Overview and Updates

OutcomesOutcomes

Discuss the development process of the NGSS

Provide information regarding the NGSS and relationship to CCSS

Goal of NGSSDevelop standards that will be rich in content

and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education. 

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NGSS vs CCSS

• Focus on Content Standards and Practices

• Privately Funded• May be adopted fully or partially

• Literacy in Science• Convened by State Schools Officers and Governors

• Must be adopted in its entirety

Science Testing is mandated by Federal Requirements

California is 1 of 26 Lead State Partners

NGSS Development Process

Two major goals addressed in A Framework for K-12 Science Education are:

•educating all students in science and engineering and

•providing the foundational knowledge for those who will become the scientists, engineers, technologists, and technicians of the future.

A Vision for K-12 Science Education

Three Major dimensions:

Scientific and engineering practices

Crosscutting concepts

Core ideas in four disciplinary content areas

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Conceptual Shifts in the NGSS1. K–12 Science Education Should Reflect the Real World

Interconnections in Science

2. Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts should not be taught in a vacuum; they should always be integrated with multiple core concepts throughout the year.

3. Science concepts build coherently across K-12

4. The NGSS Focus on Deeper Understanding and Application of Content

5. Integration of science and engineering

6. Coordination with Common Core State Standards

Dimension 3: Disciplinary Core Ideas• Physical Sciences

PS 1: Matter and its interactionsPS 2: Motion and stability: Forces and interactionsPS 3: EnergyPS 4: Waves and their applications in technologies for

information transfer

• Life SciencesLS 1: From molecules to organisms: Structures and

processesLS 2: Ecosystems: Interactions, energy, and dynamicsLS 3: Heredity: Inheritance and variation of traitsLS 4: Biological evolution: Unity and diversity

• Earth and Space SciencesESS 1: Earth’s place in the universeESS 2: Earth’s systemsESS 3: Earth and human activity

• Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of ScienceETS 1: Engineering designETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science, and

society

Public Draft of NGSSAvailable now at http://

www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards

Arranged based on the Core IdeasPublic Comment open until January 29, 2013

Resources• Contra Costa County Office of Education

http://www.cocoschools.org/steam

• Next Generation Science Standards

http://www.nextgenscience.org/

CDE updates to the NGSS (http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintrod.asp)

• Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html