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Our forward-thinking and groundbreaking research projects result in insightful and inspiring learning materials, many for free. Curricula, teacher resources, games, web-based tools and more, are published and distributed by a variety of publishers. Here you’ll find all the available products created or co-developed by TERC. To order or download, simply follow the links to the product pages.

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Talking Mathematics: Supporting Children’s Voices
Talking Mathematics: Supporting Children’s Voices

The Talking Mathematics project explored ways teachers support mathematical discourse in elementary classrooms.

Teaching Science to English Language Learners
Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Teaching Science to English Language Learners combines research findings with classroom vignettes and the perspectives of teachers to support your efforts to see diversity as a resource in the science classroom.

Teaching with Mathematical Argument—Strategies for Supporting Everyday Instruction
Teaching with Mathematical Argument—Strategies for Supporting Everyday Instruction

Despina Stylianou and Maria Blanton show how building daily instruction around mathematical argumentation can enliven your classroom and re-engage your students.

Ten-Minute Math: Activities and Games for Grades K-5
Ten-Minute Math: Activities and Games for Grades K-5

Suggestions for quick explorations known as “ten-minute math” are woven throughout the units to support and balance the in-depth work of each unit.

The Child and the Scientist
The Child and the Scientist

As a supplement to the Inquiry Project, this collection begins each curriculum with two essays—the first presents the scientist’s perspective and the second presents the child’s perspective.

The Evolving Minds Project
The Evolving Minds Project

The Evolving Minds Project teaches evolution by natural selection in 3rd grade classrooms.

The Inquiry Project Curricula & PD
The Inquiry Project Curricula & PD

The Inquiry Project takes a unique approach to a study of matter for grades 3–5, bringing together core ideas, scientific practices, and crosscutting concepts.

VideoReView
VideoReView

Use video technology to see patterns in students’ learning you couldn’t see before.

What’s the Weather? Unit eBooks
What’s the Weather? Unit eBooks

What’s the Weather? encourages students to build ideas of science content and process through hands-on and online investigation of the weather in their location.

Zoombinis
Zoombinis

Zoombinis, an award-winning adventure game, engages players in guiding little blue Zoombinis on a “fun but perilous” journey featuring 12 logic and computational thinking puzzles, each with 4 levels of difficulty.