Family Outreach Letters The first lesson of every DQ includes a Family Outreach Letter (FOL). This is a digital asset that the teacher can print and hand out to students, or email to students’ families.  FOLs summarize the learning content of the DQ and provide suggestions for connecting students’ learning to experiences outside the classroom. […]

English Learners (EL) sidebars provide strategies for teachers to support ELs of all proficiency levels, with specific guidance on how to tailor the lesson to accommodate ELs.  Strategies include:  Cloze Frames Differentiated cloze sentence and paragraph frames Language Comprehension Strategies  Setting viewing, listening, and reading purposes Displaying word charts, discussion questions, and so on in […]

We provide tools that ensure all students have the social and emotional skills to participate and collaborate in scientific investigations with their peers. We mainly achieve this through class collaboration challenges and classroom routines. Starting from Grade 2, there is a 3-D Team Challenge consisting of a class collaboration challenge that starts off each year. […]

One of the best ways to encourage students to become interested in STEM is by focusing on local and global phenomena that are relevant to students’ lives. For example, in Grade 2, Module 2, Master of Materials, students learn about different materials and their properties, examining the materials they come across in their own lives […]

We believe it’s incredibly important that students can see themselves reflected in the learning materials they use in school. Therefore we have ensured that our program introduces myriad STEM professionals from all walks of life. In addition, we want to provide students with the opportunity to try out as many STEM roles as possible, so […]

How Do We Support Students with Diverse Learning Needs? Teacher Editions (TEs) contain comprehensive point-of-use scaffolds, which appear in margins outside the main content. These provide teachers with the tools they need to ensure every student can experience the wonders of science in the classroom.  Watch this video to discover our point-of-use scaffolds: The point-of-use […]

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 South Carolina 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 South Carolina is, above all, an inclusive program, and measures are included to ensure […]

Student writing in Twig Science South Carolina 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 […]