Amplify Science K–5 Review Toolkit
Simplify your science curriculum review journey with the Amplify Science Review Toolkit. Within this Toolkit, you’ll find program overview information, classroom videos, evaluation rubrics, and a free sample unit.
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What is Amplify Science?
A collaboration between the curriculum experts at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and instructional technology experts at Amplify, Amplify Science is a comprehensive program that blends literacy-rich activities, hands-on investigations, and interactive digital tools. Amplify Science empowers students to think, read, write, and argue like 21st-century scientists and engineers. Highly adaptable and user-friendly, the program gives schools and individual teachers flexibility with their technology resources and preferences.
The program is backed by gold-standard research and is currently used by thousands of teachers across the US.
See Amplify Science in action
Amplify Science in Action: a week in the life (K–5)
What does a week in the life of an Amplify Science teacher look like? We asked Keneisha Charleston, a second-grade teacher from Chicago Public Schools, to talk through an example of what one week of using Amplify Science is like in her classroom.
In Amplify Science, students take on the role of a scientist or engineer to actively investigate compelling phenomena through engaging hands-on investigations, immersive digital simulations, comprehensive reading and writing activities, and lively classroom discussions.
See what Amplify Science looks like in a classroom with more topical videos:
- Hands-on investigations
- Literacy integration
- Simulations and modeling tools
- Classroom discussions
- Science vocabulary
Dig deeper into the curriculum
Amplify Science is rooted in the research-based Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize model of learning. Students engage with science and engineering practices, figure out disciplinary core ideas, and utilize and apply crosscutting concepts in multiple modalities across thoughtful, structured lessons, all centered around engaging anchor phenomena. Learn more about how a unique mix of activities and modalities provide students with multiple points of entry into the instruction.
- Program overview
- Phenomena and unit storyline
- Hands-on investigations
- Literacy Rich Science Instruction
- Digital Simulations
Attend a webinar
Join the Lawrence Hall of Science for a series of free webinars! Curriculum experts will explore why embedded engineering and phenomena-based science instruction deliver results, with examples from Amplify Science.
Webinars are scheduled throughout the spring, and you can always sign to watch a recording if you’re unable to attend live.
Review rubrics
Using an evaluation rubric to review? Take a look at our filled-out TIME and EQuIP rubrics.
Test drive the program
Click submit to access a free sample unit from our elementary curriculum.