Science Probes
Science Probes
Created in partnership with Page Keeley M.Ed, these Science Probes will present real-world phenomena or core concepts to promote student thinking and discussion. By revealing what commonly-held preconceptions and initial ideas your students bring to their learning you inform your instruction to better meet the needs of your students.
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER)
Talk About It
Inquiry Activities
Three-Dimensional Thinking Questions
With the CER Framework found in certain lessons, students will make claims and document their reasoning during the Explore phase. Later in the lesson, they will have the opportunity to add evidence and adjust their claims as needed.
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER)
Students will encounter questions that address at least two of the three dimensions of the California Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and check their progress with the Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs), Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs), and performance expectations.
Three-Dimensional Thinking Questions
Throughout each lesson, student-initiated or teacher-led Talk About It prompts encourage discussion and enable students to demonstrate their understanding of the phenomena, DCIs, or CCCs.
Talk About It
In each inquiry activity (two to three per lesson), students will encounter formative assessment questions that help build three-dimensional thinking.
Inquiry Activities
SCIENCE
PROBES
CLAIM, EVIDENCE,
REASONING (CER)
THREE-DIMENSIONAL
THINKING QUESTIONS
TALK
ABOUT IT
INQUIRY
ACTIVITIES
Inquiry Activities
Three-Dimensional Thinking Questions
Science Probes
Talk About It
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER)
Module Test
STEM Module Project
Module Pretest
Vocabulary Check
Lesson Check
CAST Practice Guide
Summative assessment tools at the module and lesson level help ensure lasting learning and alignment of student skills to the Performance Expectations. Following are the summative assessment tools found in California Inspire Science, both online and in the print student editions.
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
The Module Pretests, found at the beginning of each module in grades two through five, assess prerequisite knowledge of Disciplinary Core Ideas from prior grades to evaluate student readiness for the module.
Module Pretest
Module Pretest
Lesson Check
CAST Practice Guide
Module Test
Vocabulary Check
At the end of the lessons, students will demonstrate their understanding of at least two of the three dimensions of California NGSS to develop three-dimensional thinking skills.
Found in every lesson online, Lesson Checks determine how students are building a progression of learning toward the performance expectations.
Lesson Check
Found at the end of each module online, Module Tests evaluate student proficiency against the Performance Expectations with multiple choice, extended response, constructed response, and performance-task items.
Module Test
With each STEM Module Project, found at the end of every module, students will complete performance-based rubrics and answer summative questions to demonstrate how they've applied their knowledge and understanding of the performance expectations to their project.
Through online interactives, students practice and check their understanding of scientific language. Immediate feedback from the system is provided.
Vocabulary Check
CAST Practice Guide
Featuring guided and independent practice for students and scoring rubrics for teachers, the CAST Practice Guide will help prepare your students for the California Science Test with performance tasks at both the lesson and module levels.
MODULE
PRETEST
THREE DIMENSIONAL
THINKING QUESTIONS
LESSON
CHECK
MODULE
TEST
STEM MODULE
PROJECT
VOCABULARY
CHECK
CAST PRACTICE
GUIDE
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STEM Module Project Planning
Revisit the Phenomenon
Experience at a Glance
California Inspire Science’s phenomena-driven 5E lessons are designed to provoke critical thinking and spark creative problem-solving. At the beginning of each module, students will be introduced to a STEM Module Project that they will complete at the end of the module, with touch points at the end of each lesson for project planning.
With its user-friendly instructional model that blends the 5E approach with key California Next Generation Science Standards goals, California Inspire Science makes the transition to CA NGSS easy and exciting while helping you ensure that all students are actively building mastery of the performance expectations.
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