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.
• Classroom Slides: Every lesson in Amplify Science comes with slides in both Google Slides and Powerpoint format to help guide teachers and their students through the lesson
• 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.

• Digital student books: In addition to the physical copies of the titles that come in K–5 unit kits, the teacher has access to digital versions of each one, as well. Teachers can use these digital version to project the book to the class, if desired.

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.