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Preparing for the Next Generation Science Standards October 22, 2013

Preparing for the Next Generation Science Standards October 22, 2013. Brian Womack - GRREC Science Consultant. Learning Objectives. Understand the student-centered vision of the NGSS.

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Preparing for the Next Generation Science Standards October 22, 2013

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  1. Preparing for the Next Generation Science Standards October 22, 2013 Brian Womack - GRREC Science Consultant

  2. Learning Objectives • Understand the student-centered vision of the NGSS. • Focus on the three dimensions that are foundational to each standard including disciplinary core ideas, cross-cutting concepts, and with special emphasis, the science/engineering practices. • Identify free online resources to help better prepare for new standards. • Experience lessons/activities that align to the NGSS with focus on specific science/engineering practices. • Determine the steps for implementing the NGSS.

  3. Top Ten Things to Know About the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) The vision for science education described in A Framework for K-12 Science Education has two key ideas driving the development of the Next Generation Science Standards: a) Students should learn how scientific knowledge is acquired and how scientific explanations are developed. b) Students should learn how science is used, in particular through the engineering design process, and they should come to appreciate the distinctions and relationships between engineering, technology, and applications of science. (Brunsell, 2012) c) Both ideas involve major shifts in science curricula and instructional practices.

  4. Top Ten Things to Know About the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) 2)All of the information below can be found at www.nextgenscience.org 3) National Research Council’s A Framework for K-12 Science Education is the “critical first step” that guided the construction of the NGSS with the most current research on what science all students should know (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165). 4) NSTA’s Reader’s Guide to A Framework for K-12 Science Education, is available from NSTA’s website, is a manageable document to read and understand how the science standards were developed (http://www.nsta.org/publications/press)

  5. Top Ten Things to Know About the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) 5) The National Academy of Sciences, Achieve, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Science Teachers Association were charged with the task of developing the NGSS. There were 26 lead states that had input in standards development including Kentucky. 6) The draft standards are divided by grade in grades K-5. However, the middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) standards are grade banded. Model course pathways for middle school are available. 7) Each standard is written as a student performance expectation and shows connections to other grade level and content level science standards as well connections to the Math and English/Language Arts Common Core Standards (The NGSS is not a curriculum document).

  6. Top Ten Things to Know About the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) 8) Each Student Performance Expectation is derived from Three Organizing Dimensions: • Science and Engineering Practices (“Relevance”) • Disciplinary Core Ideas (“Content”) • Crosscutting Concepts (“ideas connecting all content”)

  7. Top Ten Things to Know About the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) • The Framework identifies eight Science and Engineering practices that mirror the practices of professionals in the science/engineering field, seven Cross Cutting Concepts, and 44 Disciplinary Core Ideas (the limited number of “core” ideas in science and engineering both within and across the curriculum. allows for increased depth, recognizes there is no way to cover the ever expanding information in science). 10) For more information about the NGSS visit KDE’s web page at http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/sci/Pages/default.aspx

  8. Collaborative Effort

  9. Tablecloth Activity

  10. Vision of the Framework • Number off 1 – 9, form groups with like number • Read assigned section • Create a tablecloth • Rotate around the tablecloth • Prepare to share whole group • Provide explanation and main ideas from your assigned section • 30 seconds/group!

  11. “Engaging in the practices of science helps students understand how scientific knowledge develops (Framework, pg. 42)…developing evidence-based models, arguments, and explanations is key to both developing and demonstrating understanding of an accepted scientific viewpoint (Framework, pg. 48).”

  12. What does Achieve say about the Vision of the NGSS? • Stephen Pruitt Video

  13. What Resources are Out There? • www.NSTA.org – free webinars • http://www.nextgenscience.org/ • www.Youtube.com – Bozeman Science • http://phet.colorado.edu/ - interactive simulations w/Texas Instruments

  14. Science and Engineering Practices • Asking questions (science) and defining problems (engineering) • Developing and using models • Planning and carrying out investigations • Analyzing and interpreting data • Using mathematics, information and computer technology, and computational thinking • Constructing explanations (science) and designing solutions (engineering) • Engaging in argument from evidence • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

  15. Disciplinary Core Ideas • Physical Sciences • PS-1: Matter and Its Interactions • PS-2: Motion and stability: Forces and Interactions • PS-3: Energy • PS-4: Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

  16. Disciplinary Core Ideas • Life Sciences • LS-1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes • LS-2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics • LS-2: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits • LS-4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

  17. Disciplinary Core Ideas • Earth and Space Sciences • ESS-1: Earth’s place in the universe • ESS-2: Earth’s systems • ESS-3: Earth and human activity

  18. Disciplinary Core Ideas • Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of Science • ETS-1: Engineering Design • ETS-2: Links among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

  19. Crosscutting Concepts • Patterns • Cause and effect • Scale, proportion, and quantity • Systems and system models • Energy and matter • Structure and function • Stability and change

  20. Standards: “Nexus” of 3 Dimensions • Not separate treatment of “content” and “inquiry” (No “Chapter 1”) • Curriculum and instruction needs to do more than present and assess scientific ideas – they need to involve learners in using scientific practices to develop and apply the scientific ideas. Crosscutting Concepts Core Ideas Practices

  21. Analysis of HS standards for Physical Sciences How to read the NGSS • HS PS Structure and Properties of Matter on p.4 • Vision of experiences needed to meet performance expectations (standards) • Connections • To math? • To ELA?

  22. “Some important themes pervade science, mathematics, and technology and appear over and over again, whether we are looking at an ancient civilization, the human body, or a comet. They are ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries and prove fruitful in explanation, in theory, in observation, and in design.” From AAAS as quoted in the Framework, pg. 83

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