1. Integrating Modeling into the 3-Dimensions of NGSS
Office of STEM
Integration / Innovation
San Joaquin County Office of Education

2. Overview NGSS and Modeling Overview 9-10 am
Laser Jello Modeling Activity 10am – 11am
Stop Motion Animation 11:00 am – 11:45 am
Modeling Our Solar System 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Computer Simulations 1:45pm – 2:30 pm
3D Modeling Lesson Ideas 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

3. The NGSS 3 Dimensions Practices Crosscutting Concepts
Disciplinary Core Ideas (Content)
NGSS CSP Cheat Sheet Handout

4. NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
Asking questions (science) and defining problems (engineering)
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations (science) and designing solutions (engineering)
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

5. NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
Asking questions (science) and defining problems (engineering)
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations (science) and designing solutions (engineering)
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
SEP K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 progressions handout

6. Core/Component Ideas
Highlights to PS Component Idea (DCI) and the Engineering DCI that we will be exploring from NRC framework

7. Structure of the NGSS
Points out how to read the NGSS standards and points out the engineering applications suggested in the PEs

8. Structure of the NGSS- Engineering
ETS1 Standards at the end of 3-5 grade band

9. Models and Modeling Quickwrite:
Describe what you know about scientific models.
Why do we engage in the practice of modeling? What are some examples of each type?
Models and Modeling: An Introduction by Ambitious Science Teaching

10. What are Scientific Models?
Models are used to represent a system (or parts of a system), to aid in the development of questions and explanations, to generate data that can be used to make predictions, and to communicate ideas to others. –NRC Framework, page 58

11. Scientific Modeling
Bret
Tsunami Animation: Tohku, Japan 2011 (Mercator) by PTWC
Scientific modeling is the generation of a physical, conceptual or mathematical representation of a real phenomenon that is difficult to observe directly

12. Categories with Examples
Class of Models
Examples
Concrete Models
Scale models, Mockups, Figurines
Pictorial/graphic models
Blueprints, photographs, Diagrams
Mathematical models
Formulae and equations, Graphs, Topographic maps
Simulation models
Simulation games, Cockpit simulators, Crash test dummies
Verbal Models
Descriptions, Scripts, Directions
Symbolic models (semiotic models)
Words and numbers, Mathematical figures, Stoplights and signs
Models-Based Science Teaching, by Sean W. Gilbert

13. NGSS Emphasis
The word “modeling” is referenced 87 times in the 9-12 NGSS standards!
Practice 2 Developing and Using Models
Modeling can begin in the earliest grades, with students’ models progressing from concrete “pictures” and/or physical scale models (e.g., a toy car) to more abstract representations of relevant relationships in later grades, such as a diagram representing forces on a particular object in a system. (NRC Framework, 2012, p. 58)
Appendix F Handout
Models and Modeling: An Introduction by Ambitious Science Teaching

14. K-12 Modeling Progression Matrix
NGSS, Volume 2 Appendixes, pg. 53

15. PRETHINK
Using your Individual Whiteboard. Draw a picture of what you think red laser light will do as it strikes red Jell-O.
Write a brief caption that summarizes what your drawing illustrates about light striking Jell-O?
Share your model with your partner.

16. PRETHINK Come up with a shared model
Share your model with your nearest neighbor

17. Stop Motion Animation: Red into Green Jell-O Model

18. At Your Table Exploration
Red or Green Laser Pointer
Red, and Green Gelatin

19. Laser Jell-O Play with the lasers and the Jell-O.
Be careful not to look directly into the Lasers, be careful where the beam is pointed
Shine the light into the different Jell-O and observe the phenomena.
With your partner record your observations and your questions in your notebooks.

20. Laser Jell-O - EXPLORATION
What are the fates of the laser light in each of three colors of gelatin?
Revisit and Revise your Model of what happens to light as red light strikes red Jell-O
Explore other combinations or laser color and gelatin colors.

21. Laser Jell-O – CONTENT DEBRIEF
What is transmittance?
What is refraction?
What is reflection?
What is absorption?

22. Fates of Light

23. Total Internal Reflection

25. Debrief
How is this approach potentially different than previous lessons?
Have a elbow partner discussion.

26. Three Dimensional Lesson

27. Modeling Earth’s Seasons
Use the individual white boards to represent your mental model of the reason for the seasons
Pair up with a partner and come to a consensus model

29. Titled Earth Activity The Styrofoam ball represents the Earth
The light bulb represents the Sun
Different colored dots represent different latitudes: red=North Pole, blue=far north location, green=mid lat. Such as SF
Revise your model
Possible Stop Motion Animation
Adapted from Reasons for the Seasons GEMS kit

30. Lay out envelopes
SEP
DCI
CCC

31. 3D Lesson Activity
Think of a Lesson that would target the selected modeling practice tied to the specific content that uses the selected cross cutting concept.
Put the practice back into the envelope after selecting a new one. Replace it and discuss how that change would effect the lesson.

32. Modeling in Your Classroom
Identify an upcoming science lesson in which you can incorporate modeling.
How can you shift the lesson to include some of the principles that were used today?

33. Modeling Resources NetLogo: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
PhET Interactive Simulations:
Molecular Workbench Simulations:
Models and Modeling: An Introduction
Physics Central Laser Jell-O Lesson:

34. Questions and Evaluation
Bret States,
evaluation