Hello Chesapeake Science Teachers!

VST Professional Learning

Explore classroom-ready science resources and see how VST can help students ask questions, use evidence, analyze data, and explain their thinking.

What We’ll Explore

We will move through these resources together, then finish with a live look at the VST external tool Chesapeake is helping test.

First

Overview of VST

See how VST provides ready-to-use resources that make student thinking visible and create opportunities to move that thinking forward.

Explore VST

Beginning of the Year

Popular Beginning-of-Year Resources

Open these ready-to-use activities as we explore ways to begin the school year with scientific thinking and discussion.

Lab Safety Rules CER Mystery Images New Sandwich, Salad, or Soup CER New Correlation vs. Causation New

CER Activity

My Dad Is a Space Alien

Use this fun video, its companion worksheet, and the CER guides to help students build a claim, select evidence, and explain their reasoning.

Watch the Video Open the Worksheet Teacher CER Guide Student CER Guide: Make a Copy

Graph and Data Skills

Graph Skill Builders

Explore activities that strengthen students’ ability to read axes, recognize patterns, interpret relationships, and support conclusions with data.

Explore Graph Skill Builders

Then We’ll Explore

The VST External Tool

We will open the VST external tool together and explore its growing collection of activities available directly within Chesapeake’s learning platform.

Live Guided Tour