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3 | Organization & Structure | Format of Teacher Materials- Teacher site/Teacher Editions have a user friendly layout for teachers. | The McGraw Hill platform is equipped with a variety of rich media resources to transport students beyond the walls of the classroom and help them explore difficult concepts with ease. These engaging and easy-to-use resources include: • Simulations • Anytime Investigation/Lab Videos (K-8) • Virtual Field Trips • STEM Careers and STEAM Stations McGraw Hill makes periodic updates to its platform and digital resources to ensure that Texas educators, students, and caregivers have access to the latest technology and enhancements. Printing options are available for many of the resources that come with the McGraw Hill Texas Science programs. Additionally, the assessment app within the McGraw Hill digital platform provides Texas educators with the ability to easily customize premade assessment items. | |
4 | Format of Student Materials - Student Materials/Textbooks have a user friendly layout for students. | The McGraw Hill Texas Science student materials were meticulously designed with stunning visuals that pique student interest and invite them to explore more about the topics being presented. Curriculum developers and designers took care to select images that were not only captivating but also meaningful to the learning and learners. The McGraw Hill platform is equipped with a variety of rich media resources to transport students beyond the walls of the classroom and help them explore difficult concepts with ease. These engaging and easy-to-use resources include: • Anytime Investigation/Lab Videos (K-8) • Virtual Field Trips • Interactive Case Explorations McGraw Hill makes periodic updates to its platform and digital resources to ensure that Texas educators, students, and caregivers have access to the latest technology and enhancements. Printing options are available for many of the resources that come with the McGraw Hill Texas Science programs. | ||
5 | Lesson Plans | 5E Compatibility- Provides learning opportunities that engage students with hands on experiences and are formatted to the 5E instructional model. | McGraw Hill Texas Science strategically and systemically incorporates the 5E Learning Model clearly and concisely into every lesson. The 5E Learning Model is used to help students build conceptual understanding as they explore phenomena and solve real-world problems. Throughout each lesson, teachers will use a variety of multi-sensory resources (e.g., videos, simulations, images, narrative text, hands-on investigations) as they implement the 5E Model. During the Engage stage, videos, photos, and a Quick Launch activity are used to introduce phenomena to pique student interest, encourage questions, and reveal current understanding. The Explore stage provides students with common experiences as they conduct hands-on investigations to observe patterns, test variables, and understand relationships. Students use a variety of resources during the Explain stage to construct explanations for what they witnessed in the Explore stage. Resources, such as Virtual Field Trips, used in the Elaborate stage allow students to further explore concepts they learned in different contexts. The Evaluate stage was designed to help both students and teachers assess understanding using a variety of resources. Lesson Planning Guides were built to give teachers ultimate flexibility in implementing the 5E Learning Model, allowing them to alter instruction to accommodate time constraints, different teaching styles, and the needs of diverse learners. | |
6 | Lessons | Grade Level Appropriate - Provides materials that are grade level appropriate and aligned to the NEW TEKS. | McGraw Hill Texas Science was constructed to help students build a deep knowledge of the TEKS for science—not merely touching upon each standard, but truly allowing for a depth of coverage in every lesson. The programs are built specifically for Texas educators and students and were: • Developed with authors, industry experts, academic reviewers, and Texas educators to ensure that programs’ resources were created to include the full depth and complexity of the TEKS • Carefully constructed so that the knowledge and skills students gained previously are connected to new concepts and further developed in each successive year Evidence of the programs’ depth, complexity, and vertical alignments can be found in the following resources: • Correlations for each grade level • McGraw Hill Texas Science Vertical and Horizontal Standards Alignment • The TEKS Progression section found within the Chapter Overview in every Teacher Edition | |
7 | Available in Spanish - Resources are provided in Spanish through authentic translation (not machine). | All core student materials are authentically translated into Spanish for K-8 and Biology, Chemistry, and IPC. In K-8, the Teacher’s Edition is also available in Spanish and includes additional support for Dual Language instruction. Numerous digital ancillaries are translated into Spanish, including Science Literacy Essentials. The McGraw Hill platform allows students to access these Spanish resources with just one click. In addition, with just one click, students can translate their Interactive eBook and other resources into any language. Students also have access to multi-lingual glossaries available in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, French, Haitian-Creole, Hmong, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese. | ||
8 | Flexible Delivery - Teachers can edit materials and distribute them digitally or through print. | McGraw Hill Texas Science was built with flexibility in mind which includes giving educators the ability to edit many of the resources. These resources include but are not limited to: • Hands-on activities and labs • Chapter/Lesson presentations • Assessments | ||
9 | Instructional strategies - Research based strategies are embedded within lessons. | Investigations are the centerpiece of McGraw Hill Texas Science. These investigations come in a variety of types and allow students to explore science and engineering concepts through hands-on experiments, data analysis, simulations, or research. | ||
10 | Vocabulary strategies - Research based strategies to promote vocabulary development are embedded within lessons. | Scaffolded vocabulary progression allows students to increase conceptual understanding. Materials provide review and practice of vocabulary as it connects to the acquisition of scientific language and repeats over lessons and grades to build complexity. Supports for vocabulary are present in every chapter/lesson and include but are not limited to the following resources/features: · Interactive Word Wall activities · Word Lab · Science Literacy Essentials (Grades 3-8) · Word-learning strategies such as word origin and cognates found within the Teacher Edition · LearnSmart (Grades 3-12) · Dinah Zike’s Foldables | ||
11 | Phenomena - Engaging pictures, videos, and other multimedia are intentionally embedded to promote student inquiry. | The McGraw Hill Texas Science student materials were meticulously designed with stunning visuals that pique student interest and invite them to explore more about the topics being presented. Curriculum developers and designers took care to select images that were not only captivating but also meaningful to the learning and learners. Videos, photos, and a Quick Launch activity are used to introduce phenomena to pique student interest, encourage questions, and reveal current understanding | ||
12 | Scientific & Engineering Practices (SEPs- TEKS 1-4) Opportunities for students to engage in experimental and engineering design practices to solve real world problems are intentionally embedded. | The real-world connections to the TEKS, SEPs, and RTCs provided within McGraw Hill Texas Science not only allow students to deepen their science knowledge but also help them to understand the social relevance of science and engineering to their own lives. Real-world connections are integrated throughout the curriculum in every program. Evidence for these connections includes but is not limited to: • The use of real-world phenomena or problem-solving presented in every chapter and lesson • STEM Connection features • STEM Projects Teacher background information is found in every chapter and lesson. Evidence of the background information can be found within every Teacher Editon and in the teacher background videos provided online in the McGraw Hill digital platform. | ||
13 | Recurring Themes and Concepts (RTCs - TEKS 5) Connections to the recurring themes and concepts are intentionally embedded. | Investigations are the centerpiece of every McGraw Hill Texas Science program. These investigations come in a variety of types and allow students to explore science and engineering concepts through hands-on experiments, data analysis, simulations, or research. Students practice, develop, and demonstrate mastery of Scientific and Engineering Practices (process skills) while learning grade-level content in Hands-On Investigations and labs. The Recurring Themes and Concepts are directly taught and then woven through activities and reading for students to make connections between and within overarching science concepts. Every lesson includes an investigation or lab. Every chapter includes either a Show What You Know and/or a STEM Project to support more open inquiry and continued higher level application. | ||
14 | Connections across Science Domains (TEKS 6 and Beyond) Connections between life science, physical science, and Earth & space science are intentionally and explicitly integrated. | Interdisciplinary connections include engineering and technology, as well as interdisciplinary science connections across the life, Earth, and physical sciences. STEM Career and STEM Biography features further allow for relevant connections and applications to be presented together to help make content more meaningful to students. The STEM Projects support the integration and application of science and interdisciplinary skills for real-world learning. Students are presented with a variety of these throughout each grade/program to help introduce several career pathways they might want to pursue. Below are a few STEM Project activities from across the McGraw Hill Texas programs: · STEM Project: Helpful Magnets (Kindergarten) · STEM Project: Terrific Terrariums (Grade 1) · STEM Project: Sound in Motion (Grade 2) · STEM Project: No-Waste Machine (Grade 3) · STEM Project: Meet the Moon Night (Grade 4) · STEM Project: Community Garden Health Check (Grade 5) | ||
15 | Connections across Content Areas- Connections between Mathematics, English Language Arts, and Social Studies are integrated. | McGraw Hill Texas Science was designed to seamlessly integrate ELAR, math, and social studies content into the science curriculum and include a plethora of exemplar activities/projects that facilitate the connections. Evidence for these connections is found in but is not limited to the following student and teacher resources: • Student Edition • Teacher Edition • STEM Projects • Cross-Curricular Correlations | ||
16 | Instructional Support | Interactive notebooks - Resources are available to students in digital and printable form. | Notebooking strategies are supported (and referenced in the TE). Graphic organizers are provided as appropriate to support notebooking with the investigations/labs. An online version of Dinah Zike’s InRIGORating Science Notebooks is also provided to support science note booking support. | |
17 | Inquiry Strategies- Opportunities to clarify, justify, interpret, etc are embedded within the resource | To support the development of inquiry skills, students are provided ample opportunity to ask questions and engage in hands-on investigations and labs. Students plan and conduct various investigations with scaffolded inquiry levels (structured, guided, and open) to provide varied opportunities to practice inquiry skills. Inquiry skills are developed throughout the lessons using the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning routine. Students write a claim, gather evidence to support the claim, and use reasoning to describe the validity of their claim. The goal of the visual literacy features is to help students make sense of media they observe through interpretation, analysis, and synthesis. The programs include content-rich visuals that convey information beyond the written text on the page. Throughout chapter and lesson openers, students are asked to interact with an engaging photo that ties to the Essential Questions and TEKS. Additional content-related visual elements, such as diagrams, graphs, tables, maps, posters, photos, and infographics are throughout the Explain phase to present or review content. Students interact with the visual element to find evidence, convey understanding, or ask questions. | ||
18 | Lexile Differentiation -System to select reading levels for student reading assignments provided. | The reading levels in McGraw Hill Texas Science are designed to be appropriate for the corresponding grade level. Additionally, the Science Literacy Essentials component (Grades 3-8, Biology, IPC, and Chemistry) is specifically tailored to provide a lower reading level, accompanied by additional scaffolding for vocabulary and visual literacy. Moreover, the Interactive Student eBook (Grades 3-8, Biology, IPC, and Chemistry) offers flexibility by allowing adjustments to a lower Lexile level, ensuring a personalized learning experience that aligns with individual reading abilities and needs. | ||
19 | Extensions - Materials to meet the needs of advanced learners embedded or easily accessible. | Throughout the McGraw Hill Texas Science Teacher's Guide, references are made to "Extend" (black oval icon). This allow opportunties for advanced learners to extend their understanding. There are embedded STEM projects for alterantive assessment opportunities as well as more rigorous DOK level questions to be used at the teacher's descretion. | ||
20 | Interventions - Materials to meet the needs of struggling learners embedded or easily accessible. | The McGraw Hill Texas Science programs provide copious and high-quality learning opportunities as well as timely supports to ensure that all Texas students are successful in science, ultimately becoming more independent thinkers and learners. Every chapter of the McGraw Hill science programs includes targeted supports with specific strategies for interventions and extensions. These include: • Science Literacy Essentials (Grades 3-8) • TEKS Refresh • STEAM Stations (Grades K-5) • Embedded activities to Reinforce and Extend featured throughout the Teacher Edition • Emergent Bilingual/English Language support within the Teacher Edition • LearnSmart (Grades 3-8) • Guided Write About It (Grades K-5) • STEAM Investigator (Grades K-5) • Guided Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (Grades K-5) • Inquiry Spectrum found within the teacher material for each Explore activity (K-8) • STEM Projects | ||
21 | Simulations / Interactive labs - Relevant simulations that allow students to collect/manipulate real time data are provided. | All hands-on activities/labs in McGraw Hill Texas Science can be carried out digitally through the Anytime Investigation Videos (Grades K-5). Students can collect and interpret data as a narrator walks them through each step of the investigation just as if they were conducting it on their own. These digital investigations allow for the exploration of concepts that are challenging to in carry out in the classroom setting. | ||
22 | Lab kits - Supplemental kits for hands on labs are available. | McGraw Hill Lab kits are available for K-8. Detailed materials lists are provided. The student materials for investigations/lab are editable so teachers can modify as needed. | ||
23 | Meaningful Assessment | Flexible Delivery - Teachers can edit tests and quizzes and distribute them digitally or through print. | The assessment app within McGraw Hill Texas Science, gives educators the ability to easily customize premade assessment items. Within the app, educators can: • Modify existing items or add their own • Access activity performance reports and TEKS performance reports • Organize and sort the data by class, individual students, or type of assignments | |
24 | Item banks- Have quality questions that can used for quizzes and end of unit assessments. | McGraw Hill Texas Science includes robust item banks that contain a variety of rigorous, TEKS-aligned assessments within the assessment app located in the McGraw Hill digital platform. Educators can easily search for items using the search tool. The assessment items found within the banks are fully customizable, allowing educators to edit the existing items or add their own. | ||
25 | Feedback- Platform allows teacher to incorporate live and immediate feedback during or right after a student takes an assessment. | Many of the checks in Texas Science provide immediate feedback that supports teachers in directing students to enhance their understanding and learning and provide students with direction to work on their own learning. | ||
26 | Formative Assessments- Exemplars and strategies are provided for assessments during initial instruction. | The McGraw Hill Texas Science programs include a range of assessments that are developmentally and grade-level appropriate to assess content and skill mastery. These include but are not limited to: • Chapter Pre-Tests • Science Probes • Lesson/Chapter Reviews • Chapter Tests • Exit Tickets • STEM Projects • LearnSmart (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Integrated Physics and Chemistry) • Check for Understanding • TEKS Assessment Guide (K-5) The assessment app within the McGraw Hill digital platform provides Texas educators with technology-enhanced assessment items that mimic the Texas state tests for science. These include text entry, hot spot, drag and drop, multipart, multiselect, and short constructed response. | ||
27 | Summative Assessments- Exemplar Tests and/or Item Banks allow teachers or the district to administer End of Unit, End of Semester,/Year, or Benchmark Tests. | The McGraw Hill Texas Science programs include a range of assessments that are developmentally and grade-level appropriate to assess content and skill mastery. These include but are not limited to: • Chapter Pre-Tests • Science Probes • Lesson/Chapter Reviews • Chapter Tests • Exit Tickets • STEM Projects • LearnSmart (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Integrated Physics and Chemistry) • Check for Understanding • TEKS Assessment Guide (Biology) The assessment app within the McGraw Hill digital platform provides Texas educators with technology-enhanced assessment items that mimic the Texas state tests for science. These include text entry, hot spot, drag and drop, multipart, multiselect, and short constructed response. | ||
28 | STAAR 2.0 items- Users can create or include items that are formatted similar to the items students will see on STAAR. | The Assessment app within the McGraw Hill platform provides Texas educators with rigorous technology-enhanced assessment items that mimic the Texas state tests for science. These include text entry, hot spot, drag and drop, multipart, multiselect, and short constructed response. These assessment items provide opportunities for students to authentically practice question types they will encounter on the STAAR. Materials include review and practice materials with multiple depths of knowledge. The Student Edition includes comprehension questions and the assignments available online with higher-level depths of knowledge. Pre-made assessments include Chapter Pre-Tests, Lesson Review/Quizzes, Vocabulary Tests (HS), Chapter Reviews, and Chapter Tests. The TEKS Assessment Guide provides guided practice and independent practice aligned to each standard for state assessments. In addition to these assessment banks, question banks are provided with additional questions for teachers to create and customize assessments. For Administrators, admin banks are provided as well. | ||
29 | Scoring guidance- Includes aligned rubrics,scoring guidelines and data analysis tools. | McGraw Hill Texas Science includes rubrics for project based learning, scoring guidelines and mutliple data analysis tools inlcuding reports by TEKS, by Activity and by Student. | ||
30 | Professional Development | Asynchronous PD - Modules are provided in the Teacher Resource that will guide teachers through Professional Learning Opportunities. | We provide initial implementation training, allowing your teachers to familiarize themselves with the Texas Science program and its features. In addition to the personalized training, the McGraw Hill Texas Science resource offers embedded professional development features on the platform. These include videos our expert authorship team created showcasing best practices, model lessons, science background, and guidance on navigating the platform effectively. These resources are valuable tools to enhance further teacher proficiency and confidence in utilizing the program. | |
31 | Synchronous PD - Vendor will provide personnel to deliver Professional Learning Opportunities. | McGraw Hill is fully committed to supporting your district's success by providing a comprehensive professional development plan tailored to your district's needs that includes both in-person and virtual options. | ||
32 | Trainer of Trainer -Vendor will train NEISD personnel to deliver Professional Learning Opportunities. | McGraw Hill will create a customized professional learning plan with NEISD Curriculum leaders that can include a Trainer of Trainer model . | ||
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