Print

Printed teacher’s guides are available for each unit and can be purchased from Amplify (speak to your representative or go to amplify.com/contact for more information). Printed teacher’s guides are especially useful in schools and classrooms where device availability or internet connectivity are a challenge—or for teachers who simply prefer to review their materials on paper.

Digital

The teacher’s guide is also available digitally, by accessing the science curriculum website (learning.amplify.com)

When teachers access the Teacher’s Guide digitally via the curriculum website, they gain the convenience of being able to navigate directly to content they wish to see, flip between units quickly, and access a suite of digital tools. In addition to unit, lesson, and activity-level resources (detailed in the links here on the left), teachers also have:

• Videos: Videos appear in many units across the program. Whenever a video is present, the teacher projects it to the students with her own device.
• Lesson projections: Most lessons in Amplify Science include a variety of images that are projectable by the teacher to the students. These images can range from discussion prompts, to images related to unit content, to completed set-ups for a particular investigation. All lesson projections are available for download as a PDF file. Images can be projected by the teacher directly from the PDF file, or via a document camera.
• Digital tools: Teachers have access to all student-facing technology, including digital practice apps, simulations, and modeling tools. To learn more about student-facing technology, see the “Flexible, blended program” section.

• Classwork: When students submit their work through the curriculum website (detailed in the “Flexible, blended program” section), all submissions are stored in the Classwork app. Besides storing all student work, Classwork is also a place where teachers can provide a grade and targeted feedback for students for various activities. Students receive these grades and/or feedback instantaneously, facilitating an effective teacher-student feedback loop.
• Reporting: Teachers gain insight into the progress and growth of each of their students through students’ performance on unit assessments. After students take the assessments online, teachers then get access to several elegant data visualizations and features in Reporting, such as:
  • Automatic assignment of students to differentiated content based on their responses to the mid-unit Critical Juncture assessment.
  • At-a-glance graphs that show class performance on the Pre-unit, Critical Juncture, and End-of-Unit assessments.
  • At-a-glance view of individual student performance on each of the assessments, including correct/incorrect responses and how the student’s selections compare to the rest of the class.
  • Item-level analysis, showing the spread of student responses to each of the multiple choice options for every question on the assessment.
• Classroom management tools: Teachers are able to direct student screens to specific lessons in the curriculum through the Start Class feature. Furthermore, teachers can regain students’ attention through the Eyes Up feature when students are engaging with lesson content digitally. Each of these tools is meant as a supplemental aid to help teachers in managing a classroom with students on devices.

Downloadable PDF

Finally, all unit Teacher’s Guides are also available as PDFs. These PDFs can be generated automatically through the curriculum website by pressing the “Generate Printable Teacher’s Guide” button. After pressing the button, the teacher has the option of either generating a PDF of the entire Teacher’s Guide, with all unit-level resources and overview documentation, or generating only the Lesson Guides, with the lesson and activity-level supports described in the subsections beneath “Teacher’s Guide” in the menu to the left here. A benefit of generating a PDF of the Teacher’s Guide is that it makes searching through the unit easy. Depending on the PDF viewer and device, a teacher could search the PDF for a few key terms or words and easily see where in the unit the word or term appears.