GALAXY Classroom

GALAXY Classroom Science Curricula
GALAXY Classroom Language Arts Curriculum

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GALAXY Classroom® Curricula
GALAXY Classroom is interactive learning with proven results. We engage all students as active learners and bring many best-practices in teaching and learning together with an extensive array of resources. Full-school-year curricula include hands-on and minds-on investigations, take-home extensions, interdisciplinary connections and teacher learning opportunities with ongoing support — all delivered through state-of-the-art telecommunications and quality interactive/inquiry-based video.

GALAXY expands teaching and learning experiences like no other medium has before. GALAXY Classroom is a compelling and interactive integrated network for learning, dedicated to delivering grade-appropriate content that is correlated to curriculum standards and research-based instructional strategies. It is a rich learning adventure facilitating hands-on and minds-on science, extensive reading and writing, student journals, student magazines, Web-based communication and take-home investigations. All student programs are designed to facilitate students' mastery of standards-based content.

Curricula:

GALAXY 2101 — Finders, Seekers, Science Keepers, Science Curriculum for Grades K &1

GALAXY 2102 — Fixer Uppers, Science Curriculum for Grade 2

GALAXY 2103 — Movers and Shakers, Interactive Science Curriculum for Grades 3 & 4

GALAXY 2104 — S.N.O.O.P.S. , Science Curriculum for Grade 5

GALAXY 2113 — The House, Language Arts Curriculum for Grades 3 & 4

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GALAXY Classroom Science Curricula

Finders, Seekers, Science Keepers - Kindergarten and Grade 1
Students undertake real-life science investigations with Marsi the Marsupial as the communicator, Digger the Bear as the observer, and Packy the Pack Rat as the collector and sorter. In their own basement laboratory, they set out to help people learn to explore science, their number one mission in life.

Two year-long curricula help students in grades K and 1 become science seekers. Finders, Seekers, Science Keepers curricula help your students learn science by being totally engaged as young scientists. This program is both teacher-friendly and stimulating hands-on learning for students.

Fixer Uppers - Grade 2
In Fixer Uppers, children gain insights and are encouraged to ask "What Ifs?" These two little words can have a profound effect on the belief that an abundance of "What Ifs?" can lead to a lifetime of inquiry and science learning.

This full-school-year, integrated, interactive science curriculum for grade 2 is supported by a 14-episode video series of 15-minute segments. Fixer Uppers content meets national and state standards and is developed from the physical, life, earth, and space sciences.

Movers and Shakers - Grades 3 and 4
Students participate as active scientists as they get "moving and shaking" to explore standards-based science using age-appropriate scientific thinking. Video characters, hanging out in Grandpa's Garage, engage students in activities that foster inquiry-based learning.

This two-full-year, integrated curriculum for grades 3 and 4 allows students - through compelling video adventures, hands-on investigations and web-based interactivity - to explore content-rich phenomena around the themes of energy, matter and motion.

S.N.O.O.P.S. - Grade 5
In S.N.O.O.P.S., students are the scientists, "dedicated to exploring weird stuff!" Imagine being in the 5th grade and being invited to join a group of scientific explorers because they desperately need your help. Through your journeys, you help save endangered Peregrine falcons. Journeying into a marsh, you discover a major pollution problem in a wetland area. On an archaeological dig, you find patterns as evidence to solve the mystery of the Anasazi. And you even dare to uncover the mystery of a haunted theater.

Video and online interactivity support this full-school-year, integrated, interactive science curriculum for grade 5. Communication is facilitated by interaction among GALAXY students, video characters and professional teaching staff.

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GALAXY Classroom Language Arts Curriculum

The House - Grades 3 and 4
Imagine being in 3rd or 4th grade and finding stories in books that are so exciting that you just can't put them down! Then, through ongoing discussions with your classmates, you generate so many new ideas that you just have to write them down. The House language arts curriculum helps students explore seven themes using the video series, great children's literature, and their own real-life experiences.

Through fax and e-mail connections to other schools, your students become a publisher to share and compare their ideas with other students from across the country. The seven themes explored in The House include: People Are More Than They Appear to Be, Establishing Your Own Space, Who Is a Hero, Be True to Yourself, People Need People, People Networking Together Can Make a Difference, and It's Not Fair!