NGSS and Common Core State Standards

Mathematical Practices• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them• Reason abstractly and quantitatively• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of

others• Model with mathematics• Use appropriate tools strategically• Attend to precision• Look and make use of structure• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Commonalities among Science, ELA and Math

• Reasoning with evidence• Building arguments and critiquing the

arguments of others• Participating in reasoning-oriented practices

with others

Teachers will have to help students

• Externalize/express their thinking• Listen carefully to each other• Pay attention to data and argue for their

positions with evidence• Understand the reasoning of others

Conceptual Shifts in the NGSS• K-12 Science education should reflect Nature of Science as it is

practiced and experienced in the real world• The NGSS are student performance expectations-not curriculum• The science concepts build coherently from K-12• The NGSS focus on deeper understanding of content as well as

application of content• Science and Engineering are integrated in the NGSS from K-12• The NGSS are designed to prepare students for college, career,

and citizenship• The NGS and Common Core State Standards (ELA and Math) are

aligned