10 things to know in April 2023 Ten Years of the NGSS! In this special edition of NGSS Now, we’re celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Next Generation Science Standards, which were released April 9, 2013. We’re sharing resources — old and new — that connect to some of the biggest takeaways the field has had rolling out these and similar rigorous learning goals across the country.
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Providing Example Instructional Materials: New Quality High School Unit Posted
Over the last ten years, the field has learned about the features of high-quality science instructional materials, and their importance in making the shifts in classrooms that today’s science standards demand. In this time, over 50 lessons and units have been posted on nextgenscience.org as quality examples for the field to use and learn from. Each of these examples is also linked on the corresponding standards pages the example aims to address. In a quality high school unit posted this month, students investigate the
fictionalized case of Hina Marsey, an eleven-year-old girl who is diagnosed with a form of leukemia. They explore the effect mutations can have on cells as they divide and differentiate, how cancer can disrupt our body’s systems, and how science is used to develop treatments and cures. See the free Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center unit and corresponding EQuIP Rubric for Science evaluation report posted in April 2023 here. It is also linked on the standards pages for HS-LS1-1, HS-LS1-2, and HS-LS1-4.