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Science: bit.ly/sdusdscience

STEAM: bit.ly/sdusdsteam

Please share photos and other exciting news from your class with us! We would love to feature it here, on our site and on social media.

The Environmental Health & Safety Office can provide safety training to your science teachers and asks that any site wanting this type of training to contact the Safety Compliance Technician (SCT) that oversees that site (email is best).

The Chemical Classification List was updated in 2019 and is attached here. The Safety Office asks that any chemicals that a science teacher is wanting to purchase that are NOT on the Approved list to contact the safety office safetyoffice@sandi.net to request a Product Evaluation, please include the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for the specific chemical they want evaluated and the lesson plan the chemical will be used in. Once we complete the evaluation we will notify them via email.

Justice-Centered STEM Education" Dr. Okhee Lee shared a call to action with our STEAM Teachers and Leaders for a more justice-centered approach to STEM learning that might inspire some new ideas as we all engage students in learning this year.

Deliveries have begun for the science materials selected by your school site last Spring. A resource site will be available and shared next week.

• We have UTK units available this year!
• 5th grade Computer Science pilot open to anyone interested: CS + Apps

• As always, STEAM curriculum is open to anyone who may wish to explore and use it for the next school year for science: bit.ly/sdusdsteam (Click on the "Curriculum by Grade Level" tab).

Mystery Science has added more lessons for us this year!

Be sure to check out the new lessons and unit splits for your grade as you plan for fall:

• Kindergarten: a unit split
• 1st grade: two new lessons & two unit splits
• 3rd grade: three new lessons & a new unit
• 4th grade: one new lesson

You can find more info here.

Amplify Curriculum Specialists have mapped out the alignment to our critical concepts. The maps are linked below.
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade

FYI: Amplify Student workbooks are available in limited amount. If you are out of student workbooks we have a limited supply of workbooks to assist with restocking! Please email Tali @ tlerner@sandi.net for details

Once your courses are assigned in PowerSchool, you will have access through Clever (the systems can take 24-48 hours to sync) - until then, you can access through the demo account: https://bit.ly/amplifyca

Updates to GVC are now posted! Check out the new HS GVC Page on our Website!

Our Science Department has curated online textbooks for Biology: The Living Earth, Chemistry in the Earth System/ Honors Chemistry in the Earth System and Physics of the Universe, aligned to the California Framework for NGSS and our GVC courses. These online text resources are student facing materials to accompany the GVC which is available on CANVAS and on our website.

A district wide waiver for Williams Act was submitted, so that these updated resources will suffice in lieu of the currently adopted text. To qualify for Williams sufficiency the flexbooks must be downloaded onto student Chromebooks so they can be accessed by students at anytime. This screencast will walk you (and your students) through the download process.

• Biology: The Living Earth Textbook PDF and Online: https://ck12.co/sWAk
• Chemistry in the Earth System Textbook PDF and Web: https://ck12.co/VKfW
• Honors Chemistry in the Earth System Textbook PDF and Web: https://ck12.co/VKfW
• Physics of the Universe Textbook PDF and Web: https://ck12.co/YAZZ

Please complete this form to indicate your department's choice of instructional materials: https://forms.gle/kXuR1c7d4r892xzf8

We've compiled some sample language from many different sources that you may use or adapt to meet your site needs. The sample language in this document has been collected from SDUSD teachers and the SDUSD Science Fellows. Linked here

Suggestion from a colleague: Consider increasing awareness and understanding of Proficiency Scales by asking students (and parents?) to compose a proficiency scale for something they love- making a pizza or riding a bicycle, etc. Here is an example for making a cake.

• Access is available through Clever.
• Check out their Back-to-School landing page for all things related to the busy back-to-school season.
• If you would like to learn more - you can attend a free "Getting Started" Workshop: Dates, times and links to register can be found here.

As you gear up for this new school year, an Anonymous Funder is committed to supporting teachers of color like you help their students learn and connect with the world of math & science. To do that, they’re doubling donations to STEM projects from teachers of color!

Submit a project under $1,000 for supplies you need to help your kids become the next Galileo or Mae Jemison, and an Anonymous Funder will double any donations you receive, while funds last. You know what your students need most to engage with STEM concepts — whatever it is, this generous partner will help you get it twice as fast.

• Submit my project

Cleaning out your room and have leftover supplies you don't need anymore? Still holding to old supplies from a course you don't teach anymore? One teacher's leftovers are another teacher's treasure!
Look at our new BUY NOTHING page, submit the form with your un-needed supplies and look at the available supplies from other teachers!

https://sites.google.com/a/sandi.net/ngss-draft-lessons/buy-nothing-sdusd

We recently accepted a donation of 9 boxes (100 pipettes each) of plastic transfer pipettes. If you would like 1 or more boxes please contact Sarah Moynes smoynes@sandi.net and I will be happy to put them in school mail for you.

Did you find a great curriculum resource? Participated in a great research opportunity? Do you enjoy reading one of the books we offered teachers? Had a great PLC or PD meeting that you want to recommend for other teachers?

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 !

Khan Academy is not just for math and today we’re excited to introduce hundreds of new pieces of middle school science content so that Khan Academy is your 1-stop-shop for foundational skill practice in science.

From climate change to genetics, our new biology and Earth & space science courses offer hundreds of exercises and articles that are all aligned to discipline specific Next Generation Science Standards.

Learn about the new content

These new courses are all mastery learning-based and like everything else on Khan Academy, they are free!

You'd think that atoms bonding with other atoms would mean they're being friendly, but really they steal each other's electrons.

How ionic.

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