NEXT GEN SCIENCE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY(NGSS)

3 Components to the Academy

•The standards•Science notebooks•Science “talk”

NGSS Shifts

1. Inquiry-based instruction

2. No more right/wrong answers=SENSE-MAKING

3. Using evidence to justify reasoning

4. Embrace flexbility with instruction, and stickiness in the process of sense-making

5. Provide opportunities for failure so students get comfortable with it

6. Let them struggle!

7. Let them talk it out.

3 dimensions to the NGSS standards

•Disciplinary Core Ideas

•Science/Engineering Practices

•Crosscutting concepts

The 3 dimensions are like a fine recipe…

Tools= Science and Engineering

Practices

Ingredients=Disciplinary Core Ideas

HerbsSpices=Crosscutting

concepts

Grade level essential

questions and big ideas

- NEXTGENSCIENCE.ORG

- VIEW IN DCI ARRANGEMENTS

- STORYLINES

- GRADE BAND

Other resources…• Edmodo: ESA group (when I get the code I will forward it to you)• Inquiryproject.terc.edu ( awesome videos)• http://moodle.tbaisd.org/course/view.php?id=1021 (units already done for Physical Science!)• NGSS website-Framework• Sciencenotebooks.org