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Dimensons of NGSS

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This one-page resource outlines eight dimensions of science education that promote equitable engagement of all learners.

Tips & Tricks for Interactive Video Sessions

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

With at-home learning, students are no longer captive audiences in a place that is highly focused on learning.

Distance Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

Explore five principles for educators to consider as they make the shift to digital classrooms in response to COVID related school closures.

Dimensions of Science Education

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

By engaging in learning this way, students develop skills in the practices of science and engineering, adopt the habits of thinking of scientists and engineers, and gain science and engineering knowledge.

Electric Circuits Visual Vocabulary Deck

For teachers and coaches

These printable cards can be used to support students’ understanding of electric circuits.

Supporting Children During Covid-19

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This tipsheet highlights simple things caregivers can do to ensure children come through this experience happy, healthy, and fully enriched.

Converting In-Person Activities to Distance Learning Activities

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This tip sheet highlights a few key ways to transition common in-person activities to a digital setting.

Properties of Next Generation Science Education

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This resource highlights just three properties of Next Generation Science Education — multidimensional, phenomenon-based, and equitable.

One Difference! Game

For teachers and coaches

This game is a fun introduction to one of the key qualities of good experiments.

Earth’s Orbit

For teachers and coaches

This diagram provides a birds-eye view of Earth’s orbit and shows the effect of the planet’s tilt at different times of the year.

Environmental Diagrams

For teachers and coaches

This set of three environment diagrams can be used to help situate science learning for a wide range of concepts — from studying organisms across environments to exploring the interactions between Earth’s systems.

Blood Cell Lineage and Differentiation Diagrams

For teachers and coaches

This set of handouts provides an overview of the Human Blood Cell lineage and also includes a supporting handout that shows how differentiation occurs in blood cells.

Periodic Tables

For teachers and coaches

This set of three Periodic Tables

Types of Models

For teachers and coaches

The practice of modeling is critical to the work of scientists, but all models have benefits and limitations.

Science Quotes

For teachers and coaches

This PDF contains 2 color posters with quotes from Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.

Habits of Systems Thinking

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This reference provides 5 helpful things to keep in mind when investigating a system.

MSS Facilitation Principles

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This PDF contains one blackline master of the MSS Facilitation Principles chart that can be enlarged to poster size.

Circuitry Inside a Bulb

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This handy diagram labels the parts of a bulb and shows the internal circuitry.

Phenomena-Based Learning

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This document describes the purpose of using phenomena as a tool for engaging students, and outlines four simple steps to help you incorporate more phenomena into your instruction.

Turtle’s Journey Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8

For teachers and coaches

The “Turtle’s Journey” task allows students to grapple with making sense of distance-time graphs.

Massive Air Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8

For teachers and coaches

The “Massive Air” task promotes student thinking around the concept of gases having mass.

Energy for Hawks Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8

For teachers and coaches

The “Energy for Hawks” task connects the concepts of energy and ecosystems, and requires students to think about how organisms get the energy they need to survive.

Food Mind Map Task Blank for grades 5–8

For teachers and coaches

The “Food Mind Map” task requires students to puzzle through their understanding of what food is by creating a mind map of linking terms.

Placing Hydrogen Task Blank for grades 9–12

For teachers & coaches

The “Placing Hydrogen” task requires students to consider what they know about atomic structure and the organization of the periodic table of elements.

Genetically Speaking Task Blank for grades 5–8

For teachers & coaches

The “Genetically Speaking” task requires students to read and respond to other students’ ideas about the relationship between genes, chromosomes, and traits.

Talking to the Text Bookmark

For teachers

Developed by the Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) at WestEd, these bookmarks are a great tool for students of grades K–12 to use in any subject.

Productive Science Talk Handout

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This handout helps situate the roles of speakers and listeners when engaged in this type of discourse.

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) handout

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This handout supports the CER format by providing clear definitions of each term.

Genes & Traits Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our 5-day Genes & Traits course.

Matter Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our 5-day Matter course.

Force & Motion Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our 5-day Force & Motion course.

Energy Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our 5-day Energy course.

Making Sense of Student Work PLC Protocol

For teachers, coaches, & leaders

This protocol supports professional learning communities in collaboratively analyzing student work and uncovering the value in high-quality formative assessment.

NGSI: Supporting Science Instruction Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Supporting Science Instruction course.

NGSI: Multidimensional Science Education book

NGSI: Multidimensional Science Education Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Multidimensional Science Education course.

NGSI: Science and Engineering Practices Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Science and Engineering Practices course.

NGSI: Crosscutting Concepts Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Crosscutting Concepts course.

NGSI: Classroom Innovations PLC Protocol

For teachers, coaches, & leaders

This protocol supports professional learning communities in deepening their understandings of next generation science teaching and learning.

Genes & Traits Formative Assessment Task Bank

For teachers & coaches

These formative assessments involve gathering and analyzing evidence of students’ thinking, then using what is learned to inform instruction.

Force & Motion Formative Assessment Task Bank

For teachers & coaches

These formative assessments involve gathering and analyzing evidence of students’ thinking, then using what is learned to inform instruction.

Energy Formative Assessment Task Bank

For teachers & coaches

These formative assessments involve gathering and analyzing evidence of students’ thinking, then using what is learned to inform instruction.

Matter Formative Assessment Task Bank for Grades 9–12

For teacher & coaches

These formative assessments involve gathering and analyzing evidence of students’ thinking, then using what is learned to inform instruction.

Matter Formative Assessment Task Bank for Grades 5–8

For teachers & coaches

The formative assessments involve gathering and analyzing evidence of students’ thinking, then using what is learned to inform instruction.

Making Sense of Physical Science Course Materials

For professors of undergraduate preservice teachers

These materials are designed to support the work of undergraduate students in understanding physical science concepts.

Supplemental Student Units

For teachers and coaches

For teachers who want to bring a more complete MSS learning experience to their classrooms, our supplemental student units are designed from the ground up for next generation science classrooms.

Next Generation Science Toolkit

For teachers & coaches

For teachers who want to bring a more complete MSS learning experience to their classrooms, our supplemental student units are designed from the ground up for next generation science classrooms.

NGSI: Waves Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Waves course.

NGSI: Systems Course Materials

For PL providers

This comprehensive set of materials supports the professional learning in our NGSI: Systems course.

Social Emotional Learning within Science Education

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This one-page resource highlights how social emotional learning — an essential part of growing up and schooling — can be a key component to science education.

Entryways to Data

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This one-page resource highlights a data investigation process that includes multiple entryways for engaging learners in data-rich instruction.

Principles of Data-Rich Instruction

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

This resource highlights key principles for supporting data-rich learning for middle and high school students and provides examples of how they may be incorporated in classrooms.

Data Sentence Starter Classroom Posters

For teachers, coaches, and leaders

These classroom posters provide a collection of sentence starters to help guide student discussions about data.

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