What Does Equity and Access Mean To Us? Put simply: Every Student, Every Standard. We believe that every student deserves Twig, and as a result we have worked hard to ensure that all students, regardless of learning needs, are able to experience the magic of Twig—learning and progressing alongside their peers.  In this section, we […]

Research—and classroom experience—makes clear that student listening comprehension is far ahead of reading comprehension through early childhood to at least middle school. Young students find it significantly easier to listen to and talk about complex ideas than they do to read and write about them. As a result, science instruction in elementary and middle schools […]

Twig Science Next Gen modules are structured around open-ended questions in which students lead their own learning to make sense of phenomena. As part of this process, students are given space to solve problems through peer-to-peer discussion and sense-making. Twig Science Next Gen is, above all, an inclusive program, and measures are included to ensure […]

Student writing in Twig Science Next Gen is designed to help students hone their thinking, synthesize ideas, and communicate them to others. It is an integral part of the process of students carrying out science and engineering practices such as asking questions, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and constructing explanations. Through […]

Reading for evidence takes place in Twig Science Next Gen via authentic, grade-appropriate science texts. By authentic texts, we mean reading materials in forms that students might encounter in the real world, for information and entertainment. By providing students with authentic texts, Twig Science Next Gen encourages students to develop strategies that they can apply […]

Within Twig Science Next Gen, with a focus on developing 21st century skills in the context of phenomena-based investigations, science and engineering understanding and language competence develop interdependently. The language demands of NGSS are rigorous, and the pragmatic applications in the classroom require attention to both subject content and language. The Science and Engineering Practices […]

Discover the Twig Science Next Gen Assessment System Twig Science Next Gen has created a three-dimensional assessment system to match the NGSS. Twig Science Next Gen supports teachers to deliver the three-dimensional learning required by the NGSS, providing a three-dimensional assessment system that allows teachers to evaluate student attainment of NGSS Performance Expectations. The assessment […]

Twig Science Next Gen scores highly on NGSS-based rubrics such as NextGen TIME Paper screen evaluation.  These materials show exactly how we meet these criteria and if you’re short for time, we’ve filled-in rubrics that you can download.  Review Evaluation Rubrics

Our Standards Maps can be found in the Framework Alignment tables that appear on the foldout of the Teacher Edition front cover. These tables detail the 1:1 correlation between the Framework Segments and the Twig Science Next Gen Modules across the full K–6 program. For each module, they also list the Module Phenomenon (MP) and […]

Grade Progressions To make it easy for teachers to track student progress, each module contains a Scope and Sequence, which provides an overview of each chapter, and details the 3 Dimensions and Performance Expectations that are covered in each module and lesson. In addition, the Performance Expectation Progressions overview lays out what students are expected […]