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Conceptual Shifts in NGSS
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Science instruction is based on real world scenarios.
What is authentic science instruction?
100
The foundational report produced by the National Research Council (NRC) that forms the basis for the NGSS.
What is A Framework for K-12 Science Education (The Framework)
100
Common Core State Standards
What is CCSS?
100
Preparing students to be college ready and career ready with proper foundational understanding in science.
What is one outcome of NGSS?
100
At the nexus of: Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Disciplinary Core Ideas.
How should students be engaged in an NGSS classroom?
200
Assessment is by creating, doing and performing.
What is performance assessment?
200
These are concepts that hold true across the natural and engineered world. Students can use them to make connections across seemingly disparate disciplines or situations.
What are Crosscutting Concepts?
200
Crosscutting Concept
What is CCC?
200
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) will create K-12 science standards through a collaborative state-led process.
What is NGSS?
200
A performance expectation used: (1) to represent or describe (2)to collect data (3) to predict
What is modeling?
300
Science and engineering skills are integrated with math and English Language Arts.
What are the Three Dimensions of Science Teaching and Learning?
300
Statements that describe the context and rationale for the Performance Expectations in each grade band and section.
What is a storyline?
300
Disciplinary Core Idea
What is DCI?
300
A three pronged approach: content, scientific and engineering practices with cross-cutting concepts.
What does every NGSS standard have?
300
Sustained opportunities to work with and develop the underlying ideas and to appreciate those ideas' interconnections over a period of years rather than weeks or months.
What is coherent science education?
400
Central ideas linking to your science discipline.
What are Disciplinary Core Ideas?
400
Grouping elements or concepts from multiple Performance Expectations in lessons, units and/or assessments that students can develop and use together to build toward proficiency on a set of PE's in a coherent manner.
What are bundles and bundling?
400
Engineering Design
What is ED?
400
Framework for K-12 Science Education
What was the first step in the development toward NGSS?
400
A focus on the core ideas (both content and application) and not necessarily the facts that are associated with them.
What are the Disciplinary Core Ideas?
500
Conceptual building of knowledge and skills over the course of lessons, units, or years of instruction.
What is coherence?
500
Found as part of the architecture of a standards page, these highlight some of the links between the listed PE and other NGSS PEs in the same and other grade bands as well as with CCSS ELA/Math standards.
What are connection boxes?
500
Foundation Box
What is FB?
500
It has been 15 years since the science standards were last revised.
How long has it been since science standards were revised?
500
Teachers' roles become that of a facilitator, mentor and learning guide.
How does a traditional science educator's role shift?
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