We are using this URL to keep track of our curriculum work and resources fro the 2014-15 school year.
Our revised science curriculum was built based on the Wisconsin Standards with an eye toward the NGSS. As with the other national curriculum initiatives these standards emphasize process which are articulated in the first two dimensions of the framework below. The standards were also written to compliment the Common Core English Language Arts Standards as well as the Math Standards. The emphasis on process is emphasized in our district vision and mission statement for science:
Local Vision Statement: Our vision is to develop independent thinkers who pursue
knowledge and apply scientific principles to explore their world.
Local Mission Statement: Our mission is to nurture the innate curiosity of all students
through rigorous, relevant, and authentic hands-on activities that encourage them to inquire,
problem solve, and better understand the scientific world around them.
Links for local curriculum information:
The Three Dimensions of the NGSS Framework
1. Scientific and Engineering Practices- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for
- engineering).
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions
- (for engineering)
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
- Patterns
- Cause and effect: Mechanisms and explanation
- Scale, proportion and quantity
- Systems and system models
- Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation
- Structure and function
- Stability and change
- Physical Sciences
- PS1: Matter and its interactions
- PS2: Motion and stability: Forces and interactions
- PS3: Energy
- PS4: Waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer
- Life Sciences
- LS1: From molecules to organisms: Structures and processes
- LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, energy and dynamics
- LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and variation of traits
- LS4: Biological evolution: Unity and diversity
- Earth and Space Sciences
- ESS1: Earth’s place in the universe
- ESS2: Earth’s systems
- ESS3: Earth and human activity
- Engineering, Technology and the Applications of Science
- ETS1: Engineering design
- ETS2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
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