Advances in the Next Generation Science Standards
(NGSS)
Every NGSS standard has three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas (content), scientific and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts. The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NGSS
Middle School Standards (6-8th grade)
https://www.nextgenscience.org/overview-dci
Our 6th Grade Curriculum
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)
http://science.ousd.org/secondary.html
Scope
goo.gl/XmWV55
Unit 0 - Launch / Like an Engineer (2 weeks)
Unit 1: Energy (6 weeks)
Unit 2 - Weather & Climate (4 weeks)
Unit 3 - Climate Change (5 weeks)
Unit: Puberty Health Education (???)
Unit 4: Body Systems - Structures and Function at Scale (6 weeks)
Unit 5 - Reproduction & Genetics (7 weeks)
Other Resources
Digital ReadWorks
https://www.readworks.org/
NewsELA
https://newsela.com/signin
http://science.ousd.org/secondary.html
Scope
goo.gl/XmWV55
Unit 0 - Launch / Like an Engineer (2 weeks)
Unit 1: Energy (6 weeks)
Unit 2 - Weather & Climate (4 weeks)
Unit 3 - Climate Change (5 weeks)
Unit: Puberty Health Education (???)
Unit 4: Body Systems - Structures and Function at Scale (6 weeks)
Unit 5 - Reproduction & Genetics (7 weeks)
Other Resources
Digital ReadWorks
https://www.readworks.org/
NewsELA
https://newsela.com/signin