For your review: Amplify Science K–5 sample materials
Amplify Science is built from the ground up for three-dimensional learning. Below you’ll find samples and resources to guide you in your review.
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Grade Kindergarten
Grade 1
Animal and Plant Defenses
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Science for a diverse world
We live in a richly diverse world. Yet, historically, our educational systems have catered to a narrow range of students, particularly in STEM education. The result has been a lack of equitable opportunities for many—including students of color, English learners, disabled students, girls and young women, foster children and youth, and students experiencing poverty.
For your review: Amplify Science 6–8 sample materials
Amplify Science is built from the ground up for three-dimensional learning. Below you’ll find samples and resources to guide you in your review.
See how it works
Explore the digital program
Explore sample print materials
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Additional features
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
We live in a richly diverse world. Yet, historically, our educational systems have catered to a narrow range of students, particularly in STEM education. The result has been a lack of equitable opportunities for many—including students of color, English learners, disabled students, girls and young women, foster children and youth, and students experiencing poverty.
Welcome, Minneapolis Public Schools reviewers! We're so glad you're here.
Watch this short video below for a quick guide to reviewing your science materials, then explore how our approach shapes your Minneapolis Public Schools students into scientists and engineers.
View Minneapolis Public Schools Science 6-8 recommended scope and sequence
Watch this first to help guide your review.
Amplify Science is backed by gold-standard research.
UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science—the authors behind Amplify Science—developed the Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize approach, and gold-standard research shows that it works. Our own efficacy research is pretty exciting, too.
Students using the Do-Talk-Read-Write approach saw clear growth along learning progressions from Pre-Unit to End-of-Unit Assessments.
Students using the Do-Talk-Read-Write method achieved higher mastery of science vocabulary terms than their peers.
Students using the Do-Talk-Read-Write approach saw their science content knowledge grow more than that of their peers who were using a business-as-usual approach.
Hands-on learning is an essential part of Amplify Science for Minneapolis Public Schools.
Hands-on learning is integrated into every unit through hands-on investigations that are critical to achieving the unit’s learning goals and deepening students’ understanding of the unit phenomena.
As part of Amplify Science’s Animal and Plant Relationships unit, students take on the role of plant scientists to figure out why there are no new chalta trees growing in the Bengal Tiger Reserve in India. In this video featuring Lesson 3.2, second-grade students from Chicago Public Schools are engaging with a hands-on model in which they simulate animal dispersal of seeds, measure how many seeds were dispersed to places where the seeds are likely to grow, and analyze their results.
Let's immerse Minneapolis Public Schools students in reading, writing, and arguing like real scientists and engineers.
Literacy is an integral part of science. While practicing scientists actively investigate the natural world, large parts of their investigations involve reading, writing, listening, and speaking in order to obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the natural world. Scientists read about and connect their work to the work of other scientists, explain their findings, and communicate ideas to a variety of audiences.
In the Student Investigation Notebooks, students record data and observations, make drawings, and complete writing tasks. Each notebook also includes scaffolding supports for reading and writing activities.
Each Amplify Science unit includes multiple student articles, which are custom-written by the Lawrence Hall of Science.
For science that's too small, large, slow, distant, dangerous, or difficult to see or manipulate directly.
Developed exclusively for Amplify Science, digital simulations are interactive, virtual worlds that allow students to discover and construct understanding of science concepts and phenomena. Sims provide opportunities to explore scientific phenomena that might otherwise be challenging to investigate because they are too small, large, slow, distant, dangerous, or difficult to manipulate directly.
Powerful digital simulations for every unit.
What sets Amplify Science apart for Minneapolis Public Schools
