The School District of the Chathams Essential Intent of the Science - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Kristen Crawford K-12 Science Supervisor The School District of the Chathams

Essential Intent of the Science Department The essential intent of the science department is to turn students' wonderings into exploration and experimentation to understand natural phenomena.

What’s new in Science? Next Generation Science Standards are coming Fall of 2017 New Science resources that blend literacy, hands-on exploration and have students “think” like a scientist. Modeling in the elementary classrooms Continued Professional development for teachers

The Next Generation Science Standards A group of 26 lead states participated in the development Representatives from elementary, secondary and high education. Many colleges and universities participated. Based on the National Research Council’s A Framework for K-12 Science Education Partners include, National Research Council's, National Science Teachers Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Achieve. Written for States by States

What is Three-Dimensional Learning? Crosscutting Concepts

What Are Science and Engineering Practices? What Scientists Do Practices are the behaviors that scientists engage in as they investigate and build models and theories about the natural world and the key set of engineering practices that engineers use as they design and build models and systems.

Scientific & Engineering Practices 1. Asking Questions (for science) and Defining Problems (for engineering) 2. Developing and Using Models 3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 4. Analyzing and Interpreting Data 5. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking 6. Constructing Explanations (for science) and Designing Solutions (for engineering) 7. Engaging in Argument from Evidence 8. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

What does that look like in the classroom?

What Are Crosscutting Concepts? How Scientists Think Crosscutting concepts are concepts that have application across all disciplines of science. As such, they provide a way of linking the different disciplines of science.

Crosscutting Concepts Cause and Effect Systems Structure and Function Patterns Energy and Matter Scale Stability and Change

What Are Disciplinary Core Ideas? What Scientists Know Disciplinary core ideas are the big ideas of science that provide scientists and engineers with the concepts and foundations to make sense of phenomena and/or design solutions to problems.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS and Common Core Standards

New Jersey’s Implementation Plan Spring 2017 New Jersey September 2016 July 2014 Biology Implementation of New Jersey Competency adopts NGSS NGSS for 6-12 Test updated September 2017 Spring 2017 Implementation of NJ ASK 4 & 8 NGSS for K-5 test updated

Instructional Shifts

School District of the Chathams’ Implementation Plan Kindergarten through Grade 5 Plan October 2015 October & September 2015 Spring 2015 November 2015 Staff members are Staff members are given scope and 1 Unit in each introduced to Science sequence to focus on NGSS aligned grade level written and Engineering specific topics and activities and for NGSS practices and integrate new units resources are Standards Crosscutting Concepts obtained Winter/Spring Spring 2106 Ongoing Fall 2016 2016 One more unit aligned Teachers implement new Professional Teachers attend to NGSS will be NGSS aligned unit development NGSS workshops written for each grade classroom strategies level K-6

Questions? Thank you!

Denis Sheeran, K-12 Mathematics Supervisor The essential intent of the mathematics department is to develop students who can think critically and collaborate to solve problems creatively in preparation for an unexpected and ever changing world.

Washington Elementary School K-3 Current Changes/Updates EnVisionMATH still being implemented Pacing Guides were reviewed and updated this past summer Exemplars Differentiated Problem Solving tasks with rubrics, aligned to CCSS, Holistically scored as Novice, Apprentice, Practitioner, Expert.

2015-16 Goals Compilation and organization of shared problem solving resources. Professional Development on the use of Centers for math instruction, grades K-3 Professional Development on Number Talks and Open Middle Problems

Open Middle Problems Multiplying a Two-Digit Number by a Single-Digit Number Directions: Using the numbers 1 – 4, no more than one time each, make the largest possible product.

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