Same High-Quality Science, Enhanced for Ease of Use

With Carolina, you get the same high-quality OpenSciEd materials with enhancements designed to save teachers time, save schools money, and enhance safety and accessibility for all.  

What’s the same? 

Carolina offers the same high-quality science instruction as the OER version. 

Materials include the same storylines, routines, and lesson instructions. 

Students experience the same phenomena and problems and record the same data and observations. 

Carolina’s middle school program earned the same scores from EdReports. 

What’s unique?

Carolina’s scientists and teachers tested each lesson to create a version that is easy to use and cost-effective. 

  • Streamlined procedures and equipment 
  • Redesigned Teacher Guides 
  • Reorganized Student Editions 
  • Interactive lessons and assessments 
  • Certified Professional Learning 

See Carolina's Enhancements:

Elementary School

Middle School

High School

Like any curriculum, OpenSciEd requires materials and supportWhen you partner with Carolina, you get everything you need for classroom success from a single, trusted, and reliable supplier.

Jim Ryan

“It is a pleasure to partner with Carolina … to offer a Certified Version of our OpenSciEd science curriculum. I am impressed with how Carolina understood our vision, paired it with their expertise in designing investigations, and created a custom version with enhancements to the units. We are excited that science teachers and students have a new option to transform their science education experience.”

– Jim Ryan, Executive Director of OpenSciEd 

The Carolina Certified Version includes:

Kits and Materials

Flexible and all-inclusive options for complete kits,
refurbishment materials, and individual components.

Kits contain all required materials—both consumable
and non-consumable—to facilitate hands-on
lab activities for the entire class.

Redesigned Print

Redesigned print versions of Teacher Editions and Student Resources.

Improved format, layout and labeling and easy to read and follow.

ADA Compliant Teacher Editions

ADA Compliant Student Editions

Enhanced Digital

All instructional resources, including videos and simulations,
are available in one place via Carolina Science Online.

Class licenses all for assignable content for students
and reporting for teacher and administrators.

Teacher access to basic digital resources is included in kit purchase.

Kits and Materials

Flexible and all-inclusive options for complete kits,
refurbishment materials, and individual components

Class licenses allow for assignable, interactive content
for students and reporting for teachers and administrators

Unique versions of Teacher and Student Editions

professional learning image and logo

Professional Learning


Launch OpenSciEd with confidence—Carolina supports your curriculum rollout with Certified Professional Learning and hands-on guidance. We’re here for you, start to finish. 

You can’t afford to wait! Contact a sales rep. today and find out how much time and money you can save!