Core Ideas as the basis for teaching science

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.