As a teacher you wear many hats. You are responsible for getting your kids to read, write, do math, prepare them for testing, and are often required to discipline, parent, and provide emotional support for your students.

When students don’t perform well, it’s often teachers that get blamed. In fact, teacher evaluations and teacher pay are often coupled to how well students perform on standardized tests.  Read this article.

You also know that standardized tests are lousy indicators of a student’s potential, and low scores make students discouraged and disengaged.

If you are a high school teacher, you know that many of your students come to high school science classes unprepared for the material you are required to teach them. Even the best teachers can’t help students build the vocabulary and depth of understanding students need to score well on exams. There simply isn’t enough time to cover all the material in the book!

However, if your high school students had been using a knowledge-based core curriculum where they had the opportunity to build vocabulary and learn real science concepts starting in first grade, you could simply pick up where your elementary and middle school teachers left off. In fact, you could accelerate what you teach your students because they would already know “the language of science.” Test scores would go up. Parents and students would be happy, and you’d have that pay raise you’re needing.

RATATAZ does all the heavy lifting for you. RATATAZ kits introduce core science ideas that are organized into learning progressions that become more complex as students get older. All the materials are included for each lesson, and you will get reusable equipment and pre-measured consumable materials divided into bags that you distribute to activity centers or students. You don’t have to shop for a long list of “extra” items to make the kit work.