Our interactive slideshows provide the roadmap for an amazing learning experience for students in grades 5-9. A Detailed set of work bundles chronologically follow the digital learning, providing a clear and intuitive roadmap to understanding. As the teacher or student advances through a slideshow, exciting hands-on activities, fantastic visuals, fill-in notes, review opportunities, video links, assessments, and much more are strategically placed throughout. Interactive learning unfolds step by step, and is supported by the work bundle to reach all types of learners. Everything you need to run to an amazing learning experience is provided in this one-of-a-kind science curriculum.
Each unit in the curriculum is designed to help teachers deliver the best possible learning experience for their students. Our interactive science slideshows are filled with questions and answers, important fill-in notes, hands-on activities, projects, games, built-in quizzes, and end of the unit assessment pieces. Students follow along with a work bundle that documents the entire learning experience for a fantastic review and assessment piece.
Design / Curriculum
Red Slide Notes
Red Slide Notes: We've developed an innovative way to help students record important information in a fun and easy-to-understand way. Our specially designed red-colored slides contain a few pieces of crucial information that students must record into their work bundle to complete the notes. Students will use these important notes throughout the work bundle.
An Interactive Approach
Our educational slides are designed to make learning fun and interactive for students. With a mix of questions and answers, teachers can use these slides to get their students thinking and actively participating in their education. Plus, the answers are always revealed on the next slide, providing students with immediate feedback and helping teachers assess their understanding.
Lesson planning
Daily lessons space exciting hands-on activities, red slide notes, video and academic links, projects, simulations, readings, built-in quizzes, and review opportunities throughout the slideshows. A typical day may have many different learning styles being targeted. Daily lesson planning becomes advancing through the slideshow roadmap the night before. Each lesson is roughly 50 minutes, but sometimes things can speed up or slow down. The best strategy is just to go at your classes own pace. The work bundle follows the slideshow and you can always spend extra time assessing the quality of the writing within. If you don’t quite finish a lesson you can always pick it up the next day where you left off. The only real trick in timing is not starting a larger activity if you don’t have the available time to complete. The slideshows have been designed to be a low stress, and go at your classes own pace experience. A materials list is provided and most activities are designed to be cost effective, using general materials that can be gathered from your local stores.
Follow Along Work Bundles
Each science unit comes with several work bundles. The bundles should be printed before the unit begins and distributed to the students on the first day of the unit. The work bundles will be due shortly after the completion of the unit. The work bundle will become a resource for the review games, crossword puzzles, and will be collected for assessment. The work bundle follows the entire learning experience and will be used every day. They are chronological to the lessons and provide places to record fill-in notes, answer questions, collect data, graph and much more. An answer version is provided that can that be distributed to your support professionals. A digital version of the work bundle, and selected writable .pdf versions are provided if you want to go paperless. These work bundles are perfect for students looking for an easy and organized way to track their progress and stay on top of their studies.
Daily lessons space exciting hands-on activities, red slide notes, video and academic links, projects, simulations, readings, built-in quizzes, and review opportunities throughout the slideshows. A typical day may have many different learning styles being targeted. Daily lesson planning becomes advancing through the slideshow roadmap the night before. Each lesson is roughly 50 minutes, but sometimes things can speed up or slow down. The best strategy is just to go at your classes own pace. The work bundle follows the slideshow and you can always spend extra time assessing the quality of the writing within. If you don’t quite finish a lesson you can always pick it up the next day where you left off. The only real trick in timing is not starting a larger activity if you don’t have the available time to complete. The slideshows have been designed to be a low stress, and go at your classes own pace experience. A materials list is provided and most activities are designed to be cost effective, using general materials that can be gathered from your local stores.
Each unit also comes with between 1-7 PowerPoint review games (125 slides each). Each game has 20 questions and 5 for fun bonus questions. A Final question also allows the students to wager points. Answers are provided in slideshow form so students can self assess. A blank template sheet is provided at the end of the work bundle. Students can benefit from working together in small table groups with quiet communication. You can decide if you want to allow the use of work bundles or not. These are a nice review opportunity and get the students looking through their work bundles for the answers.
Review Games / Assessments
Our science activities are designed to help students explore and understand complex scientific concepts in an engaging and interactive way. Each science unit includes several hands-on activities that encourage students to collect data and think critically about the world around them. Our easy-to-follow slideshow provides detailed visuals, simple materials, and clear directions, making it easy for both students and teachers to navigate the activities.
Activities / Labs
Built-in Quizzes
Each unit contains several built-in quizzes that students answer in their work bundle. With the question revealed before the answer, the teacher can easily call on individual students or table groups to respond. These quizzes provide an effective and efficient way for teachers to assess student learning.
Built-in Video Links
Our science education program is designed with the modern, multimedia learner in mind, and our video links are a perfect complement to our educational materials. These short, 2-7 minute clips are embedded into the slideshow at just the right places for a fantastic review. Whether you're studying biology, chemistry or physics, our video links are an excellent way to reinforce your learning.
Built-in Games and Review
Our educational games are a fantastic way for students to learn scientific concepts while having fun. We incorporate a variety of games into our curriculum, including interactive quizzes and puzzles that challenge students to think critically about the material. Our Hidden Box Games are a particularly popular feature, which conclude each unit by revealing a picture related to the topic. Students try to guess what the picture might be, making learning an engaging experience.
Organization and Design
We provide a four-year curriculum that's designed for comprehensive learning in Life, Earth and Physical Science. Our curriculum is organized into 20 units of study that are broken down into several parts, with each part comprising several 50 minute lessons. We also provide detailed work bundles that chronologically follow the slideshow roadmap to create an immersive, engaging and effective learning experience for our students. The work bundles become a fantastic assessment piece and resource.
SlideSpark Owl
The Owl - This was something that was introduced and the students went bonkers and demanded more. Each Part of the slideshow has a small clipart Owl hiding somewhere in a slide. The owl is incredibly small and blended into just the right slide. If a student spots the owl they can raise their hand high into the air. When you call upon them they can say "owl" and be the student who spotted the Owl. Each PowerPoint Review game also has an owl hiding in it worth one point. Remind the students that they secretly write the word "owl" rather than yell it out during the review games. This is just for fun and everything arrives editable so delete if you wish but it seems to be a student favorite. You will find that some students will become the expert owl hunters in the group.
Google Classroom Compatible
Our digital learning programs are designed for students to learn science in a flexible and engaging environment. Our Google Classroom-compatible units provide a seamless learning experience whether your students are in the classroom or learning from home. Our step-by-step slideshows and student work bundles ensure that students can complete their work independently. The PowerPoint Slideshows and step-by-step work bundles can easily be loaded to your Google Drive and posted in your Google Classroom. These are great for daily lessons, students who need additional time, and for a student who was absent and looking to catch up in their work bundle.
Built-in Questions and Assessments
Many slides will have relevant terms covered with a box. When advancing through the slideshow an outline around the box will glow with a bright color. The next slide will make the box disappear. These slides allow the teacher to call upon students or table groups / check for understanding before advancing. The team at SlideSpark has found that using this technique helps to keep the students focused. Constantly recalling and reviewing information learned is necessary when moving through a large unit. The slideshows don't just give everything away for free. Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge before moving on. Some slides have full questions instead of just covered terms. In these slides, the teacher should encourage small group work. The teacher can then call upon one or two groups to share before advancing the slide. The next slide will always reveal the correct answer.
Four Year Curriculum Grades 5th-9th
Number of Lessons in each unit and difficult rating 5-10 scale / intended grade level.
Total Lessons in curriculum = 792 Each lesson is roughly 50 minutes and accompanied by a detailed work bundle.
*Note: the number of daily lessons could increase or decrease based on whether you have a fast paced or slower moving class. You can also skip projects and sections if short on time. Everything is editable and divided into parts so you can run portions of a unit if needed.
