SD Unified Science
July 2025
July 2025
Unified Science sparks curiosity and creativity, empowering the next generation to enact change in our local and global communities.
Have you heard about AB 285?
The bill amended Sections 51210 and 51220 of the California Education Code to require that courses of study for science in grades 1–12 include material on the causes and effects of climate change, and on the methods to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
You can read more here! and check out this folder of resources
Exploring Environmental Justice Using Data 2025
Meet enthusiastic teachers from across Southern California, engage with science experts, and identify culturally relevant phenomena that highlight environmental justice issues and can be explored with data during classroom instruction.
This multi-day virtual professional learning series will focus on leveraging environmental and data literacy within science to highlight environmental justice issues.
Audience: Grade 6-12 teachers
A stipend of $1,000 will be available to teachers who participate in all of the professional learning sessions and activities, as well as show evidence of classroom implementation.
Mystery Science
Virtual Field Trips | Discovery Education - These trips are virtual events that take students to locations they might not otherwise be able to visit. These are interactive and engaging virtual experiences that span across various destinations and align with a variety of subject areas.
Mystery Science Updates for the 25-26 SY - All went live on June 14, 2025.
We want to hear your recommendations and share them with other science teachers!
If you have a favorite curriculum, reading, activity, or PLC plan that you want to recommend to other teachers we want to capture a short (1-3 minutes) video of you describing it and share it with other unified science teachers!
Email tlerner@sandi.net and one of us will come to visit you and record a short clip !