Core Ideas as the basis for teaching science

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Why Core Ideas and LearningProgressions?• Many ideas in science are complex or evencounter-intuitive.• It takes time (sometimes years) to fullyunderstand these ideas.• Learning is lifelong: Core Ideas = Big Ideas
Standards, Curricula, and Assessment:What to Teach and When• Revise standards, curricula and assessment to reflect newunderstanding of children’s thinking.• Next generation of standards and curricula should bestructured to identify a few core ideas in a discipline andhow these ideas can be grown in a cumulative mannerover grades K-8.• Developers of curricula and standards need to presentscience as a process of building theories and models usingevidence, checking them for internal consistency andcoherence, and testing them empirically.
Page 4 and 5: Problems in US Science Education
Page 6 and 7: NRC & BOSE Reports Related to Learn
Page 8 and 9: Core Ideas and LearningProgressions
Page 12 and 13: Instruction: How to Teach• Scienc
Page 14 and 15: General Approach Identify a coheren
Page 16 and 17: Core Ideas and Learning Progression
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Page 20 and 21: A framework for Standards• Develo
Page 22 and 23: Core concepts frameworkCore ideas o
Page 24 and 25: Process Principles• Transparency
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