A monthly inquiry into making meaning and generating curriculum for teaching and learning for Science in middle schools throughout Ventura County. 30 middle school teachers from Ventura Unified School ...

The Framework for K-12 Science Education is, in my opinion, one of the most important documents ever written about the field. Written by the National Research Council, the framework established a ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...

When the Kansas board of education voted to trade its science standards for a national model, board member Ken Willard predicted doing so would spark a lawsuit. Three months later, his prediction came ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2018, Oregon school districts that used the STEMscopes™ NGSS digital science curriculum with their fifth grade students showed higher proficiency rates on the state ...

This paper connects the technological practice of activity monitor gaming to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) science and engineering practice of “analyzing and interpreting data,” and to ...