Science is about making sense of the natural world! NGSS is shifting instruction away from simply knowing science to emphasizing using science and engineering practices to make sense of the world or solve problems.
The goal for the NGSS teacher is to design opportunities for students to make sense of the world around them. The process boils down to these four questions:
What are we trying to figure out?
How will we figure it out?
How do we keep track of what we are figuring out?
How does it all fit together? What does it mean?
Rialto Unified School District’s science curriculum maps are standards-based maps driven by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and implemented using Discovery Education, Mystery Science, and teacher created resources. Student achievement is increased when both teachers and students know where they are going (their standards), why they are going there, and what is required of them to get there. CLICK HERE to Access the Quicklinks for your grade level.
Rialto USD Science Department believes:
Science is what you DO
All Rialto USD students can excel in science/ STEM. Access to science/STEM is a social justice issue.
We (teachers) are the change we want to see.
Open-and-Go lessons that inspire kids to love science!
Click the title to redirect to the Discovery Education + STEM Connect login page and mysteryscience.com. Refer to your grade level chapter in the Next Generation Science Standards Framework to learn more about instructional expectations.
PBL deepens learning bringing science to life!
Click the title to redirect to PBLworks.org. Get inspired by project ideas! Refer to your grade level curriculum map for additional guidance.
Commit to be a Green Team Ally . We're all in this together!
Click the title to redirect to A Teacher's Call to Action. Click the link to find additional Environment Resources for Teachers. Rialto USD science is committed to NGSS and the Ca. Environmental Principles and Concepts. Refer to your grade level curriculum map for guidance.
"The classroom culture of discourse must be developed and supported...For all students the emphasis should be on making meaning, on hearing and understanding he contributions of others, and on communicated their own ideas in a common effort to build understanding of the phenomenon or to design solutions of the system being investigated and discussed... for this behavior are to a great extent common across all the science disciplines, and indeed across all the subject areas."
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