The Tigard-Tualatin School District goal is to make science and the scientific process real for students. Towards that end, we as a district, are working to develop resources to support teachers working with their students. Our belief is that we do not teach technology, we use technology to enhance our curriculum and technology enhancement of the science curriculum is a wonderful fit. Our district has worked hard to align our science curriculum to the state standards. The curriculum features hands on kits that have been developed for each of the concept areas.
Teachers check the kits out to use during their instruction.
The kits include lesson plans, worksheets, activities and experiments. As the District Instructional Technology Specialist, K-5, I have created science link pages to support the instruction of the science concept areas. The links on these pages have been selected on the basis of content and level appropriateness. All links are identified as being student or teacher appropriate. The links are checked and updated on a regular basis so that they will be useful in the classroom.