Category: NGSS Foundations
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NGSS Assessment (and unit) development: Uncoupling DCI concepts is an essential first step in planning for assessment
The content (DCIs) in our science standards is dense. There are very often multiple ideas packed into a single sentence in a DCI – even in kindergarten. When working on assessment development with educators, the first thing we do is to make sense of the many discrete ideas packed into the DCIs in our performance
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NGSS Foundations: How to engage with the Performance Expectations: This may just change the way you understand, plan for and implement the NGSS
So many aspects of the three dimensional standards and how the authors intended educators to engage with them fell into place for me when I read this article many years ago – and it has informed my work ever since. The article, “Q and A on Unpacking Three-Dimensional Standards” written by Jeremy Peacock and Ted
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NGSS Foundations: Quick guide for finding and downloading your standards pages
I created this Quick Guide for those of you new to the Next Generation Science Standards. The document walks you through the process of finding your standards pages and downloading them so that you might download as a PDF then print them out or save them somewhere on your drive.
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