iHub Biology NGSS Storyline Addie Bend - Slide Decks

If you are looking for the best NGSS-aligned curriculum to use with your biology students, look no further than Inquiry Hub. Developed by a team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University, this open-source curriculum follows a "storyline" approach in which all units begin with a puzzling phenomena. One of their units has been reviewed by Achieve and has been rated as an example of "High Quality NGSS Design" (which not many high school curriculums have been able to achieve). To learn more and access their full year Biology curriculum for FREE, click here.

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While their curriculum is free, I have made considerable changes to ALL of their materials. These changes were made to make the activities more interactive by adding visuals and additional lab activities, to provide more scaffolding (sentence starters, drag and drop activities, card sorts, etc.), to improve the pacing (the iHub units are notoriously too long!), and to provide timely moments of direct instruction and recall practice for past concepts. The Jump Into Science version of iHub is one that has been tried and tested on real students over the course of 5 years, and was created (and is still being improved) by a real working teacher.

What are these materials?

- Adapted versions of the slides from the iHub Addie storyline (12 full lessons!) which cover everything the general iHub Addie unit covers PLUS lessons on speciation, evolution, and evidence for evolution

- A pacing overview sheet --> The pacing estimate for this unit is about 55ish school days (~11.5 weeks). More detailed information is provided upon purchase.

I have not purchased any of your other resources. Can I still use these?

Of course you can! However, these slides work BEST when paired with my other resources. Expect the lesson numbers, content, and pacing to differ from iHub’s. Click here to view ALL my resources for the Addie Bend.You can choose to purchase some of the resources, or all of them.

Why are your materials not exactly like the ones on the Inquiry Hub website?

I have taught these units for 5 years with 5 different cohorts of students. I have found most (if not all) of the weaknesses that exist in the curriculum. Many changes were made to improve the curriculum and therefore improve student success. If you have any questions about a change that was made and how to implement it in your classroom, feel free and email me at jennica@jumpintopd.com.

Where are the materials for lessons 13-29 in the evolution unit?

I only have time to teach the Addie bend of iHub’s evolution unit, so I have not taught the Juncos bend and thus I do not have slides for those lessons. Since the Addie bend does not fully cover evolution, evidence of evolution, speciation, and genetics (because iHub included those topics in the Juncos bend), I created the original lessons (9 and 12) included in this resource.

What order do you teach these units in?

The units can theoretically be taught in any order. However, these resources work best when taught in the following order:

iHub Ecosystems Unit:

• Serengeti Bend
• Trees Bend

iHub Evolution Unit:

• Addie Bend

iHub Genetics Unit:

• DMD Bend
• CRISPR Bend

Do you have other resources for the iHub Biology curriculum?

Yes! If you would like to purchase ALL of the above resources in one go, click here to view my iHUB FULL YEAR BUNDLE (note: the Juncos bend is NOT included). If you are interested in downloading a free preview of materials from every unit, click here. You can also click here and use the Custom categories links on the left hand side of the page to help you navigate my store.

Licensing Attribution

InquiryHub Biology is licensed under CC by 4.0

*Changes were made to all lesson materials.

I am not affiliated in any way with Inquiry Hub Biology or Next Generation Science Storylines.