Developing the Next Generation Science Standards

1. Developing the Next Generation Science Standards

2. Building on the Past; Preparing for the Future 1990s-2009 Phase I Phase II 1990s 7/2010 – 12/2012 1/2010 - 7/2011

3. Digging Deeper into the Framework for K – 12 Science Education

4. Principles of the Framework • Children are born investigators • Understanding builds over time • Science and Engineering require both knowledge and practice • Connecting to students’ interests and experiences is essential • Focusing on core ideas and practices • Promoting equity

5. Disciplinary Core Ideas Science and Engineering Practices Crosscutting Concepts

6. Science and Engineering Practices

7. Science and Engineering Practices • Asking questions and defining problems • Developing and using models • Planning and carrying out investigations • Analyzing and interpreting data • Using mathematics and computational thinking • Constructing explanations and designing solutions • Engaging in argument from evidence • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information Framework p.41

8. Crosscutting Concepts

9. Crosscutting Concepts • Patterns • Cause and effect • Scale, proportion, and quantity • Systems and system models • Energy and matter • Structure and function • Stability and change Framework 4-1

10. Disciplinary Core Ideas

11. Disciplinary Core Ideas A core idea for K-12 science instruction is a scientific idea that: • Has broad importance across multiple science or engineering disciplines or is a key organizing concept of a single discipline • Provides a key tool for understanding or investigating more complex ideas and solving problems • Relates to the interests and life experiences of students or can be connected to societal or personal concerns that require scientific or technical knowledge • Is teachable and learnable over multiple grades at increasing levels of depth and sophistication

12. Disciplinary Core Ideas: Physical 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

13. Disciplinary Core Ideas: Life 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

14. Disciplinary Core Ideas: Earth and Space Sciences • ESS1 Earth’s place in the universe • ESS2 Earth’s systems • ESS3 Earth and human activity

15. Disciplinary Core Ideas: Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science • ETS1 Engineering design • ETS2 Links among engineering, technology, science and society

16. Overview of the Science Standards Development Process

17. Process for Development of Next Generation Science Standards States and other key stakeholders are engaged in the development and review of the new college and career ready science standards • State Led Process • Writing Teams • Critical Stakeholder Team • Achieve is managing the development process NRC Study Committee members to check the fidelity of standards based on framework

18. Lead State Partners

19. NGSS Writing Team Members

20. Components of the NGSS Public Release

21. Details about the Public Release Goal: To distribute and receive feedback from interested stakeholders; to create a transparent process • The standards will be open for three weeks in May. • The standards and the survey can be accessed at www.nextgenscience.org

22. What are the NGSS? NGSS Are: NGSS Are NOT: Separate sets of isolated inquiry and content standards Curriculum or instructional tasks, experiences or materials. Meant to limit the use of Practices or Crosscutting Concepts in instruction Designed to be separate or isolated experiences • Performance Expectations focused on the nexus of the three dimensions of science learning • Performance Expectations that require students demonstrate proficiency • Designed to lead to a coherent understanding of the Practices, CCC, and DCIs

23. Organization of the NGSS Organized by Disciplinary Content • Physical Science • Life Science • Earth-Space Science • Engineering K-5 • Grade By Grade • Engineering are integrated into performance expectations 6-8 • Grade Banded • Model Pathways to follow the second public draft 9-12 • Grade Banded • Model Pathways to follow the second public draft

25. Web Delivery of the NGSS All Standards are sortable by • Topic • Discipline • Disciplinary Core Idea • Science and Engineering Practice • Crosscutting Concept • Grade Level/Band Standards can be printed in pdf Additional components available in pdf

26. Shifts in the NGSS • Standards as Performance Expectations reflecting the nexus between Science and Engineering Practice, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas • Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts are continuums • Particular practices and/or crosscutting concepts emphasized for clarity and assessment purposes • Science concepts build coherently across K-12 • Greater focus on deeper understanding and application of less content as opposed to memorization of scientific facts and details • Integration of science and engineering • Coordination with Common Core State Standards

27. Standards’ Architecture

31. Science and Engineering PracticesMatrix

32. Crosscutting Concepts Matrix

33. Disciplinary Core Ideas Science and Engineering Practices Crosscutting Concepts

34. Contact Information Stephen Pruitt, Achieve: spruitt@achieve.org Jennifer Childress, Achieve: jchildress@achieve.org