Category: NGSS Foundations
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NGSS Resources: NGSS NOW – 5 things to know about quality K-12 science education this month
Of all of the science education resources that automatically show up in my inbox on a regular basis ( and there are a lot ), NGSS NOW is one I make sure to check out no matter how busy I am. It’s a very digestible and quick look at five science education resources / happenings,…
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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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