1. The Next Generation Science Standards: 1. Unpacking the Standards
Professor Michael Wysession
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis, MO

3. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.

4. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
1) Performance.
a) Prior standards documents listed what students should “know” --- the NGSS list what students should “do.”

5. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
1) Performance.
a) Prior standards documents listed what students should “know” --- the NGSS list what students should “do.”

6. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
1) Performance.
b) These are presented as “Performance Expectations”

7. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
1) Performance.
c) The performance expectations have a main statement, and can also have a Clarification Statement and/or an Assessment Boundary

9. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
2) Foundations. Each performance expectation incorporates three dimensions from the National Research Council Framework—a science or engineering practice, a core disciplinary idea, and a crosscutting concept.

10. MS-ESS2 Earth’s Systems

11. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways.
3) Coherence. Each set of performance expectations lists connections to other ideas within the disciplines of science and engineering, and with Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and English Language Arts.

12. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
3) Coherence. Each set of performance expectations lists connections to other ideas within the disciplines of science and engineering, and with Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and English Language Arts.

13. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards

14. How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
This is all for ONE PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION!

15. MS-ESS2 Earth’s Systems