Integration Of Next Generation Science 5/5/2023

Standards Across Science Curriculum

Presentation Objectives and Standards

Integration Of Next Generation Science Introduce Next Generation • NGSS Standards

Standards Across Science Curriculum Science Standards (NGSS)

Brainstorm areas where the
Nick Espalin NGSS and CCSS are linked
California Chemistry Department Discuss ideas to incorporate
Training: 3/23/23
NGSS across the content
Review best practices of
NGSS
• CA NGSS Website:
www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintro
d.asp
• NBPTS: Propositions 2 & 5
• TLS: Domain III, Domain I
• ISTE Standards: Educator as
Collaborator Standard 4.a

The Risk To Science Education? Connecting NGSS and Common Core

CTA Educator Magazine Article Collection of evidence

September 2011
Argumentation and analysis
“Focus on mandated tests is pushing science to the back Modeling
burner.”
Writing skills
“Because of the lack of science instruction, we are seeing
students who are unable to show curiosity.” Vocabulary development in
“Without a new generation of scientists, America loses it’s the content areas
edge in creating new technologies…” Math modeling from concrete
to abstract
4 Domains

Knowing your students and attending to all Now you try!

Students strengths and needs Breakout Rooms:
Reflecting On Your Current Practices
Please discuss the following in your break out groups
Content Strong content knowledge
What does chemistry instruction look like in your
class right now?
Instruction
Use of effective instructional strategies and
&
Depths of Knowledge (DOKs) What are some of the issues that help/hinder
Pedagogy
chemistry instruction at our school?
Claims &
Incorporating the 4 SBAC Claims and multiple
What are your needs to improve instruction and
Assessment
types of formative and summative assessments student learning?

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Standards Across Science Curriculum

Next Generation Science Standards

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(NGSS) Conceptual Shifts
Science education should reflect the interconnected nature of
science as it is practiced and experienced in the real world
NGSS are student performance expectations—not curriculum How Teachers All that Can Advanced Support for Everything
Teach or Should be work beyond English needed to be
Science standards build coherently from K-12 Taught the Core Language College and
Focus is on deeper understanding of content as well as Subjects Learners & Career Ready
Students with
application of content Special Needs
Science and engineering are integrated from K-12
Designed to prepare students for college, career, and What the Standards DO NOT define
citizenship
NGSS and CCSS are aligned

Dimensions of the NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

Disciplinary core ideas-power to focus curriculum,
instruction, and assessments on the most important aspects
of science – What students need to know!
Crosscutting concepts-ways of linking all the domains of
science – How students think!
Science and Engineering Practices-behaviors that scientists
engage in, skills and knowledge that is specific to science
and engineering, expanding on the definition of inquiry –
What students need to do!
What students need to know!
Have broad importance across multiple science or
engineering disciplines or be a key organizing concept
in one discipline
Provide a key tool for understanding or investigating
more complex ideas or solving problems
Relate to the interests and life experiences of students
Be teachable and learnable

Crosscutting Concepts
Science and Engineering Practices
How students think!
What students need to do!
1. Patterns
Amazing OL Scientific behaviors
2. Cause and effect
Resource Key engineering practices
3. Scale, proportion, and quantity
Explain and extend what is meant by “inquiry” in
4. Systems and system models
science and the range of cognitive, social, and
5. Energy and matter: flows, cycles, and
physical practices it requires
conservation
6. Structure and function Can make STEM= STREAM . . . Research and Art!
7. Stability and change

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Standards Across Science Curriculum

Now you try!

Breakout Rooms:
Please discuss the following in your group:

In what ways can we incorporate cross cutting

concepts in chemistry?

COMMON CORE NGSS

Sciences in schools Sciences in schools
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Literate Reading Intertwining three crucial aspects Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
of material about, and for, science issues • Disciplinary Core Ideas
• Cross-Cutting Concepts  Provides guide to increase/decrease rigor of instruction to meet the
• Science and Engineering Practices learning needs of the diverse students in your classroom.
Literate Writing Working towards specified Performance
to build and present knowledge as claims Expectations
backed up by arguments from readings, or consistent with that vision, for all grade bands,
personal experience and all sciences.
Lots of Reading Lots of Exploring of, and with, materials
in many genres, to fully comprehend what others as the source of making reasoned empirical
said. arguments.

Writing routinely Constructing deep, discipline-specific

for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes
and audiences.
Students become literate, adept at making
meaning from, and with, discipline specific
texts (all types)
understandings
from empirical arguments, neither cluttered nor
front-loaded with highly specific vocabulary bits.
Students know science as something they,
and scientists do, in order to come to know
something new, to know how they know it,
and why they trust it.

Engaging Students With NGSS NGSS In The Classroom

Projects based on collecting
information
Real world data collection
Inquiry based scientific investigations
Use of real time, or near real time,
data
Working through the inquiry cycle
Collaborative groupings
Questioning strategies

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Standards Across Science Curriculum

Inquiry Based Science Four Traits of Inquiry Teaching

The inquiry cycle Connecting

Developing experiments Designing
Making science fun
Investigating
Student centered
Constructing meaning
investigations

NGSS In The Secondary Classroom Transforming Science Instruction:

Student-Led Inquiry
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas:
 Earth Science Student inquiry labs have taken the
 Biology place of teacher prescribed labs
 Chemistry
Integrate technology to provide
 Physics
computer simulations of macro-
More rigorous Cross-Cutting Concepts, but concepts for students to experience
the same basic principles Hands-on laboratory activities make
SAME Science and Engineering Practices!!! the curriculum come to life

Blending Science Instruction NGSS-based Lessons: Better Lesson

Students are active participants in
every lesson, not passive observers
NEA has partnered with Better Lesson to create
Students have access to course thousands of NGSS-based lessons for teachers k-12.
curriculum via online class website
These lessons are FREE and downloadable to use in your
Incorporating Google Drive so all classroom!
students can communicate in group
Search by grade level, NGSS standard, or key word.
projects, access lab data, and
provide feedback for peers Don’t reinvent the wheel . . .

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Standards Across Science Curriculum

Bringing NGSS To Life With Technology:

SAMR In Your Classroom
SAMR Model

Now you try! In breakout rooms lets look Sample NGSS Lesson Reflection
at a Sample NGSS Lesson:

What were some ways in which the lesson

Student Inquiry Labs Alkali Metals Student Inquiry Lab Incorporated student inquiry?

Please take the time to complete the survey on the

presentation today: SURVEY LINK

Thank you!!

NGSS Resources
NGSS official website: www.nextgenscience.org
CA NGSS Website: www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintrod.asp
CSTA NGSS Website: www.cascience.org/csta/ngss.asp
NTSA NGSS Website: www.nsta.org/ngss
Better Lesson: www.betterlesson.com
NEA Greater Public School Network: www.gpsnetwork.org/
Cross-Cutting Concepts - http://crosscutsymbols.weebly.com

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