Overview
Middle School Science Techbook is a comprehensive program with high-quality, three-dimensional lessons and hands-on investigations for students that follows the 5E instructional model. This interactive program is full of resources that bring science to life for students.
How do students access Science Techbook?
Students can log in to Science Techbook from any device at home or school. From their dashboard, they can:
- Explore assigned content
- Use Search to find engaging resources
- Explore Studio to share learning in a creative way
- Access My Content (their personal folder system)
- And more
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How do students access assignments?
When a student logs in to Science Techbook, all Assignments are accessible from their Dashboard. Students can see which assignments are Active, Overdue, Due Today, and Done.
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What tools do students have access to?
From the top action bar, students have fast access to the following:
- My Notes: Throughout a course, students can highlight text on a page and add notes, as well as add notes to any existing highlights. Learn more about My Notes below.
- Tools: Throughout a course, students can access tools such as: Calculator, Unit Converter, Scientific Caluclator, Graphing Calculator, and Whiteboard.
- Language: Students can toggle between English and Spanish.
- More: From the 3-dot menu, students can access the following: Glossary, Notebook, Add to Favorites, Add to My Content.
How do students change the language from English to Spanish?
At any time, students can toggle between English and Spanish from the top action bar.
How do students change the reading level?
Students can adjust the reading level by selecting the Language toggle. In addition to changing the language from English to Spanish, there is also an option to change from Reading Level A to Reading Level B. Reading Level B is approximately 3 grade levels below reading level A.
How do students use My Notes?
Students can highlight text in Science Techbook, add notes, and save them.
Saved notes are then available in My Notes. To access, select My Notes from the top action bar from any Lesson page.
How do students access the Notebook?
To access the Notebook from a Concept page, navigate to the 3-dot menu in the top action bar and select Notebook. The Notebook opens to the last location a note was viewed.
To access Notes By Unit, select All Notes.
How do students use the Glossary?
Open the Glossary from the 3-dot menu in the top action bar.
From the Glossary, quickly access key vocabulary from All Lessons, or use the drop down to navigate to a specific lesson.
Each term in the Interactive Glossary includes a variety of alternative definition formats such as: animations that helps describe the term, details that include a definition and key context sentences for the term, video segments discussing the term, and/or images or diagrams.
Students can also access the interactive glossary by selecting a vocabular term within the student narrative.
How do students access Immersive Reader?
Immersive Reader is available wherever the Immersive Reader Icon is located. To use, simply select the icon. Learn more about Immersive Reader.