Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Wendy Whitmer, Regional Science Coordinator
Introduction
 Who are we?
 Logistics
 Clock hours and evaluations
Objectives
 Learn about the Next Generation Science Standards
implementation plan and architecture.
 Identify the Science and Engineering Practices as
outlined in the K-12 Framework for Science Education.
 Learn how the Science and Engineering Practices play
a role in the NGSS through model lessons.
 Identify Science and Engineering Practices in your
own curriculum.
Agenda
 Asking Questions and Defining Problems
 Jigsaw the practices (Obtaining and Communicating
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Information)
Gears (Planning and Carrying out Investigations)
A look at examples from the world of science
(Analyzing and Interpreting Data)
What’s in it for me? (Constructing Explanations and
Designing Solutions)
Energy (Arguing from Evidence and Modeling)
Science Probe
 Please fill out the probe individually
 Discuss your reasoning
 Add to or change your answer if you would like.
Anatomy of a Next
Generation Science Standard
Building an Understanding of the Architecture of the
NGSS: Foundation Boxes
Building an Understanding of the Architecture of
the NGSS: Performance Expectations
Building an Understanding of the Architecture of
the NGSS: Performance Expectations
Architecture of the System
Code for
Topic Name
Connections
Foundatio
n Boxes
Assessable
Compone
nt
Grade Level
Coded
Performance
Expectations
Code in
parentheses
designate which
of the
performance
expectations use
this Practice
Code in
parentheses
designate which of
the performance
expectations
incorporate this
Disciplinary Core
Idea
Code in parentheses
designate which of the
performance
expectations
incorporate this
Crosscutting Concept
Asking Questions and Defining
Problems
 Check out www.rightquestion.org!!
 On sticky notes, write down any question about the
Next Generation Science Standards.
Sorting
Sort your questions into:
1. Open versus Closed Questions
2. Policy (big picture) vs. Architecture
3. Classroom Implications
4. Other
Ask Away!!
Closed questions
2. Policy questions
3. Architecture of the standards
4. Other
1.
Finding the NGSS
 www.nextgenscience.org
 Mastery Connects App
 NGSS.nsta.org
Jigsaw Appendix F (Dimension 1)
 ALL: Read the intro, rational, and guiding principles.
 Read about your practice.
 Key details to share about that practice with the group
 How that practice is developed K-12
 Use a Frayer model.
Gears (Planning and Carrying Out
Investigations)
 4-PS3-4
 MS-PS3-5
 HS-PS3-3
 Complete the tasks on
the sheet
Venn Diagram
 Highlight the practices you used throughout the gears
activity
Card Sort…
 On your own…think about how you
might sort the cards
 In a group…can you come to consensus
about how the cards might be sorted?
 Can you sort them into just 2 groups?
 What if the titles of the groups were:
Science & Engineering
Thinking about Engineering as an
iterative process with science…
Models
 5-PS1-1 Develop a model to describe that matter is
made of particles too small to be seen.
 Probe- Is it a Model?
 Work with a partner
 Which ones were challenging and why?
Watch Video
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
 Learning Target: I can develop a model that predicts
and describes changes in particle motion,
temperature, and state of a pure substance when
thermal energy is added or removed. (MS-PS1-4)
Tanker Car
 What do you need to know?
 Develop first conceptual model
Develop a model
 Draw the system before the implosion, and after the
implosion.
 Craft an explanation for the event.
Water bottle
 Follow the instructions given…
 Add to conceptual model
 Gallery Walk
 Making your thinking public
What-ifs?
 What if the valves were not shut and sealed?
 What if you could investigate with a smaller model?
 Another example:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsoE4F2Pb20
 Refine your explanation?
 What questions do you have for further investigation?
 How could we get the “answer”?
Design Challenge?
 What design considerations
need to be made when
engineering something like a
hot water heater?
Science and Engineering Practices
 Highlight the practices you
used throughout the tanker
car activity.
 What about cross-cutting
concepts?
Where do we start?
 Choose two Practices that you can do REALLY well this
year.
 Maybe they align well to the MSP/EOC?
 Pick two practices that you will work on for next year.
Let’s Practice
Practice
Example from
My Classroom
Evidence
(Student Product)
 Find a page in the NGSS
that matches your
curriculum.
 What are the practices on
that page?
 Where can you find these in
your curriculum?
 What is your evidence that
students are using this
practice?
Science Probe
 Consider our practices of investigation today…
 Return to your probe
 How has your thinking changed or developed?
Exit Ticket
 Evaluation: www.tinyurl.com/esdevaluation
 Thank you!!!
 Resources:
 www.nextgenscience.org
 www.esd101.net/science
 www.washingtonesds.org
 www.rightquestion.org
 Ngss.nsta.org
 App: Mastery Connects
 For Common Core and Next Generation