Science and Children—March/April 2023

Volume 60, Number 4

Ten Years of NGSS: Lessons Learned

In the 10 years since the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were released, 44 states have implemented standards influenced by A Framework for K–12 Science Education and/or the NGSS. In this issue of Science and Children, we examine how these adopted standards have changed or supported science learning in preschool through elementary classrooms.

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Ten Years of NGSS: Where Are We Now?

By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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NGSS for Our Youngest Learners: Explorations in Coding

By Alissa A. Lange

Early Childhood Computer Science Engineering NGSS Pedagogy

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Finding Outstanding Science Trade Books

By William Straits

Early Childhood Elementary Literacy

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Lessons Learned

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Literacy

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Animal Survival

By Christine Anne Royce

Elementary Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Life Science Literacy

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What Can You Do with 77 Formative Assessment Probes Columns?

By Page Keeley

Elementary Assessment Instructional Materials Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Integrating Critical Pedagogy of Place

By Alayla Ende, Alexandra Schindel, Jennifer Tripp, Christine Wang, and Tanya Christ

Elementary NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Toward Equity for Multilingual Learners

By Emily Reigh, Emily Adah Miller, Maria Chiara Simani, and Alice Severson

Elementary Equity Multicultural Multilingual Learners NGSS Pedagogy

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Promoting Sensemaking

By Patrick Brown and Rodger Bybee

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts NGSS Performance Expectations Physical Science Sensemaking Three-Dimensional Learning

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Rightfully Present

By Bailey Nafziger

Elementary Earth & Space Science Multicultural Pedagogy

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Garden Variety

By Sky Feller, Stacey Halpern, and Nora Underwood

Elementary Biology Life Science NGSS

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Farmers vs. Rabbits

By Heidi Masters, Jacob Brehmer, Doug Feyen, and David McKittrick

Elementary Earth & Space Science Engineering Interdisciplinary Life Science Teaching Strategies

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Fostering Cultural Community Wealth

By Kelley Woolford Buchheister, Christa Jackson, and Cynthia E. Taylor

NGSS Phenomena Three-Dimensional Learning

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What Science Should Look and Sound Like

By Kathy Renfrew

Leadership

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Making Stone Soup

By Laura Robertson, Alissa Lange, Jamie Price, Andrea Lowery, Holly McAvoy Scott, Qiuju Tian, and Ryan Nivens

Elementary Pedagogy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Q: How Can My Students Demonstrate Information Transfer Using Waves?

By Matt Bobrowsky

Elementary Phenomena Physical Science

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Reassessing Recess

By Alison Riley Miller and Martha Eshoo

Elementary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies