Adapting FOSS kits to NGSS

Post date: Jul 11, 2016 2:21:34 PM

The Oakland Unified School District is a FOSS adopted district. They have put a huge amount of effort into adapting FOSS lessons to be more NGSS. They developed guides for the individual FOSS California kits that describe these adaptations:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6LT0a-LA0sZUmNVYl9XTnd3MUU&usp=sharing

Here is a quick snapshot of the Table of Contents that shows how they have designed new lessons and extended existing FOSS investigations. Their adaptation documents, called "SIRA" are extremely useful and detailed.