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What Is the Role of Lecture in NGSS?

Is there a role for lecture in NGSS classrooms?
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Engaging Your Students with the NGSS This Summer

Many of us will use this summer to engage with the NGSS so we can bring new experiences and examples into our classrooms in the fall.
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State Superintendent Torlakson Visits CSTA President Elect Lisa Hegdahl's Classroom to Shine a Spotlight on NGSS

On April 21, 2015 State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson visited McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, CA.
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NGSS - Next Generation Science Students

For the past 10 years, students have entered my 5th and 6th grade classrooms with little science experience.
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A Teacher’s Journey: NGSS Is NOT an Add On

My students were looking at a mole of iron (602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms more or less) and concluding that they were probably looking at one atom of iron.
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NGSS March Madness Edition – a Sports Analogy

You sign your daughter up to be on an elementary age basketball team. After several weeks, you ask your kid how they like playing basketball.
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California’s NGSS Early Implementers Meet for Mid-Year Training

The last time we were all together was August of 2014. Since then, we have ‘experimented’ with implementing the Next Generation of Science Standards with varying degrees of success.
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Engineering Brings It All Together!

I am really enjoying the creativity that NGSS is awakening in teachers.
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Showing the Ability to Take Risks

I just finished my first attempt at planning and implementing a Next Generation of Science Standards Lesson Series.
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NGSS@NSTA Now Offers More Resources Than Ever - with More Soon to Come

Along with CSTA, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is helping science educators implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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