To meet the needs of the science education community, TELS curricula:
Require only an up-to-date browser and network connections in the classroom
Address consequential science topics across all grade levels
Embed assessments that reveal how students learn as they progress through a project and how the project’s cognitive and social supports contribute to their understanding
Embed professional development supports that enable teachers to view, comment, and score student work; compile student work into a portfolio with responses from multiple projects; and use the file as a grade book or an aid for conferences with students and parents
Create a common look and feel for teachers so that teaching one TELS topic makes teaching the next one straightforward
Click on TELS Modules to see the current curriculum units we have to offer!
Create a common look and feel for students, so that the transition from one TELS project to another is easy
Support registration and archiving so that schools and researchers can easily track student work over multiple projects and years
Offer designers the TELS Design Principles Database—an infrastructure for publishing, connecting, discussing, and reviewing design ideas
Support teachers and researchers who desire to customize projects to local conditions, curriculum sequences, and student needs
Offer open source access to other educational software developers
Take advantage of emerging technologies
Offer developers an authoring environment that incorporates successful curriculum design patterns and principles
