Next Generation Science Standards

Chemical Reactions Lesson Plan — This site provides a lesson plan with a rubric and assessment to explain chemical reactions.

Chemistry Activities — This site has many chemistry topics including matter, atoms, periodic table, elements, reactions, and biochemistry. The simple explanations and interactive activities are user friendly.

How stuff works — HowStuffWorks provides explanations for thousands of topics, allowing you to explore how the natural world works, as well as topics in engineering, space, military technology, and physics, among many others. You can get daily notifications about the newest articles through their RSS feed, as well as finding out about articles on specific topics.

Links to chemistry activities — This site is a Chemistry teacher’s website with links to many activities and labs. It provides many useful ideas.

Next Generation Science Standards — Click here to view the next generation science standards.

NGSS articulated to chemistry standards — This site combines existing standards for Chemistry and the new NGSS standards.

NGSS by grade level — This pdf articulate the NGSS by grade level.

NGSS Lesson Plans — This site provides detailed lesson plans articulated to NGSS HS-PS1-2

NGSS lesson plans and activities — This site contains a curated list of NGSS articulated lesson plans and activities provided by the California academy of sciences.

Nova — NOVA is the most watched documentary series on public television and the highest rated science series on television and has won many major television awards, some multiple times. It’s a science show for “curious people exploring interesting questions.” Each show covers a single topic shown to be of great interest to viewers in an uninterrupted, hour-long program. If you’re still hungry for more information about the topic, each show has a website to accompany it that offers articles, interviews, personal essays, slide shows, 360° panoramas and interactive features.

Science News — Science News is an award-winning, news magazine that publishes concise, accurate, timely articles about all areas of science and covers important and emerging scientific research.It is a great resource for current events in science.