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[|Next Generation Science Standards]

This is the main website of the Next Generation Science Standards. Included are Performance Expectations for all grade levels in Physical Science, Life Science, Earth/Space Science, and Engineering. Included also are extensive appendices providing supplementary resources (e.g. learning progressions, discussions and case studies focused on reaching under-served populations). Interactive onnections between the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards are also included. [|A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas]

The Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards...is based on a rich and growing body of research on teaching and learning in science, as well as on nearly two decades of efforts to define foundational knowledge and skills for K-12 science and engineering. From this work, the committee concludes that K-12 science and engineering education should focus on a limited number of disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts, be designed so that students continually build on and revise their knowledge and abilities over multiple years, and support the integration of such knowledge and abilities with the practices needed to engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design.

//Taken from the Summary sections of A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas National Academies Press, 2012 // //. // [|Resources for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) professional development: The National Science Teacher Association Learning Center] The National Science Teacher Association has produced many on-line and print resources to support teachers, schools, and districts with implementing the Next Generation Science Standards. Included are archived transcripts of webinars focusing on all of the Science and Engineering Practices, Cross-cutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas.


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 * [[file:Introducing_the_Next_Generation_Science_Standards for admin June 2014.ppt| Presentation to Red Clay Administrators July 2014]]**




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