1. NGSS And Conceptual Shifts In Instruction
Give an overview of the Next Generation Science Standards and key areas of the new standards.
We will examine cross cutting concepts using examples which are one of the major conceptual shifts in the new NGSS standards.
Common core is included in NGSS standards.
By Michael Kunz

2. Comparing Terminology in Standards
Old: Students will know
New: Conduct an investigation
Develop and use a model
Use argument supported by evidence
Gather and synthesize information
Evaluate competing design solutions

3. Old vs New

4. Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) are the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines. These core ideas build on each other as students progress through grade leveled and are grouped into the following four domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science and Engineering.

5. Science and Engineering Practices describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by “inquiry’ in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.

6. Crosscutting Concepts help students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design
When these concept, such as “cause and effect” are made explicit for students, they can help students develop a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world around them

7. Crosscutting Concepts:
How would crosscutting concepts look in instructional practice?
Using Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity as an example.
Examine the standard
Look at crosscutting concepts, Science and Engineering Practices and Disciplinary Core Ideas for this standard

8. Students who demonstrate understanding can:
MS-LS4-1. Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on finding patterns of changes in the level of complexity of anatomical structures in organisms and the chronological order of fossil appearance in the rock layers.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the names of individual species or geological eras in the fossil record.]

9. Disciplinary Core Ideas
LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
The collection of fossils and their placement in chronological order (e.g., through the location of the sedimentary layers in which they are found or through radioactive dating) is known as the fossil record. It documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms throughout the history of life on Earth. (MS-LS4-1)
***Supplemental DCI ESS1.C, ESS2.B
Anatomical similarities and differences between various organisms living today and between them and organisms in the fossil record, enable the reconstruction

10. Science and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Analyzing data in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to extending quantitative analysis to investigations, distinguishing between correlation and causation, and basic statistical techniques of data and error analysis.
Analyze displays of data to identify linear and nonlinear relationships. (MS-LS4- 3)Analyze and interpret data to determine similarities and differences in findings. (MS-LS4-1)
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Mathematical and computational thinking in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and

11. Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Patterns can be used to identify cause and effect relationships. (MS-LS4-2)
Graphs, charts, and images can be used to identify patterns in data. (MS-LS4- 1),(MS-LS4-3)
Cause and Effect
Phenomena may have more than one cause, and some cause and effect relationships in systems can only be described using probability. (MS-LS4-4),(MS- LS4-5),(MS-LS4-6)

12. Investigating meteorites

13. Meteorite Activity

14. Investigating plate tectonics and volcanoes

15. Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption 2010 (VEI 4)

16. 10X increase in explosive index

17. Volcanic Eruptions in Earth’s History
How would eruptions of this magnitude impact living organisms?

18. Yellowstone caldara Eruptions in the past
What impact would a major eruption like this have on us today?

19. On April 10, 1815, Tambora Volcano Erupted
“Enough ash was put into the atmosphere from the April 10 eruption to reduce incident sunlight on the Earth’s surface, causing global cooling, which resulted in the 1816 “year without a summer.”
Mount Tombora --- VEI-7

20. Boston Independent Chronicle on June 17, 1816:
On the night of 6th instant, after a cold day, Jack Frost paid another visit to this region of the country, and nipped the beans, cucumbers, and other tender plants. This surely is cold weather for summer.
On the 5th we had quite warm weather, and in the afternoon copious showers attended with lightning and thunder -- then followed high cold winds from the northwest, and back back again the above mentioned unwelcome visitor. On the 6th, 7th, and 8th June, fires were quite agreeable company in our habitations.

21. A group of writers, including Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his future wife Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, challenged each other to write dark tales inspired by the gloomy and chilly weather.
Mary Shelley wrote her classic novel Frankenstein.

22. Internet Resources: NGSS: http://ngss.nesta.org

23. Internet Resources Cont.
Science Instruction:
Earth Viewer