1. CSTA slides for K-5 teachers to explain to NGSS to parents
This is a deck of slides that teachers can pick and choose from and modify to fit their needs.
Feel free to rearrange and change the text fit your needs.
The first slides are an introduction for the beginning of the year and the second set following the blank slide are for the end of the year.
It has been set up for 3rd grade to give you a model that you can edit and adapt to your grade
As this is a template, you may need to fill in information appropriate to your school & grade.
Also, add your name, logo and website.
You may want to post your version of this on your website, share during Back to School Night and Open House, have playing at a science event or use in anyway that serves your needs.
There are blank slides at the end to make your own slides.

2. School logo Teacher Name 3rd Grade
Our School’s Plan for California’s Next Generation Science Standards
Actively Involve Students in Science
Prepare Children for College & Careers
School logo
Teacher Name
3rd Grade
This PowerPoint presentation was made possible (in part) by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author.

3. Science Education Increases Success
Science prepares students for college
Employers seek employees who
Think critically
Analyze information
Solve complex problems
25% of new jobs involve Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

4. What is different about NGSS? Less of this: More of this:
Following step-by-step instructions
Teachers presenting models explaining what happens in the natural world
Discussions seeking one right answer
Learning facts not connected to real science and engineering work
Unrelated learning from Year to year
Creating their own investigations
Developing models to explain phenomena and solve problems
Reasoning and supporting their conclusions with evidence
Using science to solve real problems
Learning connected engineering and science practices and concepts

5. Preparing Students for the Future
Think – Do – Know
Ask your own questions like a scientist
Do activities like a scientist might do
Make your own discoveries
Learn more though memorable experiences

6. What might students investigate? 3rd grade
Does the shell shape help it survive?
What are the advantages of living in groups?
Can patterns predict the future weather?
How high will the ball bounce?

7. Nurture Your Scientist at Home
Encourage your child’s natural curiosity
Let your child ask the questions
Enable your child to guide the investigation
Seek creative solutions while gardening, cooking and other activities at home
Get involved in community activities, like water clean-ups or visit science centers

8. Learn More about California's New Science Standards
Teacher Website: _____________

10. School logo Teacher Name 3rd Grade
By working like a scientist this year,
your child is better prepared
for next year as well as
college & careers
School logo
Teacher Name
3rd Grade
This PowerPoint presentation was made possible (in part) by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author.

11. California’s Next Generation Science Standards
Students are actively involved in the science
Children remember experiences
They learn from their own discoveries
They develop life, college and career skills
Thinking on their own
Problem solving
Communication
Collaboration

12. Prepared for the Future
Science education increases success at college and in careers
25% of new jobs involve Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)
Most careers expect employees to
Think critically
Analyze information
Solve complex problems

13. Next year in science, students will:
Find out more about plants and animals
Learn about Earth and the Solar System
Explore how energy is made and used
Discover how water, sound and light waves move
Understand ways to solve problems
In each grade, California Science Standards build on what students have been taught previously

14. Summer Science Ideas Positively reinforce curiosity
Get your child to guide the exploration of things that interests him or her
Ask, what might happen if …
Participate in community water clean-ups
Visit zoos, science centers, planetariums, library science events & maker fairs
Explore nature in your yard or at a park

15. Learn More about California's New Science Standards
Teacher Website: _____________