Bundling Middle School Rationale Elementary Considerations K-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014

BundlingMiddle School Rationale

Elementary Considerations

K-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014

NGSSSetting a New Course


4 A Model

Instruction Builds Toward PEs

Performance Expectation

How Does One Bundle?

California Science Expert Panel (SEP)

27 Science Experts who are representative of the SRT

– K-12 Teachers, COE Science Leaders, IHE Faculty, Business, Industry, and Informal Science Centers

– Noted Scientist Advisors•Dr. Bruce Alberts•Dr. Helen Quinn•Dr. Art Sussman


Given:

- NGSS middle school in grade span- NGSS as DCI or Topic arrangement- CA instructional materials adoption dictates grade level placement

Path to MS Arrangement


Action:

• SEP #1: Explore arrangements;current integrated lite;research

Decision to integrate• SEP #2: Data from public meetings

Set criteria• SEP #3: Data from SRT; NGSS

topic arrangement

Path to MS Arrangement

What Research Says

• CA SS&C: Students in integrated biology scored the same or better than students in traditional biology on the Golden State Exam. Scott, G (2000)• All [top scoring ]countries require participation in integrated science instruction through Lower Secondary and seven of 10 countries continue that instruction through Grade 10, providing a strong foundation in scientific literacy. Achieve (2010).

Criteria for DesignPEs must :Be arranged to provide a TRANSITION from

elementary to high school

ALIGN with CCSS ELA and Math

Build WITHIN and ACROSS grade levels

Be BALANCED in complexity and quantity at each grade

INTEGRATE engineering appropriately

Dr. Art Sussman:“…the SEP very seriously considered the option of having

discipline-focused concepts …It quickly became very clear that there had to be foundational physical science concepts in grade 6 to be able to do …life and earth science concepts…. That combination of needing some physical science in grade 6 but not being able to do all physical science in grade 6 made the discipline-specific approach impossible.

Dr. Bruce Alberts[With this arrangment] the students will reinforce what they learned the previous year, returning to related ideas, and the focus in every year will be on SCIENCE itself, not biology, or earth sciences, or the physical sciences.”

PhotosynthesisNatural Resources

EnergyChemistry

Reminder!!

PEs are a list at each grade level

How you “bundle” them for instruction is up to you or your district.


Articulation One Example

Life Science• 8th Natural Selection7th Ecosystems6th Cells/Organisms5th Food Chains/Webs4th Internal and External

Structures/FunctionsK-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014

ExampleIntegration 7th Grade

Ecosystems; photosynthesi

s

Natural resources

; rocks and

mineralsChemical properties

and reactions

Matter cycles; energy flows

Cause

and effect



Natural selectio

n

Earth History

and Space

Science

Energy

scale

stability



Cells and organis

ms

Weather and

climate

EnergySystems and system models

Patterns


Creative Implementation

•Teach life, earth or physical 6th, 7th and 8th grade

•Combine expertise at grade level—students rotate; teachers stay in discipline

•Teachers collaborate to share expertise with colleagues

•Ease in implementation over the next several years

•State fully funds professional development!K-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014

Implementation Timeline

2013: Adoption of the Ca NGSS

2014: CST 5, 8, 10 Science Assessment on current Ca science standards

2014: Science Framework begins

2015-2016: Earliest Implementation (more likely 2016-2017)

2016-2017: Science Instructional Materials

???: Science assessment on CaNGSS


Elementary Work Group

Place the PEs by grade level into the pocket charts.

What do you notice about the learning progression for life science? Earth science? Physical science? Engineering?

Select Grade 4: how might you bundle those PEs

Be prepared to share your thinkingK-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014

Middle School Work Group

Use the PEs cut outs from 7th grade.How might you bundle them?Be prepared to share your ideas.Read the Rationale Document from

CDE for grade 7. How does the thinking in that document resonate with your thinking as you bundled the PEs?


Documents

Bundling Middle School Rationale Elementary Considerations K-12 Alliance/WestEd 2014