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Steps to Develop NGSS Lessons and UnitsIntegrating the three dimensions
Agenda
Updates to NGSS Review January 2014 training Unpacking Performance Expectations Unpacking vs. Deconstructing Lesson development Next Steps / reflection
NGSS UpdatesMay 20, 2014
NGSS Updates
Draft implementation plan Framework development (by January 2016) Implementation of NGSS (2016-2017) Assessment recommendation (2016-2017) Curriculum Materials adoption (2017-2018)
Middle School disciplinary model – April 2014 July 21: Day-Long Face-to-Face Institute (NSTA / CSTA) NGSS Rollout Symposium #1 (Oakland – TBD) CSTA / NSTA (Long Beach, December 4-6)
States That Have Officially Adopted NGSS•Rhode Island•Kentucky•Kansas•Maryland•Vermont•California•Delaware•Washington•District of Columbia•Nevada•Oregon•Illinois(last updated April 9, 2014)
Review of NGSS presentationJanuary, 2014
Three Dimensions
8 Science and Engineering Practices
44 Disciplinary Core Ideas and
Component Ideas• Physical Sciences• Life Sciences• Earth and Space Sciences• Engineering, Technology,
and Applications of Science
7 Crosscutting Concepts
Performance Expectations
Foundation Boxes
Connection Boxes
Architecture of NGSS
Performance Expectation
What students should know and be able to do after instruction Communicates a “big idea” Assessments for and of learning Includes
clarification statements (more detail and examples of topics)
assessment boundaries (what is not expected)
Deconstructing Performance Expectations
Unpacking Performance ExpectationsUnpacking vs. Deconstructing
Unpacking Standards
Standards do not describe all that can / should be taught Reveals smaller learning targets Aids the design of instruction and assessment
Achieves “collective clarity” regarding learning targets Steps of knowledge or concepts & skills that build toward the
standard Identify strategies for all students to achieve standard Determine rigor of learning targets
Collaborating for Success with the Common CoreBailey, Jakicic, Spiller
Determining What Is Essential1. Endurance—Will this standard
provide students with knowledge and skills that will be of value beyond a single test date?
2. Leverage—Will this provide knowledge and skills that will be of value in multiple disciplines?
3. Readiness—Will this provide students with the essential knowledge and skills necessary for success in the next unit, level of instruction, course, grade or level of instruction?
DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many Learning by Doing 2nd Ed, 2010, Page 65Ainsworth , Rigorous Curriculum Design, 2010 Page 40Reeves, The Leader’s Guide to Standards 2002, pp. 49–52
Deconstructing vs. Unpacking
Deconstructing:•Break down 3-dimensions•Understand clarification statement / assessment boundary•Examine vertical alignment•Connect to CCSS
Unpacking:•Identify Essential Skills / Concepts•Determine teaching strategies•Examine resources for instruction and assessment
Steps to Develop NGSS Lessons and UnitsIntegrating the three dimensions
Appendix E: Learning Progressions
Coherent instruction in K-12 science Focus on core ideas Integration of content and practices
Turn to page 3, follow the ESS3.A progression
ESS3.A: Natural Resources
Energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural sources an their uses affects the environment. Some resources are renewable over time, others are not.
Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.
Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.
Humans depend on Earth’s land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes
From NGSS to Classroom Instruction
Read Chapter 4 from Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction by Rodger Bybee
Read the following section – what are the implications for your science programs?How does this differ from your current science program?
Identify a Coherent Set of Performance Expectations…(page 55-58)
From Standards to Instruction
Performance Expectations (PE’s) are not Learning Targets; and they overlap with each other.
If you try to teach the PE’s as a list of skills, you will never finish them.
PE’s that aren’t taught in an integrated manner are like Lemony Snicket science: a series of unfortunate events.
Stephen L. Pruitt, Ph.D.Senior Vice President for Content, Research and DevelopmentAchieve
Why Bundle? Teaching, or attempting to teach, individual
performance expectations led to a disjointed and stunted view of science.
Developing instructional materials and instruction should be viewed as leading to understanding the larger core idea.
Coherent instructional materials and instruction should focus on a Disciplinary Core Idea (or set of them) rather than discrete pieces that are never tied together.
How Does One Bundle?
Disciplinary Core Idea
Crosscutting Concepts
Science & Engineering Practices
Bundling Determine a theme
Build around a coherent set of PEs Identify instructional strategies &
learning outcomes Determine science investigations /
engineering problems that integrate PEs
Design a sequence of learning activities
Determine the theme / topicEx: Energy•What do you teach in this unit?•What PEs focus on this unit?
– 4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents
– 4-PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.*
– 4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
What are the essential questions?
From the Framework•What is energy?•What is meant by conservation of energy?•How is energy transferred between objects?•How do Earth’s surface processes and human activities affect each other?•How do humans depend on Earth’s resources?
What do students need to know / do?
Framework –find the Grade band Endpoints for the following DCI:•PS3.A•PS3.B•PS3.D•ESS3.A
Energy Explore the Energy site –What resources would you need?–How could you use 5E’s (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate) –How would you assess your students?
https://sites.google.com/site/cccoeenergy/welcome
Additional considerations:
• How will you assess your students?• What misconceptions need to be
addressed?• What are key lessons / activities for
this topic?• What instructional strategies address
the Three Dimensions in this unit?• What time frame is needed?
Take a unit you are planning• What are the PEs that support this
topic?• What CCSS support this topic?• What do you want students to do / know
(Backwards planning)?• How will you assess student learning
– Formative– Summative
• How will you engage all students– Inquiry– Big idea
Next steps Explore NGSS and unpack PEs Choose a topic / theme and develop
NGSS unit Teach, modify, re-teach, reflect
Integrate science with CCSS ELA and Math
Resources Contra Costa County Office of Education
www.cocoschools.org/steam Presentation Resources
http://tinyurl.com/cccoe-pusd-elementary Next Generation Science Standards
www.nextgenscience.org/ CDE updates to the NGSS
www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintrod.asphttp://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssstandards.asp
NSTA Common Core Resourceswww.nsta.org/about/standardsupdate