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Company: Savvas Learning Company, Paramus, NJ
Company Description: At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire. Our next-generation learning solutions, developed by leading authors and educators, leverage the power of adaptive learning and advanced technology to deliver immersive, personalized, and engaging content that connects teachers and students with real-world learning experiences, helping all learners discover their greatness. Visit savvas.com.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Science Instructional Solution
 Nomination Title: Savvas Learning's Experience Chemistry® © 2021
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- Visit the Experience Chemistry webpage and Interactive Tour page for more information. Check out the overview brochure, summary video, sample lesson video [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION] that explains its features on the Savvas Realize LMS.
- Experience Chemistry transforms the traditional textbook into a modern interactive notebook that students will actually use. Students DO chemistry by first interacting with phenomena through hands-on and virtual inquiry activities before they complete readings, articulate their understanding, and answer formative assessments in the Student Experience Notebook.
- An exclusive partnership with Flinn Scientific, the nation’s leading lab provider, brings high-quality inquiry labs, lab videos, performance-based assessments, and other resources to the program.
- Experience Chemistry courseware includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in the classroom. Through Savvas Realize, teachers can customize the program to rearrange and upload content, create and share playlists, add links to media, and edit resources and assessments. Flexible resources and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation.
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- Available in digital and print, the Teacher Guide provides robust lesson planners based on the 5E learning model. It offers educators explicit directions and explanations for introducing phenomena, instructional strategies to support students as they make sense of phenomena, and classroom modifications to differentiate instruction based on student needs, skills, and interests.
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Experience Chemistry® © 2021 January 1, 2021
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Students learn science best when they DO science. That’s why Experience Chemistry® puts the focus on the student experience. This new, modern high school program implements an interactive learning model using the exploration of phenomena to drive student engagement. It includes a wide variety of engaging hands-on and digital activities designed to reach every learner. Students complete hands-on inquiry labs, virtual labs, simulations, data analysis, claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) exercises, and more on their sensemaking journey. Experience Chemistry equips educators with comprehensive, editable resources and the ability to use data to modify curriculum for unique classroom needs.
With a wealth of interactive content and assessment tools accessible on Savvas Realize, one of the publishing industry’s most versatile learning management systems, Experience Chemistry delivers flexibility to every teacher and personalized instruction to every student to support learning anytime, anywhere. The program features an innovative instructional model in which students first interact with phenomena through hands-on and virtual activities before completing readings and math practice in the Student Experience Notebook e-Text. Developed to provide authentic, real-world learning experiences, Experience Chemistry offers many exciting student-centered activities, including:
- HANDS-ON INQUIRY LABS, developed by exclusive partner Flinn Scientific and available in four versions — guided, open-ended, short, and advanced — that provide opportunities for educators to customize curriculum for any classroom situation.
- VIRTUAL LAB investigations that offer in-depth, open-ended lab experiences in a digital environment.
- DIGITAL RESOURCES such as simulations and animations that simplify complex concepts and provide a visual model to assist in student understanding.
- PROCESS-FOCUSED MATH SUPPORT with tutorial videos and sample problems broken down for clarity and process guidance.
Experience Chemistry provides comprehensive coverage of and alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Its curriculum is supported by the most up-to-date science teaching practices, including the BSCS 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) Model of Instruction promoting active learning where students collaborate to solve problems and investigate new concepts.
By offering engaging lab experiments, digital activities, and personalized learning experiences, Experience Chemistry challenges and excites students with scientific phenomena that make them explore, question, and discover the hows and whys of chemistry.
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In the NGSS classroom, students don’t passively receive information. Instead, they observe phenomena, define problems, and make discoveries. Students answer their own questions by DOING science.
Making sense of phenomena drives student learning throughout Experience Chemistry. When Experience Chemistry was introduced for the 2020-2021 school year, it was met with great success and excitement from chemistry teachers and school administrators alike. Educators appreciate the program’s research-based instructional design and phenomena-focused learning, a key feature advanced by the NGSS. They also hail Experience Chemistry’s focus on student engagement, including activities that move students from experiencing a phenomenon to developing an understanding of the major concept. Even the use of active, participatory nomenclature — calling a unit of study a “Storyline,” the chapter an “Investigation,” and the lesson an “Experience” — highlights the program’s emphasis on encouraging students to think and figure things out.
Noting how Experience Chemistry provided her with a “new and refreshing” way of teaching, Lucia Johnson, a chemistry teacher at Warren Township High School in Illinois, said the program’s student-driven and phenomena-based instructional approaches excelled at engaging her students like no other program she has ever used.
“In my 18 years as an educator, I’ve never taught chemistry like this,” she explained. “Before, I covered chemistry topics in the traditional progression, yet it was sometimes hard to bridge the relevance of one unit to the next. With Experience Chemistry, the units become interrelated ‘storylines’ that encourage students to explore and make connections to real-world applications, like the chemical make-up of colors in fireworks. Now, students are in the driver’s seat of their own learning, and that’s exciting for everyone.”
With its problem-solving approach, high-interest content, and interactive technology, Experience Chemistry offers a re-envisioned curriculum for teaching chemistry in a whole new way. Since being introduced to the market, Experience Chemistry has been honored with the 2021 EdTech Breakthrough Award for “Best Science Learning Solution” and the 2021 SIIA CODiE Award for “Best Advanced Science Instructional Solution.”
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