Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Subject Area: Science

Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media

This resource houses a collection of activities and professional development resources drawn from programs such as WGBH’s Design Squad Nation and the Engineering is Elementary® project at the Museum of Science, Boston. These media-based resources illustrate and deepen teachers’ understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards and help teachers bring engineering alive for students at […]

Lesson Planning Materials

This website includes a variety of tools for teachers to create lessons, classroom assessments, and presentations. It also provides tools for students. Its lesson creation tool enables teachers to build lessons around any of the PBS videos on the website. For each video there are also tools such as teaching tips and discussion questions. The […]

NGSS Evidence Statements for Elementary

The NGSS evidence statements for elementary school (grades K-5) provide additional details about what students should know and be able to do at the end of instruction to demonstrate proficiency for each elementary performance expectation in the NGSS. Further, the evidence statements describe how students can use the practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas (three dimensions) to demonstrate […]

NGSS Evidence Statements for Middle School

The NGSS evidence statements for middle school (grades 6-8) provide additional details about what students should know and be able to do at the end of instruction to demonstrate proficiency for each middle school performance expectation in the NGSS. Further, the evidence statements describe how students can use the practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas (three […]

NGSS Evidence Statements for High School

The NGSS evidence statements for high school provide additional details about what students should know and be able to do at the end of instruction to demonstrate proficiency for each high school performance expectation in the NGSS. Further, the evidence statements describe how students can use the practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas (three […]

Appendix A – Conceptual Shifts in the Next Generation Science Standards

Appendix A of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) explains how the NGSS are different from previous science education standards and how they are relfective of the conceptual shifts in science education in the United States. The appendix includes explanations of how (1) K-12 science education should reflect real-world science as practiced by actual scientists; (2) the three dimensions in the Framework for K-12 […]