Check out the article written by Kings Canyon Unified School District, one of our awesome 2016-2017 Gizmos grantees!
The June 2017 NGSS NOW Newsletter also features this article
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Creating Performance Tasks (Using Gizmos to Implement NGSS)
Melanie Brown, Science Curriculum Specialist at Sweetwater Union High School District in California, explains in this webinar how she uses ExploreLearning Gizmos to create Performance Tasks to meet the new science standards.
Gizmos are Correlated to NGSS!
Here are step by step directions on how to access our NGSS recommended Gizmos correlation lists:
Advances in the Next Generation Science Standards
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- Every NGSS standard has three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas (content), scientific and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts. Currently, most state and district standards express these dimensions as separate entities, leading to their separation in both instruction and assessment. The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.
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- Scientific and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts are designed to be taught in context – not in a vacuum. The NGSS encourage integration with multiple core concepts throughout each year.
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- Science concepts build coherently across K-12. The emphasis of the NGSS is a focused and coherent progression of knowledge from grade band to grade band, allowing for a dynamic process of building knowledge throughout a student’s entire K-12 scientific education.
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- The NGSS focus on a smaller set of Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) that students should know by the time they graduate from high school, focusing on deeper understanding and application of content
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- Science and engineering are integrated into science education by raising engineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry in science classroom instruction at all levels, and by emphasizing the core ideas of engineering design and technology applications.
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Gizmos and the Next Generation Science Standards
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