Science Standards

College and Career Ready Standards for Science (CCRSS)

"The goals for science education in DoDEA are that all students will become critical consumers of scientific information related to their everyday lives and they will be prepared to pursue careers in science and engineering. Students’ science education experience will be the foundation for continuing to learn about science throughout their lives as science helps to advance our understanding of the world."

Do FOSS resources align to DoDEA's CCRSS?

Answer: The FOSS program was designed for the Next Generation Science Standards, which are DoDEA’s College and Career Ready Standards for Science (CCRSS). The three dimensions of the standards are highlighted throughout the Teacher Investigation Guide. Science and Engineering Practices are always blue, Crosscutting Concepts are always green, and Disciplinary Core Ideas are always orange. Each part of each investigation builds upon the previous one and the grade levels build upon one another. It is important to proceed through the investigation as designed to build student conceptual understanding and knowledge. Any similarities in investigations in different grade levels in an intentional part of the program to allow students to utilize prior knowledge as they explore the concepts with greater rigor and depth.

CCRSS -Three Dimensional Learning Drives Instruction

Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science: Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. The first dimension, Science and Engineering Practices, describes what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The second dimension, Crosscutting Concepts, helps students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design. The third dimension, Disciplinary Core Ideas, includes the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines. These dimensions are combined to form each standard—or performance expectation—and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time. The Science Standards are not a set of daily standards, but a set of expectations for what students should be able to do by the end of instruction.

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https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13165/a-framework-for-k-12-science-education-practices-crosscutting-concepts