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TESD 2019-2020 school year, K-3 & 5-7 will work in new standards. 4 and 8 will teach old for AIMs and supplement new standards.
A storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena. A student's goal should always be to explain a phenomenon or solve a problem. At each step, students make progress on the classroom's questions through science and engineering practices, to figure out a piece of a science idea. Each piece they figure out adds to the developing explanation, model, or designed solution. Each step may also generate questions that lead to the next step in the storyline. Together, what students figure out helps explain the unit's phenomena or solve the problems they have identified. A storyline provides a coherent path toward building disciplinary core idea and crosscutting concepts, piece by piece, anchored in students' own questions.
Storylines do not happen overnight. In fact, the stories on NGSS took over 5 years of teacher development and "trial and error". Give yourself grace and be brave with storylines. Review some examples here.
Check out NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) for great resources and to see what the rest of the country is doing in Science. Even if you are not a member, this site has great resources and blogs for Science teachers.