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Continue reading →: NGSS on CORElaborate Site
Puget Sound Educational Service District here in Washington State hosts a site called CORElaborate that features tools, resources, and blog posts about teaching the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. This projects supports a group of teacher leaders who are charged with blogging and tweeting about…
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Continue reading →: NGSS Videos on Teaching Channel
The Teaching Channel has just published a series of 4 videos to support our understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards. The videos center on teacher professional development and provide an overview of NGSS and the 3 dimensions as seen below: NGSS: A Vision for K-12 Science Education NGSS: Crosscutting…
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Continue reading →: How Will Science Education Change with NGSS?
Here is a one-pager that describes 8 ways that science education might change with the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards. This page might be useful during professional development workshops or for collaborative groups of teachers to consider as they learn about NGSS. Click HERE to access the sheet.
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Continue reading →: WA State: LASER STEM Education Leadership Institute
Washington State LASER is offering a week-long STEM Education Leadership Institute to be held June 22-26, 2015 in Lynnwood, WA. For registration information and more details about the institute click HERE. Applications for teams are due April 3, 2015.
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Continue reading →: Guide to Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards now available
The National Academies Press has just released the prepublication copy of Guide to Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards. You can download a FREE pdf, read it FREE online in your browser or preorder a hardcopy. I haven’t even given this a skim yet, but am interested to hear from…
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Continue reading →: NGSS High School Evidence Statements Released
The High School evidence statements for the performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards have just been released. These evidence statements provide more clarity about what students should know and be able to do in order to clearly meet the 3 dimensional expectations of the NGSS. I’ve only given…
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Continue reading →: Washington State to Collaborate on NGSS Assessment Development
I’ve been waiting anxiously to hear whether Washington State would be developing our own NGSS state-wide assessments or if we would partner with others states. Today the word came out that Washington will in fact be working as part of a collaborative group. Below is text from the official announcement from…
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Continue reading →: Veritasium: This Will Revolutionize Education
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Veritasium video so when I saw the new video titled This Will Revolutionize Education– I felt like I needed to share. Lots of good stuff for us to think about in education reform and educational technology. Also some very wise words about…
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Continue reading →: NGSS Classroom Sample Assessment Tasks grades 6-12
Achieve has been promising a set of NGSS/CCSS Classroom Assessment Tasks for quite some time… and the first batch has finally arrived! There are currently middle school and high school assessment tasks with elementary on the way. Click HERE to access the Front Matter for the assessment tasks. Click HERE…
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Continue reading →: Engineering Design Talk Moves
There are lots of great resources for supporting productive classroom talk during science instruction… Talk Science Primer Discourse Primer 9 Science Talk Moves Accountable Talk Sourcebook But when it comes to engineering design I think we need some different questions and talk moves to guide students as they are collaborating to…
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