Speak Agent’s Middle School Science program significantly improves outcomes by helping students to explore scientific phenomena, acquire complex concepts, make claims, analyze evidence, and communicate reasoning.
How? By seamlessly integrating academic language activities, real-world science stories, reading and writing scaffolds, tools for students to create visual representations of data and ideas, and many other research-based Science+Language strategies. Students engage with digital activities across all six language domains: listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and representing.
Science Courses Available for Middle School
Science 6
| Unit | Next-Generation Science Standards |
|---|---|
| Using the Science & Engineering Practices | n/a – introductory |
| Forces | MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-PS3-1, MS-PS3-5, MS-ETS1-2, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4 |
| Motion and Energy | |
| Gravity and Magnetism | MS-PS2-3, MS-PS2-4, MS-PS2-5, MS-PS3-2, MS-ETS1-3 |
| Electricity | |
| States of Matter | MS-PS1-4, MS-PS3-3, MS-PS3-4, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2, MS-ETS1-3 |
| Heat Transfer | |
| Earth and Moon | MS-ESS1-1, MS-ESS1-2, MS-ESS1-3 |
| Solar Systems | |
| Cells and Cell Structure | MS-LS1-1, MS-LS1-2, MS-LS1-3, MS-LS1-8 |
| Body Systems |
Science 7
| Unit | Next-Generation Science Standards |
|---|---|
| Thinking Like Scientists and Engineers | n/a – introductory |
| Properties of Matter | MS-PS1-1, MS-PS1-2, MS-PS1-3, MS-PS1-5, MS-PS1-6, MS-ETS1-4 |
| Atoms and Molecules | |
| Energy in an Ecosystem | MS-LS1-6, MS-LS1-7, MS-LS3-2 |
| Ecosystem Interactions | |
| Ecosystem Relationships | MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-4, MS-LS2-5, MS-ETS1-2 |
| Biodiversity | |
| Ecosystems | MS-ESS3-1, MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3, MS-LS2-4 |
| Human Environmental Impact | |
| Weather Patterns and Water | MS-ESS2-4, MS-ESS2-5, MS-ESS3-2 |
| Storms | |
| Oceans and Climate | MS-ESS1-1, MS-ESS2-6, MS-ESS3-5 |
Science 8
| Unit | Next-Generation Science Standards |
|---|---|
| Thinking Like Scientists and Engineers | n/a – introductory |
| Forces (Review) | MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-PS3-1, MS-PS3-5, MS-ETS1-2, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4 |
| Motion and Energy (Review) | |
| Waves | MS-PS4-1, MS-PS4-2, MS-PS4-3 |
| Light and Sound | |
| Genetics | MS-LS3-1, MS-LS3-2, MS-LS4-5 |
| Inheritance | |
| Evolution | MS-LS4-1, MS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-3 |
| Evolution and Populations | MS-LS1-4, MS-LS1-5, MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-6 |
| Sexual Selection and Speciation | |
| Plate Tectonics and Geology | MS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-3, MS-ESS3-2 |
| Earthquakes and Other Land Formations | |
| Human Impact on Hydrosphere | MS-ESS3-1, MS-ESS3-3, MS-ESS3-4, MS-ETS1-1 |
Other Courses
- Science Foundations for Newcomers (ELP Levels 1-2)
Activities and Features
Science reading passages in Speak Agent, such as this Read Along, serve as a focal point for classroom discourse. All student responses are captured in the digital portfolio.
Diagram It! provides opportunities to review, label, and explain diagrams in writing or recorded speech. Writing and speaking activities in Speak Agent capture student work samples in a digital portfolio, providing actionable data.
Word Gallery is a great way to introduce new science concepts to your class. It works well on a projector or screen sharing in Zoom. Or, students can use it as a digital word wall!
Speaking activities like My Voice encourage students to verbalize science terms and concepts and to explain processes, patterns, or conclusions.
Sentence processing activities like Scrambled Sentences build comprehension by breaking scientific explanations and stories into manageable chunks that students can manipulate.
Story-based activities like Tall Tales use context clues to develop comprehension of the core content.
Vocab Lab presents a short passage that uses a target scientific term in a real-world context. Next, students combine basic words they have already learned to define the target term.
The digital portfolio stores open-ended responses, writing samples, voice recordings, and creative projects.
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