NGSS-Aligned Curriculum For High School Science

Make science engagement possible for every student

Kognity is here to bridge the gap between NGSS curriculum and classroom implementation—empowering teachers, engaging students, and improving consistency in science instruction.

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NGSS Curriculum Adoption Made Easy

Kognity delivers NGSS-aligned curriculum, empowering teachers with options for personalized instruction. They receive ongoing PD support while the platform’s variety of interactive content fuels student engagement in-class, online, and at-home.

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Boosting student engagement

The Kognity curriculum is delivered via a digital platform full of interactive, phenomena-based content that fuels student curiosity in class, online, and at home. Students learn to make connections through the use of real-world phenomena, keeping them engaged and future-ready.

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Expert-Crafted, Shaped By Teachers

A dedicated team of original NGSS writers, professional learning developers, and experienced teachers come together to create Kognity’s rigorous and reliable content. Mirroring the NGSS, our approach promotes continuous enhancements through peer feedback and open discussion.

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Universal Accessibility

Kognity helps all students through reading assistance features like text-to-speech, visual aids, a picture dictionary, an interactive glossary, and translations into 130+ languages. This lets teachers focus on guiding classroom discussions while students receive support directly in the platform.

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Implementation Made Easy

You’ll receive ongoing support with teacher guides, instructions, and a dedicated professional development specialist for 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins—equipping teachers with the skills and confidence to bring the curriculum to life in their classrooms.

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Three-Dimensional Assessment

To support your students’ science mastery, Kognity offers a variety of assessment options. By using our 3D Performance Tasks, knowledge checks, quizzes, and more, you’ll help boost test scores and see improvement in CCCs, SEPs, and DCIs by making the content more approachable for everyone.

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Reliable Performance Data

Now you can easily track student progress with Kognity’s trusted performance data. Whether it’s formative or summative, you’ll capture built-in assessment moments that show exactly what your students are learning and applying, with real-time feedback to help them stay on track.

High School Science Courses

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High School Science

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High School Science

NGSS Physics

Scope and Sequence & Standards Mapping

Download Scope and Sequence & Standards Mapping documentation for each of Kognity’s high school science courses.

  • Kognity helps me a lot with tracking and understanding how the students are learning, and it takes off a lot of work on my side because I don’t need to prepare anything – it’s all there.

    Andrea Sau

    Biology Teacher, Mott Hall Bronx High School, New York

  • Kognity is much more relatable than your traditional science textbook and is more accessible to different kinds of students.

    Marcos Cabreros

    Chemistry Teacher, Huntington Beach Union High School District, California

  • Kognity supports my teaching of the NGSS. The storyline format and inclusion of species that are native to our area make it easy to pull in local connections to which my students can relate.

    Cheryl Johnson

    Biology Teacher, Casey-Westfield High School, Illinois

  • I love that Kognity fosters the idea that students don't need to know the right answer, they can tell us what they understand so far with activities embedded.

    April Pence

    Chemistry Teacher, Huntington Beach Union High School District, California

  • Compared to other companies or textbooks, Kognity has options.

    Bryan Neal

    Integrated Sciences Special Education Teacher, Belvidere High School, IL

  • We chose Kognity because of their commitment and understanding of our education needs, the platform’s innovative and comprehensive resources and their exceptional teacher training and customer support. The teachers who utilized Kognity’s resources saw an improvement in student engagement, understanding, and assessments.

    Ladele Bernard

    District Curriculum Specialist, Rapides High School, LA

  • I am enthused that Kognity is on the trend that pushes for inquiry-based, student-centered science learning. The kind of education that makes scientists out of young hearts that can critically think and investigate in this information age.

    Newstein Chang

    Biology Teacher, Somerset Hills Regional School District, NJ

  • Kognity has helped me in that so much of the prep work is done for me... Kognity offers so much auto grading and guidance on what sorts of questions should be coming up and even some advice for how to guide students in exploring tough concepts. For my students, Kognity has helped them organize their materials and think about things in new ways through phenomena that they hadn't seen before.

    Jack Elliott-Higgins

    Science Teacher, Boston Green Academy, MA

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Meeting Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) standards

Kognity for High School Science meets the ESSA Level IV (Demonstrates a Rationale) requirements of evidence standards.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can Kognity's platform be used for low, medium, and high tech classrooms?

Yes. While Kognity is a digital platform, we recognize that high school science, guided by NGSS standards, thrives in collaborative, in-person environments. We offer discussion protocols and ‘talk-moves’ to support student inquiry and exploration, regardless of their tech setup or confidence level. Our suggestions are flexible, and teachers—who know their classrooms best—can adapt them as needed.

How does Kognity support equity, access, and inclusion for all?

At Kognity, we believe all students should have access to scientific content, no matter their proficiency level. To support this, we’ve partnered with Microsoft to provide Immersive Reader, a reading assistance tool, that breaks down learning barriers both at home and in the classroom.

With support for over 130 languages, text-to-speech, visual aids, line focus, adjustable reading speeds, a picture dictionary, and an interactive glossary, we strive to help students succeed. We also recommend discussion protocols and ‘talk-moves’ to foster inquiry and exploration, regardless of confidence level, and include vocabulary boxes and an embedded glossary for quick definitions of complex science terms.

More about integrated reading assistance (PDF).

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