Welcome Educators!

McGraw Hill invites you to integrate AccessScience into your science instruction. The resources on this page will assist you.

Answers to "Test Your Understanding" Questions

The more popular articles in AccessScience include a set of self-assessment questions at the bottom of the page. You and your students will find answers to these questions here.

Distance Learning Support

McGraw Hill has created this useful guide which shows how AccessScience can facilitate the use of virtual classrooms.

About the "Listen" Tool

With ReadSpeaker's webReader, the text on each content page can be read aloud to you with just one click. As a user, you don't have to download anything. Find out more about this helpful tool here.

Hypothesis Guide

For annotating content on AccessScience, McGraw Hill has teamed up with Hypothesis, an open-source collaborative tool that can be used across any digital resource. This Teacher Resource Guide will help you create a free Hypothesis account that you can use with students to save and access annotations in AccessScience and across any other websites you use.

Upcoming Webinars

No public webinars are currently scheduled. Check back soon!

NEW! AccessScience Faculty Panel and Q&A: Hear from STEM faculty members about how they use AccessScience with their students, and get tips on how you can inspire and guide users to deeper understanding with this award-winning resource. This webinar was recorded on January 9, 2024.

Webinar Recordings

From time to time, AccessScience hosts informative webinars on subjects of general scientific interest presented by selected contributors, most of which are faculty members. You and your students may be interested in the following recordings.

• Climate Change—Scientific Consensus and New Frontiers
  Presented by Dr. Rachel Licker, Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

• Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemics
  Presented by Dr. Teri Shors, Professor of Biology & Microbiology, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• Low-Impact Hydropower
  Presented by Staff of the Low-Impact Hydropower Institute

• Nightmare Bacteria: Antibiotic Resistance and its Threat Worldwide
  Presented by Dr. Marcia Pierce, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University

• The Physics of Music
  Presented by Dr. Andy Piacsek, Associate Professor of Physics, Central Washington University 

Search Widget

AccessScience provides an embeddable search widget that allows patrons to search the site directly from your faculty or instructional web pages. Click on the image below to grab the code you need to embed this widget.

Neutrino Astronomy Lesson Plan

This lesson plan offers three consecutive days (~45- to ~60-minute class periods) of narrativized, in-class discussion about the content and concepts conveyed through reading assignments consisting of AccessScience articles, as well as assessment activities and questions. Disciplines covered include astronomy, astrophysics, introductory physics, and particle physics. You can employ it in a traditional lecture or flipped classroom instructional model.

Correlations to Next Generation Science Standards

AccessScience can help students fulfill performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for High School (Grades 9–12). View and download content correlations in Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) arrangements here.