6 things to know about quality K–12 science education in October 2021
Three Quality Units Posted
In the OpenSciEd Unit 7.5: How In the K–12 Alliance Grade 5 What’s Does Changing an Ecosystem Affect in Your Water? unit, students figure What Lives There? students read out why people can drink water headlines that connect that once contained sewage endangered orangutan without getting sick. Using their populations to chocolate candy understanding of physical purchasing. They learn that the properties, students are asked to chocolate ingredient, palm oil, is design a solution including a derived from farms near filtration system to determine rainforests where orangutans what is in a local town’s water live. Students later investigate samples and how to clean it. The alternative approaches to largeunit was identified as an Example scale monocrop food production, of High Quality NGSS Design if and eventually design a palm oil Improved by NextGenScience’s farm that supports both orangutan cadre of expert reviewers. populations and the community. The unit was awarded the NGSS Design Badge by the NextGenScience Peer Review Panel. See the unit and the corresponding EQuIP Rubric for Science evaluation report here.
See the unit and the corresponding EQuIP Rubric for Science evaluation report here.
In the K–12 Alliance Grade 4 Chain Reaction: Energy in Motion unit, students explore energy transfers and transformations in everyday life to explain how a Rube Goldberg® machine works. Students investigate types of energy conversions and use their understanding to design a device that transforms energy. The unit was identified as a Quality Work in Progress by NextGenScience’s cadre of expert reviewers.
See the unit and the corresponding EQuIP Rubric for Science evaluation report here.