Carolina Certified Version of
OpenSciEd Elementary School Curriculum
Carolina Certified Version
Looking for high-quality instructional materials for your youngest learners? The Carolina Certified Version of OpenSciEd for elementary school offers ease of use, less prep, and built-in support so any teacher can be a science teacher.
All elementary units meet three-dimensional science standards and allow flexibility for a customized curriculum.
OpenSciEd Elementary School Science Units
- K.1 Energy: Sunlight
- K.2 Weather
- K.3 Forces & Motion COMING SOON!
- K.4 Ecosystems: Plant, Animals, and their Environment COMING SOON!
- 1.1 Waves: Light
- 1.2 Waves: Sound
- 1.3 Space: Sky Patterns COMING SOON!
- 1.4 Animal & Plant Traits COMING SOON!
- 2.1 Earth: Land Changing Shape
- 2.2 Structure & Properties of Matter
- 2.3 Habitats & Biodiversity COMING SOON!
- 2.4 Plants COMING SOON!
- 3.1 Forces & Interactions
- 3.2 Weather & Hazards
- 3.3 Trait Variations COMING SOON!
- 3.4 Ecosystem Change & Survival COMING SOON!
- 4.1 Energy Transfer: Collisions
- 4.2 Energy Transfer: Electricity
- 4.3 Earth Processes COMING SOON!
- 4.4 Structure & Function COMING SOON!
- 5.1 Ecosystems & Matter Cycling
- 5.2 Matter Properties
- 5.3 Earth Systems COMING SOON!
- 5.4 Earth in the Universe COMING SOON!

Flexible Solutions
All units meet NGSS standards and are expertly designed. The units allow flexibility for a customized curriculum. Complete unit offerings include teacher’s guides, high quality instructional materials, professional development, digital resources, and management tools for forms, assignments, grading, video support, and more!
Equipment Kits
Enhanced materials and kits are organized and bagged by lesson to save teacher prep time.
Grades K-2: 1-Class Kit (28 students)
Grades 3-5: 1-Class Kits (32 students)
Need to replenish? Refurbishment kits and individual components are avaiable to replace used, lost, or broken materials.
Printed Instruction

Redesigned and reformatted print materials make planning and teaching easy.
Teacher Guide includes: instructions and point-of-use support for all lessons
Teacher Instructional Materials includes: background information, unit overview, standards alignment, materials list, and pacing guide.
Student Notebook: all handouts organized by lesson with room to write.
Student Readers: additional copies available as individuals or 8-packs
Digital Access
Carolina Science Online is an easy-to-use digital platform that offers all instructional resources with advanced accessibility features, enhanced assessment and reporting, and the most current data security and privacy protocols.
This enhanced experience requires the purchase of a class license.

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