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Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), you need a resource to help you answer pressing questions about how the standards fit with your curriculum, instruction, and assessments. Rodger W. Bybee has written Translating the NG...
By Rodger Bybee
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In this chapter, the authors look at three basic statistical tests. The first is the t-test, which is used when you have nominal or ordinal data and only two test variables you are comparing (e.g., the speed of cats and dogs). The second is the analy...
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From the Framework to the NGSS
This chapter first reviews essential features of A Framework for K–12 Science Education which provides a foundation for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Second, the chapter describes the important features of NGSS and introduces the N...
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NGSS: 10 Frequently Answered Questions
This chapter provides answers to frequently asked and answered questions. It comes as no surprise that the questions science teachers ask have to do with the changes implied by NGSS and the changes required in classroom practices. The ultimate benef...
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From NGSS to Instruction in an Elementary Classroom
Implementing the standards does present significant challenges—the obvious and immediate challenge of classroom instruction. There also is the long-term challenge of contributing to students’ progressive understanding across the K–12 curriculum...
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From NGSS to Instruction in a Middle School Classroom
For middle school science teachers, one of the most fundamental changes involves curriculum, instruction, and assessments. This chapter uses performance expectations from the life sciences as the basis for a description of how Next Generation Science...
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From NGSS to Instruction in a High School Classroom
This chapter first presents performance expectations that describe the competencies and content for instruction and assessment in a high school biology class. This is followed by a description of a teaching sequence that integrates the practices, cor...
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The general purpose of education standards is to reset the goals for education, then make curriculum programs, classroom instruction, and education assessments more coherent through processes of reform. So, we have to begin as soon as possible (ASAP)...
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This chapter will help state science supervisors, district science coordinators, and school science teachers with the process of adapting instructional materials to accommodate the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The science education comm...
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Planning to ADAPT Materials for Classroom Instruction
For this chapter, the goals are to identify the degree to which current instructional materials accommodate performance expectations from Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and to adapt these materials into a unit of instruction that is usable...
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NGSS Frequently Stated Concerns: The Yes, Buts
In this chapter, some of the Yes, but concerns are addressed. Some of the referents for the concerns lie beyond the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and are the result of other variables, such as national politics, state budgets, or local pr...
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) raise the academic bar for states and still leave them with the freedom to adopt or adapt materials and provide professional development to attain higher levels of achievement—for all students. The NGSS...
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Appendix A: Grade 5 NGSS Unit, “Is It a New Substance?”
In this unit, students conduct an investigation to determine if two substances combine to form a new substance. The students mix Substance W with a solution of Substance X dissolved in water. They need to complete the investigation to gather evidence...
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Appendix B: Middle School NGSS Unit, “Water and Hydrogen Peroxide”
Water molecules and hydrogen peroxide molecules each consist of only hydrogen and oxygen atoms. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. A hydrogen peroxide molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms. In ...
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Appendix C: High School NGSS Unit, “The Haber-Bosch Process”
A chemist named Fritz Haber developed a process to produce ammonia directly from hydrogen and nitrogen as shown in the equation. An engineer named Karl Bosch designed the equipment needed for the process, and today the Haber-Bosch process is the prim...
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From NGSS to Classroom Instruction
This chapter provides a context for translating standards into something understandable, manageable, and usable for those with the real task of teaching science. In the first sections, the chapter progresses from a brief discussion of the disciplinar...
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An integrative science unit combines science content on severe weather with the engineering design process....
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Straw Rockets Are Out of This World
STEM activities for upper elementary students....
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Creative, inquiry-based lessons with buoys addressed STEM and science standards while promoting teamwork....
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Developing project-based learning experiences helps students direct their learning....