Linking Next Generation Science Standards to Common

Core State Standards

Angela Goulart11th year Middle School Science in Central Falls

Member AFT review team for NGSS

Rhode Island Strategic Leadership Team

DANA Center Curriculum writing team

Session - Development of NGSS

- How to read NGSS

- Connections between NGSS and CCSS in Mathematics and ELA

- Starting with the Practices

Phase I

Phase II

1990’s

NGSS Development

How the Framework Connects to NGSS

Recommended Resourceswww.nextgenscience.org

www.nsta.org

www.rista.org

Framework for K-12 Science Education

Reading NGSS4 ways to access

Book available from www.nap.eduDownloadable in PDF form from NGSS websiteTablet app Interactive on NGSS website (

http://www.nextgenscience.org)

Alignment with CCSS ELACCSS increased focus on informational text

Use of science text for content aligns with standards for use text features and gathering information from diagrams and graphics.

Alignment with CCSS ELACCSS early focus on informative writing

Early writing in science can focus on topic specific details as well use of domain specific vocabulary.

Scaffold up as student begin writing arguments using evidence during middle school

Alignment to CCSS MathIn the early grades, science aligns as students

are learning to use measurements as well as representing and gathering data

As students progress into middle school, their use of variables and relationships between variables will be reinforced consistently in science class.

Venn Diagram Activity1. In a baggie on your table you have strips of

paper that list different practices for Math, English Language Arts, and Science

2. Place the strips into the appropriate locations in the Venn diagram to show the connections.

Practices in Mathematics, Science, and English Language Arts*

*The common Core English Language Arts uses the term “student capacities” rather than the term “practices” used in Common Core Mathematics and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Based on work by Tina Chuek

ell.stanford.edu

Math Science

ELA

M1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

M2: Reason abstractly & quantitatively

M6: Attend to precisionM7: Look for & make

use of structureM8: Look for &

make use of regularity in repeated reasoning

S1: Ask questions and define problemsS3: Plan & carry out

investigationsS4: Analyze & interpret data

S6: Construct explanations & design solutions

M4. Models with

mathematicsS2: Develop & use

modelsS5: Use mathematics

& computational thinking

E1: Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts, and writing and speaking about them

E7: Come to understand other perspectives and cultures through reading, listening,

and collaborations

E6: Use technology & digital media strategically & capably

M5: Use appropriate tools strategically

E2: Build a strong base of knowledge through content rich texts

E5: Read, write, and speak grounded in evidenceM3 & E4: Construct viable

arguments and critique reasoning of othersS7: Engage in

argument from evidence

S8: Obtain,

evaluate, &

communicate information

E3: Obtain, synthesize,

and report findings clearly and effectively in response to task and purpose

Commonalities Among the Practices in Science, Mathematics and English Language Arts