Core science curriculum • Grades 6–12

Kiddom OpenSciEd

Where questions lead to discovery

Real-world phenomena and hands-on investigation put students at the center of scientific sensemaking.

OpenSciEd, made coherent with Kiddom

Kiddom brings OpenSciEd’s storyline-driven science curriculum together with the tools teachers need to plan, instruct, assess, and respond to student thinking in one connected system.

Grades 6–8 • Biology • Chemistry • Physics

What sets the Kiddom experience apart

Faster Planning

Start with complete OpenSciEd lessons, teacher guidance, materials lists, and standards connections, then make adjustments without piecing together resources across separate tools.

Flexible Delivery

Move between hands-on investigation, whole-class discussion, print, and digital activities while keeping every part of the storyline connected.

Smarter Assessment

Capture student thinking throughout the learning process and use assessment and standards reporting to see how understanding develops over time.

Layered Support

Get help navigating the curriculum, adapting instruction, and finding what you need without leaving the lesson.

Built for the NGSS

Disciplinary Core Ideas

Students develop important scientific ideas as they need them to explain increasingly complex phenomena.

Science and Engineering Practices

Students investigate, model, analyze data, argue from evidence, and communicate scientific ideas.

Crosscutting Concepts

Students use patterns, systems, cause and effect, and other lenses to make connections within and across scientific ideas.

Phenomena-Driven Learning

Students apply all three dimensions together to investigate real-world phenomena and build explanations over time.

Curiosity drives the learning

OpenSciEd’s curriculum starts with phenomena students want to explain. Their questions drive investigation, modeling, and discussion as they build understanding together, with teachers guiding the way.

Phenomena worth investigating

Real-world phenomena give students a compelling reason to ask questions and develop scientific ideas.

Hands-on investigation

Students gather evidence through investigations, models, simulations, data, and other learning experiences.

Collaborative sensemaking

Students share observations, challenge ideas, revise models, and build explanations together.

Everything you need to teach Kiddom OpenSciEd

Teach your way with connected digital, print, and hands-on materials.

Digital

Bring lessons, simulations, videos, student work, assessments, and teacher tools together in one place.

Print

Keep student thinking, models, reading, and written work connected to the curriculum beyond the screen with student and teacher print.

Hands-on

Hands-on kits give students the materials they need to investigate, model, and make sense of scientific ideas together.

What a storyline looks like

Students start with a real-world phenomenon and the questions it raises rather than a scientific explanation to memorize. Each storyline moves through investigation, discussion, modeling, and sensemaking as students build an explanation together.

The tools science teachers love

Discover how students learn with Kiddom

Explore how students solve problems, play and learn through digital centers, share their thinking, and make sense of ideas together.

Tour the Student Experience

Kiddom OpenSciEd

Where questions lead to discovery

OpenSciEd, made coherent with Kiddom