March 18 Inservice Resources: NGSS & Literacy Integration

Please bring your computers and NGSS binder. 

Below is an agenda for our work on Friday, March 18.

8:00-8:15/30 Quick review - any questions

• Performance expectations links ...
• Practices
• Crosscutting concepts
• DCIs
• CCSS connections
• Appendices (E&F) that show development of Concepts across grades
• Continuum of topics

8:15-9:00 Introduction to Science Units Document

• WNESU Science Curriculum Folder
• Sample unit (4th grade)
• What information was put into the planning document? What was taken out? Where did this information come from?

9:00-11:00 Unit Development in library

• Maria: TUS NGSS collections & library resources ***ScienceFlix, TrueFlix, Pebble (Capstone Resources)***
• TUS Leveled book room list
• Guided Reading Nonfiction book list
• Scholastic Short Reads
• Pebble Science Books
• TUS NGSS Library Resources 
• Parking lot for resources to share

11:00 -2:30 Lunch, wellness, team time

2:30 Share Out Unit Work

• What went well?

• What do you need?

Short Science Videos

NGSS Resources

Check out these resources around the NGSS

* NextGenScience.org *

Grade level standards can be viewed here by topic

* Teaching Channel Video: NGSS A Vision for K-12 Science Education *

This video breaks apart the NGSS into the three dimensions of science education

* Inside the NGSS Box * 
This infographic explains all of the different components of the NGSS standards pages

* NGSS @ NSTA *
NGSS resources from the National Science Teachers Association


* NGSS Classroom Posters *

Post these in your classroom for students -and teachers- to use to focus their science learning

Resources for Guided Reading

Click the images below to access tools to help guide reading instruction of leveled texts A-Z.