Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Evaluating Instructional Materials
for teachers or beginners - NGSS Lesson Screener
for serious teachers or instructional leaders - EQuIP Rubric
looking for examples of quality instructional materials - Science Peer Review Panel
to evaluate an entire year-long science curriculum use the Quality Instructional Materials Rubric for 6-8
My favorite teacher resources for developing lessons, unit plans, targets, and assessments
Appendix F - Science and Engineering Practices (SEP)
Go to the matrix on p. 17 - find your grade band - use language from an element (the bulleted statements) to
write your lesson targets or objectives, develop performance tasks, or to write questions.
Appendix G - Cross Cutting Concepts (CCC)
Go to the matrix on p. 15 - find your grade band - use language from an element (the bulleted statements) to
write your lesson targets or objectives, develop performance tasks, or to write questions.
This appendix provides samples of how to organize the Performance Expectations in 6-8 or 9-12 grade bands.
Use the evidence statements as a guideline for writing your assessments and rubrics (these were written around 2014 and were meant to get us started on NGSS assessment and are NOT meant to serve as the required success criteria)
Try bundling the performance expectations when developing new lessons or units. Check out this link for some examples of how to organize the PEs in different ways. Try bundling PEs from different science domains.