Planning 3D Science Instruction
An NGSS classroom needs to effectively engage students in the three dimensions of NGSS – practices, crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas – by creating a next generation inquiry environment, where the role of the teacher is not sage on the stage, as it is in the traditional model of instruction, but instead to tune the inquiry environment so that students develop science and engineering practice skills and take intellectual risks.
- Introduce an Anchor Phenomena
- Build and engage background knowledge through nonfiction reading and viewing informational media
- Teacher asks higher order questions to engage students and promote student inquiry and questions
- Students use higher order thinking skills, questioning, and investigations to make connections with creative, evaluative, and analytical responses
3D Science Instructional Planning Presentations
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Standards Resources
Next Generation Science Standards Matrix of Crosscutting Concepts- Link Matrix of Science and Engineering Practices- Link Matrix of Disciplinary Core Ideas- Link NGSS Course Bundles Vertical Divider
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Instructional Planning
Instructional Unit Planning Story-line Tool- Anchoring phenomenon pdf / google doc Story-line Tool- Connected investigations pdf / google doc Story-line Tool- Putting Pieces Together pdf / google doc Lesson Planning Template- Multiple Lessons Lesson Planning Template- Single Lesson Student Science Performance |
Instructional Planning Resources
- Designing Classroom Units and Lessons https://ngss.nsta.org/designing-units-and-lessons.aspx
- BSCS 5E Instructional Model https://bscs.org/bscs-5e-instructional-model
- Planning for 3D Learning http://www.negaresa.org/science/?p=340
- Next Generation Storylines http://www.nextgenstorylines.org/tools/
- STEM Teaching Tools http://stemteachingtools.org
- NGSS Instruction and Assessment http://nextgenscience.org/instruction-and-assessment/instruction-and-assessment
- Study.Com https://study.com/
Finding Phenomena
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Sample 3D Lessons
Next Generation Story-lines http://www.nextgenstorylines.org/what-are-storylines American Museum of natural History https://www.amnh.org/explore/curriculum-collections NSTA https://ngss.nsta.org/Classroom-Resources.aspx Going3D https://sites.google.com/3d-grcscience.org/going3d/ms-lessons?authuser=0 |
Simulations
EXAMPLE: http://has.concord.org/air-pollution.html
EXAMPLE: http://has.concord.org/air-pollution.html
- NetLogo-multi-agent programable modeling environment http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml
- PhET Interactive Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/
- The Concord Consortium https://learn.concord.org/
- Next Generation Molecular Workbench http://mw.concord.org/nextgen/
- Learner.org Interactives https://www.learner.org/interactives/?d%5b%5d=SCI
- PBS Nova Labs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/
- PBS Learning Media Interactives https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/
- Google Earth Engine Timelapse
- EarthScope Voyager, Jr.
- Google Sky
- NASA Climate Interactives
- UCAR Interactives & Simulations: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
- University of Nebraska Seasons Simulator
- SEPUP Seasons Interactive
- McGraw-Hill Eclipse Interactive
- The Very, Very SImple Climate Model
- Smithsonian Weather Lab
- Smithsonian Disaster Detector