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Vision for Science Teaching and Learning

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NGSS Lead State Partners

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Developing the Standards

Instruction

Curricula

Assessments

Teacher Development

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Implementationin Schools

●Not separate treatment of “content” and “inquiry”

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Core Ideas

Practices

Crosscutting Concepts

Implications for Instruction

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Science and Engineering Practices1. Asking questions and defining problems

2. Developing and using models

3. Planning and carrying out investigations

4. Analyzing and interpreting data

5. Using mathematical and computational thinking

6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7. Engaging in argument from evidence

8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

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Science and Engineering Practices1. Asking questions and defining problems

2. Developing and using models

3. Planning and carrying out investigations

4. Analyzing and interpreting data

5. Using mathematical and computational thinking

6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7. Engaging in argument from evidence

8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

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1. Asking questions and defining problems

2. Developing and using models

3. Planning and carrying out investigations

4. Analyzing and interpreting data

5. Using mathematical and computational thinking

6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7. Engaging in argument from evidence

8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Science and Engineering Practices

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Science and Engineering Practices1. Asking questions and defining problems

2. Developing and using models

3. Planning and carrying out investigations

4. Analyzing and interpreting data

5. Using mathematical and computational thinking

6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7. Engaging in argument from evidence

8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

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Cross-Cutting Concepts1. Patterns

2. Cause and Effect

3. Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

4. Systems and System Models

5. Energy and Matter

6. Structure and Function

7. Stability and Change

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Disciplinary Core Ideas● Information today is available virtually at a touch●Students should be able to evaluate and select

reliable sources of scientific information.●This will allow them to continue their science

learning well beyond their K-12 school years.

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Criteria for Selection ofDisciplinary Core Ideas

1. Have broad importance across multiple sciences or engineering disciplines or be a key organizing principle of a single discipline.

2. Provide a key tool for understanding or investigating more complex ideas and solving problems.

3. Relate to the interests and life experiences of students or be connected to societal or personal concerns that require scientific or technological knowledge.

4. Be teachable and learnable over multiple grades at increasing levels of depth and sophistication. That is, the idea can be made accessible to younger students but is broad enough to sustain continued investigation over years.

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Disciplinary Core IdeasPhysical Sciences

●PS1: Matter and its Interactions

●PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

●PS3: Energy

●PS4: Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

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Disciplinary Core IdeasLife Sciences

●LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

●LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

●LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

●LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

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Disciplinary Core IdeasEarth and Space Sciences

●ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe

●ESS2: Earth’s Systems

●ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

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Disciplinary Core IdeasEngineering, Technology, and Applications of Science

●ETS1: Engineering Design

●ETS2: Links among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

● Not separate treatment of “content” and “inquiry”

● Curriculum materials need 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.

Core Ideas

Practices

Crosscutting Concepts

Implications forCurriculum Materials and Instruction

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NGSS Appendix FScience and Engineering Practices

●Briefly review p. 49 – 53 in your binder, of the Framework for K-12 Science Education, which provides an overview of the 8 Science and Engineering Practices

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Analyzing and Interpreting DataWork with your table group:

●Review: “4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data”.

●Which of the bullets listed under grades 6-8 did you engage in during Moons of Jupiter or other investigations?

●What could we have done to engage in some of the other bullets?

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Developing and Using ModelsWork with your table group:

●Review: “2. Developing and Using Models.”

●Which of the bullets listed under grades 6-8 did you engage in during previous investigations?

●What could we have done to engage in some of the other bullets?

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Using Mathematicsand Computational Thinking

Work with your table group:

●Review: “5. Using mathematics and Computational Thinking.”

●Which of the bullets listed under grades 6-8 did you engage in during the previous investigations?

●What could we have done to engage in some of the other bullets?

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Modifying Your Lesson Plan

●…By Implementing Science Practices and Reflections on the Nature of Science

●Individually read the implementation guide, which lists questions to help you emphasize science practices and the nature of science.

●Identify anything that is unclear to you.

●Share your questions with a partner and see if you can resolve what was unclear to you.

Clarifications:

●General question 4 on page 1

●The last two general questions on page 1

●The template for science practice 7, “Engaging in Argument from Evidence”, on page 2

●“Opposing claim”

●Facilitation of a scientific argument that is supported by evidence and reasoning

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Implementing Science Practices and Reflections on the Nature of Science

●Work with a partner and choose one of your investigations to work on.

●Identify at one or two science practices to emphasize (at most two!).

●Identify one or two understandings about the nature of science to reflect on (at most two!).

●Use the planning template for the practice(s) you chose to emphasize and record your modifications.

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Modifying Your Lesson Plan

●Provide a brief description of the original investigation

●Describe how the investigation was modified to emphasize one or more practices

●Describe how the investigation was modified to reflect on one or more ideas about the nature of science

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Sharing your Modifications

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