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Crosscutting Concepts

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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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Integrating science with other subject standards (page 125 in MSTE Curriclum Framework)

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“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.”

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Different assessments for science learning: exit slips, participation rubrics, models, performance tasks, etc...

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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Lunar Phase Simulator - Lunar Phases - NAAP

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Home › NAAP Labs › Lunar Phases › Lunar Phase Simulator

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Classroom Strategy: Moon Phases Word Wall

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Classroom Strategy: Moon Phases Word Wall

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Student's can create their own notebook at the beginning of the year to record notes, data, assignments.. ECT

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This is a free research based online text for teachers that explains how to teach K-8 science.

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The Next Generation Science Standards are the national standards for science education. The standards include colored foundation boxes to help teachers identify the key components of a performance expectation (disciplinary core idea, science and engineering practice, and cross cutting concept)

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Improving Science Education Through Three-Dimensional Learning

Quick Search Next Generation Science Standards

THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE LEARNING

Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science. These dimensions are combined to form each standard-or performance expectation-and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.

Crosscutting Concepts help students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design.

When these concepts, such as "cause and effect", are made explicit for students, they can help students develop a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world around them.

Science and Engineering Practices describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by "inquiry" in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) are the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines. These core ideas build on each other as students progress through grade levels and are grouped into the following four domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering.

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GET TO KNOW

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K-12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The NGSS were developed by states to improve science education for all students.

A goal for developing the NGSS was to create a set of research-based, up-to-date K-12 science standards. These standards give local educators the flexibility to design classroom learning experiences that stimulate students' interests in science and prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship.

Get to Know the Standards

IMPLEMENT

The NGSS call for a three-dimensional approach to K-12 science instruction. This represents a significant transition from previous state standards. That's why effective implementation demands a great deal of collaboration and patience among states, districts, schools, teachers, and students.

Thoughtful and coordinated approaches to implementation will enable educators to inspire future generations of scientifically literate students. That is the vision of the NGSS. This website provides a range of high-quality resources that empower educators, administrators, parents, and the general public to help bring this vision to life.

Find Tools and Resources

WHY

Science-and therefore science education-is central to the lives of all Americans.

A high-quality science education means that students will develop an in-depth understanding of content and develop key skills-communication, collaboration, inquiry, problem solving, and flexibility-that will serve them throughout their educational and professional lives.

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Home Page | Next Generation Science Standards

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Improving Science Education Through Three-Dimensional Learning Quick Search Next Generation Science Standards Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science. These dimensions are combined to form each standard-or performance expectation-and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.

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"In the end, then, the process of observation leads to something very special. The human brain being what it is, when we find regularities in the world around us, we ascribe those regularities to a knowable cause, whether it be the actions of a spirit or the operation of a natural law. We produce a picture of the universe in which some cause produces the regularities we see."

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At each clock time, students will have different classmates to help make grouping students much easier.

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Scholastic Study Jams is a website with short science and math videos for students in K-8. They also have quizzes and powerpoint, and key vocabulary identified for each topic.

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StudyJams! Interactive Math and Science Activities | Scholastic.com

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Introduce and reinforce more than 200 math and science topics with videos, slideshows, step-by-step tutorials, and other activities.

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Resource: MA Science Technology and Engineering Standards: 

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These are the state science standards for preK-12. Alone with the standards, they include themes for each grade level and a helpful set of appendices.