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A Framework for K-12

Science Education

Alice Gilchrist

Julie King

S²TEM Centers SC


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To what extent are you familiar with

A Framework for K-12 Science Education?

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at them

I know the Framework inside and out!


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want to know

about the

Framework?


The Framework reflects the most current professional

understanding about learning science.


•Children are born investigators •Focus on a limited set of core ideas and practices •Understanding of science develops over time •Science and engineering both require knowledge and practice •Learning should connect to students’ interests and experiences •Standards are for all students

Guiding Principles of the Framework


“The Framework is designed to help realize a vision for education in the sciences and engineering in which (all) students, over multiple years of school, actively engage in science and engineering practices and apply crosscutting concepts to deepen their understanding of the core ideas in these fields.”

Vision for Science Education


The framework is designed with the understanding “that students cannot fully understand scientific and engineering ideas without engaging in the practices and the discourses by which such ideas are developed and refined.”


Structure of the Standards

•Science and Engineering Practices

•Disciplinary Core Ideas

•Crosscutting Concepts

The practices are the processes of building and using the core ideas to make sense of the natural and designed world, and the cross cutting concepts hold the discipline together.

Core Ideas

Practices

Crosscutting Concepts

Eight Practices – Asking questions and defining

problems – Developing and using models – Planning and carrying out

investigations – Analyzing and interpreting data – Using mathematics and

computational thinking – Constructing Explanations and

Designing Solutions – Engaging in argument from

evidence – Obtaining, evaluating, and

communicating information

Seven Crosscutting Concepts o Patterns o Cause and effect o Scale, proportion, and quantity o Systems and system models o Energy and matter: Flows,

cycles, and conservation o Structure and function o Stability and change

• Four Disciplinary Core Ideas: Life Science, Physical Science Earth and Space Science Engineering Technology and

Applications of Science

Three Dimensions of the Framework


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Eight Practices

1. Asking questions and defining problems 2. Developing and using models 3. Planning and carrying out investigations 4. Analyzing and interpreting data 5. Using mathematics and computational thinking 6. Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 7. Engaging in argument from evidence 8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information


Seven Crosscutting Concepts

1. Patterns 2. Cause and effect 3. Scale, proportion, and quantity 4. Systems and system models 5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation 6. Structure and function 7. Stability and change


Four Disciplinary Core Ideas: 1. Life Science 2. Physical Science 3. Earth and Space Science 4. Engineering


Journal Club Scientific and Engineering Practices

The Second Dimension

Core Ideas of Engineering


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What do you

want to know

about the

Framework?

To what extent are you familiar with

A Framework for K-12 Science Education?

1 5

I haven’t even looked

at them

I know the Framework inside and out!



“Teaching for understanding is profoundly

different from teaching for coverage”.

How do you see the

Framework

providing solutions

for this change?

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