Products

Making Sense of SCIENCE (MSS) offers a variety of products designed to promote inquiry learning in teachers and students. MSS also offers assessment tools — from student tasks designed to augment and accent existing curricula to content assessments that can measure pre- and post-intervention growth.

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING MATERIALS

Course Materials 
​All MSS courses are supported by comprehensive materials that serve as tools to guide professional learning. These materials — including Teacher Books, Facilitator Guides, handouts, and charts — provide the scaffolding and background information required to lead or participate in MSS courses. 

Ongoing Learning Protocols
​MSS offers the Making Sense of Student Work protocol — a self-facilitated guide for collaborative groups of K–8 teachers (anywhere from 3 to 24 people) to use in examining and learning from their own students’ work. The protocol is designed for use with any content area, not just science!

ASSESSMENT MATERIALS

Formative Assessment Task Banks
​These task banks are designed to augment existing curriculum with assessments that go beyond simple recall to promote reasoning. Each grade-band-specific task bank contains 20 or more black line masters on a range of concepts. 

Student & Teacher Content Tests
​These assessments are intended help to gauge growth in knowledge about a specific science content area as a result of an intervention, such as professional learning, curriculum use, or mentoring. Tests are available in a range of topics for teachers and students. 

PRODUCTS & SERVICES CATALOG ​​
​Comprehensive information about MSS professional learning and all supporting materials.