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We are excited to welcome you back for the 2023-2024 school year! The beginning of the school year is such a special time - the cool, new, school supplies are exhilarating, classrooms are clean and full of possibility and everyone has a fresh start. Happy New Year, Friends! In this brief newsletter you will find resource highlights for each grade level. Please forward this to any new colleagues!

🧡💚💙 Unified Science Team

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Visit the STEAM website: bit.ly/sdusdsteam to gain access to curriculum, professional learning, and more.

We are happy to announce that the district has been able to renew Mystery Science access for one additional year! You will have access for 23-24 but the district does not have plans to renew after this school year. Need help accessing? Click here. Sites wishing to continue Mystery Science access beyond the 23-24 school year will need to secure site funding to do so.

These units are meant to support the transition to NGSS in San Diego Unified. You may feel like these units look very short - the decreased content coverage in elementary allows you time to support your students in exploring and building their own science knowledge. These materials are in draft form and are still being revised. Click here to check them out!

Join us! 8/18 2-4 pm We will host a "garage sale" where you can swap (& shop) for your (non-hazardous) secondary science supplies. Please RSVP here!

Use the spreadsheet linked here to request support for your opening department meetings in secondary science! We will be happy to attend! Please include the specific time and note any specific objectives or agenda items. For example we could with planning for SBL, thinking about engagement, alignment to critical concepts, meaningful assessments, using your Title 1 supplies etc.

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• Video Library From full product guides to bite-size how-tos, the PASCO Video Library hosts a variety of media to help you maximize your PASCO solutions. Enter a product in the search bar to view its video resources.
• Software Help Guides Bookmark these handy software guides for easy-access to answers during class time. Each guide is fully searchable, making it easy to find step-by-step solutions to all your software questions.
• Knowledge BaseThe Knowledge Base is a treasure trove of resources for your most specific product questions. It's consistently updated by our Technical Support team and includes answers to all types of FAQs - both new and old!

• Welcome to Amplify Science page - introduction and getting started resources
• Most recent Amplify Science Newsletter
• Back to basics training recoreding and resources summer 2022
• 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! Available through Destiny.
  

If your school is engaged with OpenSciEd, or you would like to explore the resources, they are available here: https://www.openscied.org/middleschool/

We are putting together a series of engineering activity cards for Middle School Students. We will have an activity card/ week available soon. The first few are linked below, check them out! More to come in our next newsletter.

• PASCO Microclimates
• LEGO Back to Back
• LEGO Breakdance
• LEGO Driving Around

• Click here for Biology, Chemistry and Physics GVC.
• GVC stands for Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum, here you will find daily lesson plans and slides created by and for SDUSD Science Teachers, aligned to the CA Framework for NGSS.

• Subscribe to the SDCOE newsletter, Science News and Updates using this link

• Use this link to subscribe to the CASE Newsletter.

• Instructional Technology Department http://bit.ly/sdusdtechtips