Lesson-level resources
Every lesson in the Amplify Science Teacher’s Guide begins with a “Lesson Brief” that contains the following information intended to help teachers prepare:
- Lesson Overview: A one-paragraph overview of the lesson and what students will learn, and a pacing guide for the activities in the lesson. Also clearly identifies the Anchor and investigative and/or everyday phenomena explored in the lesson.
- Materials & Preparation: A list of steps to prepare the classroom for today’s class, as well as recommendations on how a teacher can best prepare themselves for the class (e.g., “Read the Science Background document before today’s class.”). This section identifies:
- Materials to be used in the lesson.
- Preparation to be done before the day of the lesson, immediately before the lesson, between class prep, and at the end of the day.
- Digital Resources: Quick access to all digital resources used in the lesson, including media embedded in the lesson, multilingual glossaries, PDFs of all projected images, the Investigation Notebook pages related to this lesson, and more.
- Vocabulary: A list of vocabulary words used in this lesson.
- Differentiation: Research- based recommendations that are specific to the lesson’s objectives, including:
- Embedded supports for diverse learners
- Potential challenges in this lesson
- Specific differentiation strategies for English learners
- Specific differentiation strategies for students who need more support
- Specific differentiation strategies for students who need more challenge
- Standards: Quick access to the science and Common Core standards that are targeted in this lesson.
- Downloadable Lesson Guide: From the Lesson Brief, teachers can add notes to themselves, or generate a PDF version of the Lesson Guide. This download will extract much of the content from the lesson out of the curriculum website and into a printable PDF, in case teachers prefer a hard copy (Note: Pre-printed Teacher’s Guides are also available through Amplify.).