NEXT GENERATION

SCIENCE STANDARDS
WCPS

FRAMEWORK FOR K-12 SCIENCE

EDUCATION
Comes from the National Research Council and is
what the NGSS are built on.

Three Dimensions
1.) Science and Engineering Practices
2.) Crosscutting Concepts
3.) Disciplinary Core Ideas
Pg. 3

They believe that

intergrading these
dimensions will set
the stage for
learning and
teaching science.

So everyone teaches
1.) Science and Engineering Practices
2.) Crosscutting Concepts

New Skills
and
Processes

New
Content

3.) Disciplinary Core Ideas

Where we should be
different

VOLUME 2
S H O W S H O W T H E F RA M E W O R K L E A D T O T H E S TA N D A R D S

VOLUME 1
THE STANDARDS

LAYS OUT THE STANDARDS IN TWO

WAYS
Gold

Green

Fewer standard topics

More standard topics

More connections and

details of concepts taught
more performance
expectations per
standard topic

Brief connections and

details of concepts taught
less performance
expectations per
standard topic

Same Concepts are being addressed

NEW LINGO
Performance
Expectations

The interception of
practice, content and
connection.

Standard Topics

The concepts we are

trying to get across to
the child

Students who
demonstrate
understanding can:
new standards

new units

EXAMPLES
Gold

Green

PHYSICAL SCIENCE COMPARISON

Gold pgs. 54-55

Green- pgs. 208-210

1. Matter and
Interactions
2. Motion & Stability:
Forces & Interactions
3. Energy
4. Waves & Their
Applications in
Technologies for
Information Transfer

1. Structures &
Properties of Matter
2. Chemical Reactions
3. Forces & Interactions
4. Energy
5. Waves &
Electromagnetic
Radiation

LIFE SCIENCE COMPARISON

Gold- pgs. 65-66

Green- pgs. 221-222

1. From Molecules to
Organisms:
Structures& Processes
2. Ecosystems:
Interactions, Energy, &
Dynamics
3. Heredity: Inheritance
and Variation of Traits
4. Biological Evolution:
Unity& Diversity

1. Structure, Function, &

Information Processing
2. Growth, Development, &
Reproduction of Organisms
3. Matter & Energy in
Organisms and Ecosystems
4. Interdependent
Relationships in
Ecosystems
5. Natural Selection &
Adaptations

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

COMPARISON
Gold- pgs. 76-77

1. Earths Place in the

Universe
2. Earths Systems
3. Earth and Human
Activity

Green- pgs. 232-233

1. Space Systems
2. History of Earth
3. Earths Interior
Systems
4. Earths Surface
System
5. Weather & Climate
6. Human Impacts

WHAT WILL THE COUNTY DO?

GOLD PATHWAY FOR WCPS

LIFE SCIENCE

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
1.
2.
3.
4.

Matter and
Interactions
Motion &
Stability: Forces
& Interactions
Energy
Waves & Their
Applications in
Technologies for
Information
Transfer

1.

2.

3.
4.

From Molecules to
Organisms:
Structures&
Processes
Ecosystems:
Interactions,
Energy, &
Dynamics
Heredity:
Inheritance and
Variation of Traits
Biological
Evolution: Unity&
Diversity

Earth and Space Science

1.
2.
3.

Earths Place in the

Universe
Earths Systems
Earth and Human
Activity

FOR NOW . LETS LOOK AT THE NEW PORTAL