Next Generations Science Standards
Learning the Ways of the JEDI: Justice in Action
A group of students huddles over a map of their city. They are not just locating temperature variations—they are layering tree canopy data, income levels, and historic redlining maps that contributed to segregation in the first half of the 20th…
Science Performance Tasks Embedded in Learning (PTELs)
When I ask teachers what emotions come to mind when they hear the word assessments, many immediately say “anxiety” or “stress.” I’m not surprised—I feel similarly when I think back on my own experiences in school. I mostly remember summative,…
CASE Needs Your Thought on NGSS Professional Learning
At the beginning of July, CASE launched a survey as a component of a major data collection and learning effort to gauge the status of NGSS Professional Learning throughout the state. As an organization that prides itself on being an advocate for…
Making Choices and Making Messes: What student agency looks like in science classrooms
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) encourage students to not just “know about science,” but to actively engage in “doing science.” Rather than carrying out pre-designed investigations, students should have “epistemic agency,” or ownership…
Environmental Education and NGSS in an Era of Uncertainty
Environmental issues lend themselves to cross-disciplinary integrative learning and science teachers are central to the effort to bring environmental literacy to every California child...At the heart of this broader integrative effort is…
