1. Next Generation Science Standards March 14, 2013
Preparing for the
Next Generation Science Standards
March 14, 2013
Brian Womack, Consultant GRREC
Rico Tyler, Master Teacher SKy Teach WKU

2. MS-PS-c:
Design, Construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer by conduction, convection, and/or radiation.

3. Your team’s task: Use the provided materials to make a container that will retain the four chips of ice frozen for the longest possible time. NO other ICE or WATER can be used with container.

4. Learning Objectives
Understand the student-centered vision of the NGSS.
Focus on the three dimensions that are foundational to each standard including disciplinary core ideas, cross-cutting concepts, and with special emphasis, the science/engineering practices.
Identify free online resources to help better prepare for new standards.
Determine the steps for implementing the NGSS.
Review each goal, stress the emphasis for today is on the first goal – others won’t matter if don’t get the 1st one
Rename – Meeting Goals

5. What’s in the Folder Agenda NGSS Example A New Conceptual Framework
Exploring the New Standards – Science Teacher (NSTA)
Science Standards Require a Teacher-Learning Rethink – Education Week (Nov 2012)
Holding Heat/Monet Hall Problem – 5E Model
Example of how “Practices” are used to develop standards
Evaluation/EILA
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Rename – Meeting Goals

6. Collaborative Effort
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7. Tablecloth Activity
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8. Vision of the Framework
Number off 1 – 9, form groups with like number
Read assigned section
Create a tablecloth
Rotate around the tablecloth
Prepare to share whole group
Provide explanation and main ideas from your assigned section
30 seconds/group!
As an aside, discuss how the movie strategy can be used with kids – like we did to provide introductory overview, as a review, etc.

9. “Engaging in the practices of science helps students understand how scientific knowledge develops (Framework, pg. 42)…developing evidence-based models, arguments, and explanations is key to both developing and demonstrating understanding of an accepted scientific viewpoint (Framework, pg. 48).”
Quote to reinforce key ideas in Ch. 1 and 2

10. What does Achieve say about the Vision of the NGSS?
Stephen Pruitt Video
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Rename – Meeting Goals

11. What Resources are Out There?
– free webinars
– Bozeman Science
- interactive simulations w/Texas Instruments

12. Quickly review the organization of the standards pages, participants can refer to their handout. To really understand the standards and expectations, I think it’s important to understand the format.

13. Structure of the Framework: Three Dimensions
Scientific and Engineering Practices (Blue)
Disciplinary Core Ideas (Orange)
Crosscutting Concepts (Green)
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Rename – Meeting Goals

14. 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, information and computer technology, and computational thinking
Constructing explanations (science) and designing solutions (engineering)
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Review each goal, stress the emphasis for today is on the first goal – others won’t matter if don’t get the 1st one
Rename – Meeting Goals

15. Disciplinary Core Ideas
Physical Sciences
Matter and its interactions
Motion and stability: Forces and interactions
Energy
Waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer
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Rename – Meeting Goals

16. Disciplinary Core Ideas
Life Sciences
From molecules to organisms: Structures and processes
Ecosystems: Interactions, energy, and dynamics
Heredity: Inheritance and variation of traits
Biological Evolution: Unity and diversity
Review each goal, stress the emphasis for today is on the first goal – others won’t matter if don’t get the 1st one
Rename – Meeting Goals

17. Disciplinary Core Ideas
Earth and Space Sciences
Earth’s place in the universe
Earth’s systems
Earth and human activity
Review each goal, stress the emphasis for today is on the first goal – others won’t matter if don’t get the 1st one
Rename – Meeting Goals

18. Disciplinary Core Ideas
Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of Science
Engineering design
Links among engineering, technology, science, and society
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Rename – Meeting Goals

19. Seven Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Cause and effect
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Systems and system models
Energy and matter
Structure and function
Stability and change
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Rename – Meeting Goals

20. Standards: “Nexus” of 3 Dimensions
Not separate treatment of “content” and “inquiry” (No “Chapter 1”)
Curriculum and instruction needs to do more than present and assess scientific ideas – they need to involve learners in using scientific practices to develop and apply the scientific ideas.
Crosscutting Concepts
Core
Ideas
Practices

21. Analysis of Draft for Energy
Analyze sample page for MS-PS3 Energy
How to read the NGSS
Vision of experiences needed to meet performance expectations (standards)
Connections
To math?
To ELA?
Handout sample of draft standards pages for SPM for K, 2, 5, MS, and HS. Copy front only so participants can lay out side-by-side to analyze. Use the bullets to guide the analysis – again looking across grades.

29. From AAAS as quoted in the Framework, pg. 83
“Some important themes pervade science, mathematics, and technology and appear over and over again, whether we are looking at an ancient civilization, the human body, or a comet. They are ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries and prove fruitful in explanation, in theory, in observation, and in design.”
From AAAS as quoted in the Framework, pg. 83