We share successful learning activities (lessons) that have been created and tried by a colleague using an online database organized as a cooperative. Our districts buy site licenses. The coop distributes the proceeds to the authors of downloaded lessons.

I was elated when the NGSS Framework came out, in 2013, with a clarion call for a 3-D model of curriculum... We watched for 20 years as our K–12 colleagues tried every trick the gurus suggested to implement the 169 standards, assured that the hands-on would naturally, on its own, birth the minds-on and scientific literacy for all students. It didn’t. “Oops. Sorry about those decades of futile effort.”

Covid + NGSS = Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for science education . . . If we teachers work together.

Before Covid, a 3-D model was my vehicle for getting all my kids to flexible higher-order thinking and, along the way, nailing any high-stakes exam. And I taught second grade to AP physics, in twelve different schools. You can do it too.

A 3-D model of curriculum, teaching, and learning has a keystone proposition at its center. As we’re all science teachers, we can recognize it as a simple, quasi-chemical equation with roots in the 2-D content-process model.