Modules that engage students and teachers in enduring experiences that lead to deeper understanding of the natural and designed world.
In the Air and Weather Module, students turn their focus to the sky to make observations that will heighten their awareness, curiosity, and understanding of Earth's dynamic atmosphere and the observable patterns of objects in the sky.
Animals Two by Two provides young students with close and personal interaction with some common land and water animals.
A diverse mix of empirical experiences and theoretical models helps students construct a solid basic understanding of the composition of their world and the interactions that maintain and transform it.
The 12-week Diversity of Life Course introduces students to the big picture of life on Earth.
The Earth and Sun Module focuses on Earth and the Sun as a system. Students collect and analyze shadow data.
In the Earth History Course, students read evidence from rock, landforms, and fossils to tell the geological story of a place.
Electricity and magnetism are some of the most fascinating physics phenomena to study in a middle school classroom. In the six-week FOSS Electromagnetic Force Course, students will measure the force of invisible magnetic fields, learn to build a circuit, design an electromagnet, and explain the energy transfers that make it all possible.
Students explore the concepts of energy and change, waves, and energy transfer in the Energy Module.
Through the study of different ecosystems, students build an understanding of the relationships between organisms and their environments.
Explore speed, acceleration, gravity, and collision physics.
In the Heredity and Adaptation Course, students explore the evidence, including the fossil record, the similarities between past and present organisms, the genetic principles of inheritance, and how natural selection produces adaptations that lead to changes in species and eventually the creation of new species.
In the Human Systems Interactions Course, students tackle big questions about body systems and the environmental factors that affect them. What happen when the body is attacked by an invader or an organ system malfunctions? How do cells get the resources they need to live? How do cells gain access to the energy stored in energy-rich compounds? How do systems support the human organism as it senses and interacts with the environment?
Explore life science core ideas dealing with structure and function of living things, growth and development of plants and animals, interactions of organisms with their environment, and biodiversity of organisms on land and in water.
Take a look at life at every level of organization, biosphere to individual organisms, to acknowledge that it is complex, involving multiple parts working together in systems to maintain the viability and vigor of the system.
Provide experiences that heighten students' awareness, curiosity, and understanding of the physical world as they observe and compare the properties of kinds of wood, paper, and fabric by performing a number of tests and interactions.
Mixtures and Solutions introduces students to the properties and behaviors of substances and changes in substances—fundamental ideas in chemistry.
Motion and Matter provides grade 3 students with physical sciences core ideas dealing with forces and interactions, matter and its interactions, and with engineering design.
Investigate the observable structures and properties of earth materials, weathering and erosion of Earth's surface, natural sources of water, and how to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water on Earth.
Develop a historical sense of humankind's exploration of the cosmos and delve into the modern questions surrounding space exploration.
Students observe structures of plants and discover ways to propagate new plants from mature plants. Design terrariums and provide for the needs of both plants and animals living together in the classroom.
Learn that every organism has a role to play in its ecosystem, understand how ecosystems work, what they need to remain healthy, and explore how changes to one part of the ecosystem affect others.
The Soils, Rocks, and Landforms Module provides students with firsthand experiences with soils, rocks, and minerals, and modeling experiences to study changes to rocks and landforms at Earth's surface.
The Solids and Liquids Module provides students with physical science core ideas dealing with matter and its interactions and engineering design.
The Sound and Light Module provides students with experiences to develop an understanding of how to observe and manipulate sound and light.
The Structures of Life Module consists of investigations dealing with the big ideas in life science.
The Trees and Weather Module provides systematic investigations of trees and leaves over the seasons to bring students to a better understanding of trees' place at school and in the community.
Water and Climate provides students with experiences to explore the properties of water, the water cycle and weather, and how humans use water as a natural resource.
The Waves Course proceeds from the most concrete observations, those of physical properties of mechanical waves, to the most abstract concepts, by which students develop a model of electromagnetic waves.
The Weather and Water Course focuses on Earth's atmosphere, weather, and water.