NGSS@NSTA: Your
Complete Guide to the Next Generation Science Standards
Last week Achieve released the second (and final) public draft of the Next
Generation Science Standards (NGSS). All science educators, administrators, and
other stakeholders are
strongly encouraged to review the draft and provide feedback online to Achieve
during the comment period, which ends January
29. Review the draft here.NSTA has a vast collection of materials organized by topic and disciplinary core ideas to help you study the second public draft of NGSS. Find them here.
Take a look at the short video developed by Matt Krehbiel, Science Education Program Consultant for the Kansas State Department of Education, that will help you to navigate the Next Generation Science Standards website and the Achieve survey.
Learn more and sign up for one of these upcoming NSTA webinars on Engineering Practices in NGSS (1/15); Using the NGSS Practices in the Elementary Grades (1/29); or Making Connections Between NGSS and Common Core Math and ELA (2/12).
Watch Montana teacher of the year Paul Anderson's comprehensive video series on NGSS.
Take a peek at one of the eight webinars presented earlier this fall that focused on the Scientific and Engineering Practices described in A Framework for K–12 Science Education.
Mark your calendars now and look for more information on the NGSS webinars coming this winter and spring (all of them 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET):
- February
19: Patterns
- March
5: Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation
- March
19: Scale, proportion, and quantity
- April
2: Systems and system models
- April
16: Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation
- April
30: Structure and function
- May
14: Stability and change
Learn more about the new members-only NSTA listserv dedicated solely to NGSS.
Read the January 8 Education Week article "New Science Standards Draft Includes Many Changes."
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