Stations, not a lesson sequence
A module breaks down into ten to twelve self-contained workstations. Each one has a station card, an experiment sheet and a logbook page, and is designed for one double period and a team of three or four.
The system
What one module actually contains
From year 7 upwards every module follows the same binding blueprint. That is the point: a school adopting a second module does not have to learn a second structure.
The blueprint
Six things that are in every module
Each of these is a component that exists in the documents, not an intention.
A project that needs the measurements
Every module ends in something the students build or produce. The decisions in that project depend on the values measured at the stations, so the practical work is not decoration.
An optimisation loop as a required step
First run with a measured value, a named weakness, exactly one justified change, second run, comparison. What is marked is whether the change was reasoned and its effect measured – not whether the result improved.
Two language levels in every student document
Standard and supported. The supported version is not easier content: it is the same demand with more scaffolding. Vocabulary cards, sentence frames and a one-page summary come with it.
Help cards in four steps
Prompt, partial step, worked route, full solution – for every station. Students tick which card they used in the logbook, and using one costs no marks. That is why they actually reach for it.
Assessment that is written down in advance
161 points across 47 listed positions, plus a marking scheme for the end-of-module test. Students can read what their work will be measured against before they start.
The scale
25 documents per module
Roughly 900 to 1,000 pages. This is what a school receives for a single six-week unit.
| Group | Contents |
|---|---|
| Teacher material | handbook, module plan, research methods, lesson plans |
| Student material | experiment instructions, experiment cards, subject texts, logbook, extension tasks, project brief, one-page summary |
| Language material | vocabulary cards, sentence frames, help cards |
| Assessment | end-of-module test in three versions, competence check, marking grid, solutions |
| Equipment | material box list, separating reusable equipment from consumables |
All of it is in German. The student and teaching material is additionally supplied as editable Word files, so a school can adapt it to its own formats.
Who it is for
German-curriculum schools
NexaMINT is built for German schools and German schools abroad – for departments that plan science as a sequence rather than as single lessons, and that work with mixed-ability, multilingual groups.
That second point shapes the whole system. At a German school abroad the normal case is a student who is strong in the subject but whose German is not yet sufficient for its technical language. So the language support is not an add-on: the two levels are written together with the content, and the language mark is reported separately from the subject mark.
Two modules shown in full
Two modules are documented on the German site in complete detail – every station, diagrams taken from the material, the project brief and the assessment. Useful even without German: the structure is visible from the tables and figures.
The full module map
All 40 modules for years 7 to 10, with subjects, core content and development status.