The latest updates on FOSSweb (by date):
08/12/2021 New 2021 Grade 5 Benchmark Assessments
For this School Year 2021-2022, there are new benchmark assessment masters and coding guides for Grade 5 modules:
- Earth and Sun
- Living Systems
- Mixtures and Solutions
The previous School Year 2020 assessments remain so you have a choice. You can use the new 2021-2022 assessments OR you can continue to use the assessments from last school year. Both years are available in print and online on FOSSmap.
- Coding Guide updates for Schoolyear 2021-22 for all Grs. 1-8 modules (except Grade 5. See above announcement for complete information on Grade 5 assessments.)
- Word Wall cards divided by Investigation/Part for Grades 2-5 modules.
- Flash vocabulary component updated in all Interactive Whiteboard SMART files for Next Generation and Third Edition Grades K-5 modules.
07/29/2021 - Word Wall Cards with illustrations, split by Investigation and Part for the following modules:
- Grade K:
- Animals Two by Two
- Materials and Motion
- Trees and Weather
- Grade 1:
- Air and Weather
- Plants and Animals
- Sound and Light
05/20/2021 - Word Wall Cards with illustrations updated for the Grade 1: Plants and Animals module
- Captions for Teacher Prep Videos for the following STEM Courses:
- Grs. PK: Observing Nature
- Grs. 1-2: Forces in Action
- Grs. 5: Sound Design
- Captions for Alternative Investigation 3 (Hissing Cockroaches) Teacher Prep Video in Gr. 3 Structures of Life
05/06/2021 - New Student Videos for Remote Learning for Grade 3: Structures of Life Inv. 3 Meet the Crayfish
- Inv. 3.1: Crayfish Structures
- Inv. 3.2: Characteristics and Adaptation
- Word Wall Cards with illustrations updated for the Grade K: Materials and Motion module
- Spanish Teaching Slides with anchor phenomena information updated for the following modules:
- Grade K:
- Grade 1:
- Grade 2:
- Grade 3:
- Motion and Matter
- Structures of Life
- Water and Climate
- Grade 4:
- Soils, Rocks, and Landforms
- Environments
- Grade 5:
All Grades K-5 teaching slides in English and Spanish have now been updated with anchor phenomena information. - All Google Earth™ tours in Next Generation and Second Edition Middle School Earth History courses now include browser-version compatible files
04/22/2021 - New Student Videos for Remote Learning for Grade 5: Living Systems Inv. 2 Plant Nutrition
- Introduce Wheat
- Plant Wheat Seeds
- Observe Wheat Plants after 3 Days
- Observe Wheat Plants after 6 Days
- Observe Wheat Plants on Day 7
- Observe Wheat Plants on Day 10
- New Student Videos for Remote Learning for Grade K: Animals Two by Two Inv. 3, Big and Little Worms
- Part 1: The Structure of Redworms
- Part 2: Redworm Behavior
- Part 3: Comparing Redworms to Night Crawlers
- Teaching Slides with anchor phenomena information updated for the following modules:
- Grade K:
- Materials and Motion (Spanish)
- Grade 1:
- Plants and Animals (Spanish)
- Grade 4:
- Transcripts added to the following Teacher Prep videos:
- Forces in Action
- Sound Design
- Weather and Seasons
- Observing Nature
- Structures of Life
04/04/2021 - New Teacher Prep Videos for Investigation 2-4 for the STEM module Forces in Action
- New Teacher Prep Videos for STEM module Sound Design
- New Student Video for Grade 2: Insects and Plants: Investigation 1.2: Pupa, Larva, Adult
- Updated assessments in STEM module Sound Design
- Teaching Slides with anchor phenomena information updated for the following modules:
- Grade K:
- Trees and Weather (Spanish)
- Animals Two by Two (Spanish)
- Grade 1:
- Grade 3:
- Grade 5:
- Earth and Sun
- Living Systems (Spanish)
Please visit the
Previous Updates to view FOSSweb updates of the previous year, including information about hybrid-learning resources developed in SY20-21.