Carolina Science Online

From planning to instruction, Carolina Science Online (CSO) makes teaching the Carolina Certified Version of OpenSciEd easier—giving students a richer learning experience and teachers more time to focus on what matters.

Enhanced Digital

Carolina’s OpenSciEd K–12 enhanced digital content is available on the Carolina Science Online platform. This upgraded platform empowers teachers to customize their classes and create a custom scope and sequence using OpenSciEd units.

Each lesson includes:

Unit Overview includes:

Teacher Benefits

Tabbed layout that organizes content by lesson sets and individual lessons.
Dual Learning Plan and Presentation Mode– present slide show and following learning plan simultaneously.
Advanced assessments with automatic grading and reporting features.
Ability to search for resources by unit, lesson, media type, and standard.
Assignable student resources that are included at point-of-use.

Student Benefits

Text translation available for 250+ languages and text-to-speech translation in over 50 languages.
Individualized accommodations set at the roster level.
Built-in Tools– dictionary, calculator, ruler, and graphing tools.
Personalized Markup– ability to leave notes and highlight.
Adjustable font type, size, color, and spacing.

Interactive Digital Student Notebook

An interactive lesson resource that makes teaching easier and helps meet the needs of all students.

Basic Digital Access

A 6-year license to all basic digital resources is included with kit purchase. Instructional resources for each unit include:

Platform Compatible

Compatible with Clever, ClassLink, OneRoster, and Google Classroom
ThinCC and LTI capable
Dedicated Carolina technical and system support

Do you have specific questions concerning compatibility with the Carolina Certified Version of OpenSciEd on CarolinaScienceOnline.com?

Lesson Overview and Storyline tab:

Describes what students have done in the previous lesson, will do in the current lesson and the next lesson Shows how the lesson is building toward NGSS Describes the individual parts of each lesson by day

Materials and Preparation tab includes:

All materials and digital resources needed for each student, lab group, and the teacher Digital resources linked at point of use Step-by-step materials preparation

Learning Plan tab:

Breaks lessons down by day Lists investigation materials by lesson part References Teaching Slides to display

Digital Resources for Students

Interactive Digital Student Notebook:

An interactive lesson resource that makes teaching easier and helps meet the needs of all students.

Individual Digital Resources

• Student videos that are embedded in the platform

• Assessments that are downloadable, editable, assignable, and interactive

• Individually assignable student resources including videos, handouts, references, readings, and procedures

• English and Spanish student resources that are downloadable, editable, and assignable

Digital Resources for Teachers

Units are easily accessible under the OpenSciEd tab on the CarolinaScienceOnline.com learning platform

All units utilize a tabbed layout design that organizes content by Lesson Sets and individual lessons

Basic Digital

Includes teacher access to all teacher and student resources for each unit including:

Teacher Edition eBook

Downloadable teaching slides

All teacher and student videos

All teacher and student resources such as teaching slides, handouts, readings, and assessments

Resources that are downloadable and editable

Basic Digital Access is included with a kit purchase.

Enhanced Digital

Teacher License Options

1-Class Teacher and Student Digital Access

5-Class Teacher and Student Digital Access

Subscription Length

1-Year License
6-Year License

All instructional resources in Carolina Certified Versions are available as downloadable or assignable content on the Carolina Science Online (CSO) platform. This interactive experience for teachers and students requires the purchase of a class license.