SAS^® Curriculum Pathways^®

Benefits

• Integrates content and technology into the classroom at no cost to educators. SAS Curriculum Pathways uses a broad range of instructional strategies and techniques, such as visual models, images, diagrams, graphic organizers, audio recordings of literary excerpts, poetry, dialogues, historical documents, and narrated and captioned videos.
• Targets higher-order thinking skills. Tools, simulations, models and examples allow student manipulation and interaction with information, variables, cause-and-effect analysis and graphs to explore, experiment and learn. Students engage in active, collaborative and cooperative learning that challenges them to become critical thinkers and to make connections among ideas.
• Employs a learner-centered approach. Using structured and guided processes, students of varying abilities can better understand concepts and develop skills. Students are motivated to understand ideas through hyperlinked explanations, animations, glossaries and rollover definitions.
• Integrates various instructional strategies. Simulations and real data drawn from the Web and presented in learning activities permit students to experience and understand real-world applications. They can test a hypothesis and validate conclusions to construct their understanding through interactive Web sites to bring external learning into the classroom.
• Incorporates formative as well as summative assessments. All lesson plans, Web inquiries and InterActivities have measurable outcomes. InterActivities provide several means of final assessment; formative assessment is built into the learning process, or the teacher can tailor outcomes to meet student needs. Formative assessment can be accessed repeatedly in preparation for summative assessments.
• Provides eco-friendly delivery and content. Electronic access minimizes the impact on the environment. Science students can learn about environmental impacts and the diversity of life and virtual labs enable students to perform and repeat experiments that would otherwise be too dangerous, toxic, expensive or time-consuming.