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This chapter will help state science supervisors, district science coordinators, and school science teachers with the process of adapting instructiona...
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Planning to ADAPT Materials for Classroom Instruction
For this chapter, the goals are to identify the degree to which current instructional materials accommodate performance expectations from Next Generat...
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NGSS Frequently Stated Concerns: The Yes, Buts
In this chapter, some of the Yes, but concerns are addressed. Some of the referents for the concerns lie beyond the Next Generation Science Standards ...
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) raise the academic bar for states and still leave them with the freedom to adopt or adapt materials and ...
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Appendix A: Grade 5 NGSS Unit, “Is It a New Substance?”
In this unit, students conduct an investigation to determine if two substances combine to form a new substance. The students mix Substance W with a so...
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Appendix B: Middle School NGSS Unit, “Water and Hydrogen Peroxide”
Water molecules and hydrogen peroxide molecules each consist of only hydrogen and oxygen atoms. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and on...
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Appendix C: High School NGSS Unit, “The Haber-Bosch Process”
A chemist named Fritz Haber developed a process to produce ammonia directly from hydrogen and nitrogen as shown in the equation. An engineer named Kar...
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From NGSS to Classroom Instruction
This chapter provides a context for translating standards into something understandable, manageable, and usable for those with the real task of teachi...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is desig...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about plants. The probe is designed to find out what characteri...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about needs of living things. The probe is designed to find out...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about sensory responses. The probe is designed to reveal whethe...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about seed germination. The probe is designed to find out if ch...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about floating and sinking. The probe is designed to find out if...
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The purpose of the assessment probe, in this chapter, is to elicit children’s ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to find out...