This site has many great resources for teachers, including engineering and STEM projects that relate to the new standards. They even are color coded like the standards! (Don't know about the coloring coding? Check out the link below!)
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Derek Lecy, 5th grade at Bahia Vista, shared these two links about using drawing in science to help students better internalize their experiences and knowledge. I know many teachers who are using these lessons to supplement their science. These units are geared fro 2-6 grade. Lindsay Hess, Wade Thomas, is among them and sent me the link. Many of you might have gotten the email at the beginning of the school year that offered them for free if you gave them 5 email addresses. It looks like they will be charging to use these next school year. Check them out to see if it would be worth your school and/or district to purchase. Mystery Science provides open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. Our online resource makes it easy for elementary school teachers to deliver an incredible science lesson without a science background. Rather than a textbook approach to science vocabulary, hands-on activities engage students with the mysteries of science and expose them to the joy of scientific inquiry at an early age. Lessons are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and support Common Core with the reading extensions. There is so much on this website to explore! There are workshops, lesson plans, videos, and materials. Below are some of my favorite. Some have been shared before and some are new!
From Ranae Roemer at Davidson:. " I like this activity because it covers NGSS and CCSS ELA standards. The kids have to problem solve how to cut “equal” pieces and are usually very surprised at the planet sizes once the activity is completed. We include Pluto in this activity so they can see how tiny it is compared to the other planets. I do this activity after the students have learned about the formation of the solar system and the characteristics of the inner and outer planets."
I tried a lesson from this site in a 4th grade classroom about waves. It was a well thought out lesson with videos to show what the student working looked like and a record sheet for the students. The There are a lot of lessons here to try! Thanks Robert Atkinson for this resource!
Referenced in the new NGSS draft frameworks. Based on the previous science standards but does have correlation charts for the new standards.
From San Mateo County Office of Education. A unit of study that integrates science (NGSS), math, and language arts.
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iTEAMS is a professional development research project designed to provide teachers with support to deepen their content knowledge and pedagogy to promote STEM education aligned to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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