What are your hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards?

What are your

hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards?

Welcome!

Navigating Washington State’s New Science Standards

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After today I will….

1. Know why we have new science standards.2. Understand how the new science standards

document is organized.3. Identify the Big Ideas of the new science

standards document.4. Be able to use the document to identify

what students in my grade band should know and be able to do.

Why New Standards?In 2007 the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1906 calling for:

The State Board of Education to review our current science standards.

OSPI to revise the science standards.

Why New Standards?Better prepare students to:

Participate in post-secondary education

Meet the workforce needs of tomorrow

Contribute to the future of our state and the world as scientifically literate citizens

Provide a tool for teachers to use in identifying learning outcomes.

Characteristics of the Revised Science Standards

Overview

Standards Content Standard Performance Expectation

Earth is approximately spherical in shape. Things on or near the Earth are pulled toward Earth’s center by the force of gravity.

Give evidence to support the idea that Earth is spherical in shape (e.g., research Earth images from space, shape of Earth’s shadow on the Moon during an eclipse of the Moon).

Draw how objects would fall when dropped from various places around Earth, demonstrating that all things fall “down” toward Earth’s center.

Group AssignmentsGroup 1 – Science standards grade band

summary page.Group 2 — Summary paragraph at the top of

each page.Group 3 —Content Standards and Performance

ExpectationsGroup 4 — Math Connections

Process What You Heard1. Stand Up. 2. Find someone in the room you have not

talked to before. 3. Summarize what you just heard.

Appendices• Glossary• Big Ideas

Evolution

Force & Motion

Matter

Earth in Space EnergyEarth Structures

Earth History

Ecosystem

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Structure &

Function

Find a topic in the Standards you already teach.

Could my students meet these performance expectations?

What’s the big idea of which this topic is a part?

Putting it all together

Organized by Big Ideas. Teach for mastery. Do not repeat topics. Fewer topics in greater

depth.

Crosscutting Conceptsand Abilities

Systems Inquiry Application

In the standards these are included as content, not teaching methods.

Next Step:School or District Planning

Decide on grade level placement by “sliding” science units up or down within grade bands.

Professional development on Inquiry in the State Standards.

What is mine to Decide? Determine the best teaching

methods How to meet your students’

needs How to excite your students

about science!

Revisiting Hopes and Fears

What changed in your thinking?

Thank you for coming!

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