Built for the Georgia Standards of Excellence
Stile helps students build scientific understanding and reasoning through connected learning experiences that deepen thinking over time and prepare students for success in high school science and beyond.
Purposeful tasks. Evidence-based revision. Lessons that advance student thinking.
Thoughtfully designed three-dimensional learning
Georgia’s science standards ask students to do more than learn scientific facts. They ask students to develop and revise explanations as they build understanding over time.
That process is at the heart of Stile. Throughout each unit, students return to meaningful scientific questions, use evidence to support their thinking, and revise their explanations as they learn more. This iterative explanation-building is a core part of authentic three-dimensional learning, and it happens within every lesson and across every unit.
Drawing on the strongest elements of our middle school science curriculum, Stile has been tailored for Georgia. The result is a coherent, sequenced program for grades 6–8 that meets the full depth and specificity of the Georgia Standards of Excellence.
Real-world phenomena from the Peach State
Stile’s phenomena are rooted in real science happening all around the world. But there’s nothing more fascinating than investigating what’s happening right where you live. Stile’s curriculum for Georgia includes brand-new lessons drawn directly from the state.
Georgia’s waves and tides
Georgia’s coastline is shaped by some of the largest tidal swings on the entire southeastern seaboard. Seawater pushes deep into rivers and marshes twice a day, and it’s a big reason Georgia’s shoreline stays mostly clear while Florida’s Gulf coast battles toxic algal blooms nearly every year.
Students explore how waves and tides move water along coastlines and analyze data to understand the causes and effects, including why Georgia’s geography makes such a difference.
The HydrosphereGrade 6S6E3.d
Urban heat islands in Atlanta
Atlanta is known as a city in a forest, yet neighborhoods with dense development, dark surfaces, and little tree canopy run as much as 10°F hotter than the leafy ones nearby.
In this lesson, students analyze real city data to explain why heat varies across neighborhoods. They apply their understanding of thermal energy transfer to design solutions that could actually reduce the problem.
Georgia’s invasive species
Yellow-legged hornets arrived in Georgia in 2023 and have been spreading fast. They’re aggressive predators of native pollinators, and scientists are still working out how far the damage could go.
Students use evidence to explain how this invasive species could disrupt Georgia’s ecosystems — investigating species interactions including competition, predation, and impacts on biodiversity.
Prepare your students for the Georgia Milestones
Georgia’s Milestones End of Grade (EOG) assessment measures students’ science knowledge and reasoning across life, physical, and Earth/space science. Stile’s curriculum builds exactly these skills across all three years, so students arrive at the test ready to think, not just recall.
Georgia Milestones End of Grade
Question
The three jars show the movement of particles in three states of matter.
Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. As dry ice is heated, it goes directly from a solid to a gas through a process called sublimation.
Which sequence of jars shows the change in the motion of particles of dry ice as it sublimes?
- jar P to jar Q
- jar P to jar R
- jar Q to jar R
- jar R to jar P
Stile Practice Test
Question
A student takes a curry out of the oven and heats it in a pot until it bubbles vigorously.
Which order of particle models shows how the water in the curry changes state as it is heated?
- C, then A, then B
- B, then A, then C
- C, then B, then A
- A, then C, then B
Watch a Stile classroom in action
See exactly how a real Stile implementation works in practice. In this case study, teachers share how Stile has saved prep time, boosted student engagement, and made science class the highlight of the day.
Pilot Stile with a team of experts behind you
Stile is all about giving teachers the best possible start. Every Stile pilot comes with hands-on support from a dedicated Teaching and Learning Specialist who understands middle school science and knows how to make curriculum implementation actually work.
They’ll work with your teachers, learn your context, and help you get the most out of every lesson.
