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Classroom Activities, categorized by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

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To identify and shine a spotlight on emerging examples of quality lessons and units designed for the NGSS, Achieve launched the EQuIP Peer Review Panel for Science (PRP). NextGenScience, the former Achieve science team, continues this work, managing reviews that use the EQuIP Rubric for Science (Ver…

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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14 NGSS Teaching Resources for the Classroom

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14 NGSS Teaching Resources for the Classroom

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In our last blog post on NGSS challenges, we discussed some of the issues facing teachers trying to implement NGSS in the classroom.

In this post, teachers will find three primary groups of NGSS resources to help them in the classroom. Two groups focus on those classroom resources with lesson plans and those without. The third group offers teacher tutorials to help educators deliver an NGSS curriculum.

These curated resources work with Legends of Learning's 90 lessons, 800 games, and thousands of assessment items based on NGSS and state standards. In addition, our Earth and Space lessons also have lesson plans. Check them out today!

And with that, please find the NGSS resources below.

Resources with Lesson Plans

1) eGFI: Engineering Go For It (eGFI) offers a wide variety of lesson plans for middle school science. These lessons help teachers meet the required science and engineering practices (SEP) aspect of NGSS implementation.

2) NGSS on the NSTA Site: Is it crazy to think that the curator of the NGSS standards would also have a great series of NGSS resources, too? Of course not. The NSTA provides an excellent source of lesson plans and content for their classrooms.

3) OpenEd: It will take some sifting, but OpenEd has an incredible amount of NGSS-aligned lesson plans, quizzes, homework assignments, videos, and games. Most of the content covers the DCI (Disciplinary Core Ideas) as well as crosscutting concepts (CCC). Search away!

4) PBS Learning Media: Like GLOBE (below), PBS Learning Media offers plenty of content in a wide variety of formats, from video to traditional documents and everything in between. The search feature allows you to sift through the content by topic or standard, and even find lesson plans. Enjoy this great series of NGSS resources!

5) Q?rius from the Smithsonian: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History offers Q?rius resources for teachers seeking to bring the Smithsonian into their classroom. Q?rius delivers 30 Earth and Life Science topics, all of which include printable lessons.

Resources without Lesson Plans

6) The GLOBE Program: This resource provides content based on education standards from across the world, with a focus on the National Science Education Standards in the United States. While NGSS was not the focal point for the United States, GLOBE does focus on data collection and the scientific process, which meets the SEP component of the NGSS. You will need to use Teacher's Guide search to find NGSS compliant content, but there is plenty to find.

7)SERC K-8 Activities: The ultimate curated source of SERC activities, this site gives teachers access to hundreds of Earth and Space, Life, and Physical Science tools. You will find classroom activities, field activities, lab activities and more here.

8) Science Snacks: Science Snacks from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute offer a wide variety of hands-on science activities based on museum exhibits. A (linked) guide helps teachers align the activities to the NGSS standard set they are working on.

9) Sophia for Teachers: This site offers a series of NGSS lesson content, usually a video or written tutorial followed by a quiz. The library of NGSS content is far from complete here, but you can find some good complimentary resources.

10) Understanding Science: Offered by UC Berkeley, Understanding Science offers a group of 18 science sources for middle school. Content ranges from classroom resources, field resources, videos, and articles.

Teacher Tutorials

11) Bozeman: If you like video tutorials, this site is for you. Featuring Hamish Todd, the Bozeman site offers short tutorials for teachers to help them implement individual lessons as well as SEPs and CCCs. Check it out!

12) A Framework for K-12 Science Education: This book presents the logic behind the implementation of NGSS. It is a useful read for teachers trying to understand the new standards.

13) Inquiry-Based Learning Tutorial: If you are looking to expand beyond content and want to incorporate the scientific inquiry aspect of SEP into your classroom, then check out this video tutorial from the Ontario Science Centre. Find the first of four videos below!

14) Teaching the Next Generation's Science: Created by the Lewis Center's Academy for Academic Excellence, this online tutorial seeks to help teachers understand the NGSS.

Legends of Learning also maintains a Pinterest Board filled with NGSS resources. Follow it to be updated when we add something new!

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In our last blog post on NGSS challenges, we discussed some of the issues facing teachers trying to implement NGSS in the classroom. In this post, teachers will find three primary groups of NGSS resources to help them in the classroom. Two groups focus on those classroom resources with lesson plans and those without.

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Resources for Implementing Three-Dimensional Science Assessments
As educators, districts, and states implement new science standards, they are faced with creating and implementing new three-dimensional assessments to help monitor student progress and provide feedback to students, parents, and teachers. Achieve has worked with teachers, states, and researchers to develop a variety of tools and resources to help design and implement assessments that are worth students' and teachers' time.
Task Annotation Project in Science: The Task Annotation Project in Science (TAPS) was launched to provide an answer to the questions "what does it look like to ask students to demonstrate progress toward three-dimensional standards?" and "what are the most important features of high-quality science tasks?" This suite of resources includes annotated examples of assessment tasks for elementary, middle, and high school as well as a series of short resources that highlight the major takeaways across the whole project.

Tennessee District Science Network Task Library: In early 2019, NextGenScience launched the Tennessee District Science Network (TDSciN), a group of six districts in Tennessee working collaboratively to improve their science programs and move towards the vision of science education reflected in the Tennessee Academic Standards for Science. As part of this work, teachers from each district collaborated in cross-district educator workgroups to develop a library of assessment tasks. These tasks and accompanying resources can deepen educators' understanding of classroom tasks that measure student proficiency in today's science standards.

Science Cognitive Complexity Framework: This framework offers a new approach to capturing and communicating the complexity of summative assessment items and tasks designed for three-dimensional standards. The complexity framework can be used to assess the degree to which an assessment task asks students to intellectually engage in and make use of disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts in service of sense-making. The new framework allows for both the analysis of individual items or tasks and the holistic analysis of multi-component tasks or item clusters.

A recording of an introductory webinar on the science framework is available here.

Science Assessment Criteria: This document describes the most important features of statewide summative assessments designed for three-dimensional standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education, such as the NGSS.

Science Assessment Task Screening Tools: These two tools are intended to assist educators in evaluating science assessment tasks to determine whether they are designed for three-dimensional science standards based on the Framework for K-12 Science Education, such as the Next Generation Science Standards.

Transforming Science Assessment: Challenges and Recommendations for States: This brief describes some key challenges associated with developing assessments for new three-dimensional science standards and recommendations for states to consider.

Transforming Science Assessment: Systems for Innovation: This series of resources is designed to provide state education leaders with 1) information about how states are currently pursuing statewide assessment systems in science; 2) analyses of what features influence different approaches, with an eye to supporting state leaders as they make their own decisions regarding science assessment systems; 3) detailed state profiles that highlight how and why some states have made decisions regarding designing and enacting different examples of systems of assessment; and 4) a how-to guide for policymakers looking to enact systems of assessment in science.

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As educators, districts, and states implement new science standards, they are faced with creating and implementing new three-dimensional assessments to help monitor student progress and provide feedback to students, parents, and teachers. Achieve has worked with teachers, states, and researchers to develop a variety of tools and resources to help design and implement assessments that are worth students' and teachers' time.

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For more than 35 years, the Teacher Institute has been creating Science Snacks -hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom. Each activity uses inexpensive, easily-available materials, offers detailed instructions and images, and is adaptable to a wide range of curricula, content areas, and grade levels.

Engaging with phenomena

Science Snacks provide the opportunity to notice, wonder about, and experiment directly with natural phenomena. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) task teachers with framing learning around natural phenomena that inspire students to ask and answer questions using the Science and Engineering Practices.

We believe that by grounding inquiry in phenomena that are relevant to your students, you can thoughtfully sequence activities to help students investigate and explain the world around them. A phenomenon can be simple enough to explore through a single activity or complex enough to drive investigations all semester.

This diagram shows how classroom investigations can be organized to support students in exploring a complex phenomenon:

We have created two planning tools to help teachers adapt activities to align with NGSS, and to sequence activities to explain a phenomenon. Whether you use Exploratorium Science Snacks or explorations from other sources, the planning tools below can help you align your classroom practice with the learning described by NGSS.

"Adapting an Activity for NGSS" Planning Tool

Traditional science teaching often follows a pattern of introducing concepts and then confirming them with classroom experiences. The Next Generation Science Standards asks teachers to reframe this practice. Rather than simply presenting and proving concepts, NGSS tasks teachers with initiating learning through phenomena and then supporting students as they work to explain those phenomena, building their own understandings of concepts over time by engaging in authentic science practices.

Our planning tool, called " Adapting an Activity for NGSS," can help support the process of modifying an activity to foreground and engage students with phenomena.

Download PDF: Adapting an Activity for NGSS

"Creating Activity Sequences for NGSS" Planning Tool

By carefully selecting activities that are engaging and accessible, and that provide key pieces of content, teachers can leverage student interest to make connections not only with a phenomenon, but also between one activity and the next. That's the goal of our " Creating Activity Sequences for NGSS " planning tool.

Since a primary goal of NGSS is for student questions to drive learning, teachers need to be prepared with investigations that can help students make their own connections. This planning tool is designed to help you consider the conclusions and questions students may generate in an activity, and use them to build an instructional sequence.

Download PDF: Creating Activity Sequences for NGSS

Want to see an example? This sample sequence, which focuses on biological concepts around cells, will give you an idea of how a sequence can be created from several related Science Snacks.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant DRL-1503153 and the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Science Education Partnership Award Number R25OD016525. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or NIH.

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Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Planning Tools | Exploratorium

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Exploratorium Snacks are ideal candidates for NGSS activities because they support teachers in bringing phenomena into the classroom for students to explore. Snacks are adaptable to a wide range of curriculum, grade levels, and content areas. Use our planning tool to help adapt Snacks into NGSS-aligned investigations.

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Sample our easy-to-implement strategies and lessons to bring science notebooking into your classroom or home!

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I'm obsessed with keeping notebooks. I have drawers full of them for collecting thoughts and ideas generated during faculty meetings, conferences, and workshops. So many treasures: lists of things to do, illustrations to remind me how to replicate, questions, unfamiliar terms, and examples of strategies I want to remember.

So it's hardly a surprise that notebooking is a key practice in my elementary science instruction! I've tried fancy hardcover notebooks with lines, formatted templates with space for drawing, and lined paper. But do you know what works best? The simplest option: blank papers stapled inside of a file folder. Why? Blank pages allow for flexibility and freedom.

Science notebooks evolve throughout the year along with students, becoming more complex as students gain a better understanding of how data is collected and recorded. For example, a kindergarten class starts off with a general notebook for gathering and recording information, then gradually to specific-topic notebooks. A second grade class starts with general observations, then moves towards formal data recording.

Here are four ways to use science notebooks:

1. Help students create their own reference sheets.

I use a direct approach sometimes, asking students to write down definitions or copy a specific diagram. These entries serve as references for students.

2. Guide students in recording their discoveries.

I use a guided approach and model how to record data and experiences, but leave it up to students to create their own entry.

Open-ended notebook entries are my favorite and the most authentic. Students have total freedom over what they record in their notebooks and how. These entries provide a window to students' thinking and understanding of concepts -- they tell me where and how I can contextualize our experiments.

3. Capture evidence of student learning and understanding.

I often use notebooks to check for students' understanding of concepts and new content vocabulary.

4. Document student growth over time.

Science notebooks provide a permanent record of students' activities and learning and can be included in their portfolios. Notebooks can be used to document student growth and development in science (and literacy) from the beginning of the year.

As a teacher who works with many English language learners and students with disabilities, I appreciate how well all students respond to the opportunities to share their own illustrations, graphs, charts, and words. This improves their ability to organize and explain their ideas and learning. Illustrating a concept in their notebooks can provide a boost of confidence for students who might not otherwise speak up in an oral discussion.

Science notebooks are a powerful way for students to demonstrate understanding of science experiences, and provide teachers with evidence for assessing students' written language development and science learning.

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Four Ways to Think Like a Scientist with Science Notebooks

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I'm obsessed with keeping notebooks. I have drawers full of them for collecting thoughts and ideas generated during faculty meetings, conferences, and workshops. So many treasures: lists of things to do, illustrations to remind me how to replicate, questions, unfamiliar terms, and examples of strategies I want to remember.