Curriculum is what translates the Next Generation Science Standards into a classroom experience where students can be scientists and engineers. It is what helps students gain experience performing the expectations and making connections on an everyday basis in order to reach mastery, so that over time they can generalize those skills to a variety of situations.
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There are 5 steps educators can adopt in their own classrooms to use phenomena most effectively in the classroom.
Step 1: Find a real-world anchor phenomenon.
If you're a KnowAtom user, you don't need to find anything because phenomena are the basis for all of our lessons. If you don't use KnowAtom, that's fine. These are all things you can do in your class.
Continue readingTopics: NGSS-Designed Curriculum, Next Generation Science Classroom Instruction, Phenomena-Based Learning
Those educators responsible for choosing a curriculum will need to be critical consumers to avoid investing in resources that are superficially “aligned” to NGSS but don’t fully articulate the vision of the NGSS so students can achieve the levels of mastery that will be expected of them.
Continue readingTopics: 3-dimensions, Implementing New Science Standards, NGSS-Designed Curriculum
