Next Generation Science Standards
NGSS Resources
http://nextgenscience.org/
A Framework for K-12 Science Education
Developed by the National Research Council, the Framework lays out a compelling vision for the future of science education grounded in the most current research on science and science learning. It focuses on a limited number of core ideas in science and engineering all K–12 students to allow sufficient time for teachers and students to explore each idea in depth.
- Download the free pdf at National Academies Press
- The NSTA Reader’s Guide to A Framework for K–12 Science Education, EXPANDED EDITION: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Framework Webinars
- National Academies Webinars
- A Framework for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
- The NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education
- The NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education: Implications for Educating Teachers
- NSTA webinar presentation on the Frameworks
- NSTA webinar series on Practices within the Framework
NSTA presented a series of web seminars on the practices described in A Framework for K-12 Science Education. Each web seminar focused on a particular practice outlined in the Framework and provided information on:
- the key elements of the practice;
- how the practice is part of the broader set of practices that work together (and how no practice is taught in isolation);
- how the practice can be used in combination with disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts to form performance expectations; and
- what the use of the practice really looks like in the classroom.
- Asking Questions and Defining Problems
- Developing and Using Models
- Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
- Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
- Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
- Engaging in Argument from Evidence
- Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information
Classroom application of the practices described in A Framework for K-12 Science Education
- Engineering Practices in the Next Generation Science Standards
- Using the NGSS Practices in the Elementary Grades
- Next Generation Science Standards and ELLs
- Connections Between Practices in NGSS, Common Core Math, and Common Core ELA
BCSSE, a project of the Council of State Science Supervisors, has developed a variety of resources to support teams, buildings, or districts to provide professional learning connected to the Framework and NGSS.