This is a running list of all the recommended and vetted (not a waste of your time or money) resources for NGSS/Framework implementation.
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An Educator's Guide to NGSS provides an open-source platform of resources for science educators in their quest to implement Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Framework for K-12 Science Education. Start by reading resources, practicing implementing NGSS little by little, and reflecting on classroom application, while earning points toward the four Educator's Guide badges. Earn all four badges and you'll become a Science Sage, ready to tackle NGSS in your classroom.
NGSS 5 Innovations The NGSS Innovations are the five most significant ways the NGSS advance science teaching and learning, when compared to previous standards and typical instructional and curricular practice in American schools. They build on the conceptual shifts described in Appendix A of the NGSS using lessons learned by educators and researchers since implementation efforts began to bring clarity and focus to what is truly innovative in the NGSS. As the key ways that the NGSS are new and different, these innovations also provide the intellectual framework PEEC uses to evaluate science instructional materials. This section describes each of the five NGSS Innovations and provides insight on how these innovations should be expected to appear in instructional materials.
Understand more about using phenomena in your NGSS classroom:
How to design a performance task: Follow a sequence of steps to develop an authentic performance task.
SCALE Science curriculum focuses on developing curriculum that supports student sense-making through project-based learning. Our resources aid teachers in their efforts to effectively respond to student needs, as well as shifts in instructional demands.
Examples of tasks from Kentucky Department of Ed: this database is populated with tasks available across grade levels and addressing the science and engineering processes as well as the crosscutting concepts
Examples of performance tasks developed by Central Michigan Science Mathematics Technology Center
These resources utilize phenomena to facilitate 3D learning, instruction, and formative assessment. Each set contains three documents:
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