These presentations will aim to support educators as they discover a new way to teach the standards through digital tools and content.

The NASA Infinscope project, based out of Arizona State University, develops free NGSS-aligned classroom-ready content for K-16 instructors. These products utilize custom simulations and immersive virtual field trips to engage learners and cover a wide variety of Earth science based, interdisciplinary topics such as ocean acidification, the nitrogen cycle, mass extinction events, and more. In addition to ready-made content, NASA Infiniscope offers educators tools that enable the development of immersive virtual field trips and customized lessons that support choice-based learning and digital storytelling.

Tour It is a free, user-friendly, virtual field trip tool that gives educators agency to create professional, locally relevant digital learning experiences. They can use virtual field trips to develop labs where learners can gather observations and data, field trips to immerse learners in the culture and community of a place, and even make an accessible digital version of an annual field trip for students who are unable to join or need additional time to process.

The Simple Authoring Tool is an open-source digital platform currently in BETA for lesson development and delivery. Educators can create their own digital lessons and deploy them to their classes with or without a learning management system (LMS). From single lessons to units or courses, teachers can create a library of digital content that can be used at scale, increasing accessibility and differentiating resources. The use of student agency and formative feedback can fill knowledge gaps, re-teach essential content, and provide choice.

This session will provide a brief overview of content available and demonstrations of the platform tools.