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A lot of research has happened in science education. Much of it has been synthesized in National Research Council (NRC) reports such as Taking Science to School, America's Lab Report, and Learning Science in Informal Environments. In addition to these works, the Framework builds on other standards work, including the Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the NRC's National Science Education Standards. The development of the Framework for K-12 Science Education was the first step in the standards process.
Step two of the process was the invitation to all states to come together to create a set of standards based on the vision and guidelines of the Framework. Twenty six states participated in the NGSS development process. In April, 2013, after months of work which included several public feedback phases, the final version of the Next Generation Science Standards were released. This version of the standards, as well as more information on the development process, can be found at www.nextgenscience.org.
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This link includes K-5 DCI and topic arrangments of the standards, various arrangements of the middle school standards for the adopted preferred model as well as the alternative discipline specific model, and high school DCI and topic arrangements of the standards.
California adopted the NGSS standards in September 2013. More information can be found at the link on the right. It should be noted that this was the first step in a long process of implementation, which is not discussed in this professional learning module.
With this foundation, we are ready to dive deeper into the introduction of the Next Generation Science Standards. I am sure you have many questions. I invite you to write them down at this time. You will have an opportunity to ask those questions as part of the survey at the end of this module.
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