South Carolina’s New Science

StandardsBe very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will

never, ever, get it out.

(Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (d.1540)

Most of what we teach in schools, are the answers to questions. Unfortunately, we never share the questions with the kids.

Some Common Core Commonalities

•Reading informational texts.•Focus on students’ ability to demonstrate understanding.

•Explaining answers.•Giving examples.•Process AND content equally important.

The new South Carolina Science Standards complement the Common Core Standards

The work done to implement the CC standards will also support the implementation of the new SC Science Standards

Time Line

February-March Field Review

March Compile Feedback

April-June Correct/Revise based on feedback

August Synopsis and Draft Standards to SBE

Second Reading and Approval November 2013

Scientific and Engineering Practices

1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)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 (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).7. Engaging in argument from evidence.8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

Crosscutting Concepts

1. Patterns2. Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanations.3. Scale, proportion, and quantity.4. Systems and system models.5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation.6. Stability and change.

Three Dimensions of the FrameworkVision: 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. The learning experiences should engage students with fundamental questions about the world andwith how scientists have investigated and found answers to those questions.

Disciplinary Core IdeasLife SciencePhysical ScienceEarth and Space SciencesEngineering DesignLinks Among Technology, Science, and Society

Constructing a Standard

CDI + SEP (CCC) SPE

PS1.A: The Structure and Properties of MatterDifferent kinds of matter exist (e.g., wood, metal, water) and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature.Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties (e.g., visual, aural, textual), by its uses, and by whether it occurs naturally or is manufactured.

Core Disciplinary Idea

Asking Questions and Defining ProblemsAsk questions based on observations of the natural and/or designed world.

Planning and Carrying out InvestigationsWith guidance, design and conduct investigations in collaboration with peers.Make direct or indirect observations and/or measurements to collect data which can be used to make comparisons.

Science and Engineering Practices

PatternsPatterns in the natural and human design world can be observed, used to describe phenomena and used as evidence.

Cause and EffectEvents have causes the generate observable patterns.Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Crosscutting Concepts

Connections to Engineering, Technology, and Applications of

Science

People depend on various technologies in their lives; human life would be very different without technology.every human-made product is designed by applying some knowledge of the natural world and is built by using materials derived from the natural world, even when the materials are not themselves natural — for example, spoons made from refined metals.

Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society in the Natural World

K-PS1-a. Design and conduct an investigation of several different kinds of materials to describe their observable properties and classify the materials based on the patterns observed.

K-PS1-b. Design and conduct investigations to test the idea that some materials can be a solid or liquid depending on temperature.

K-PS1-c. Ask questions, based on observations, to classify different objects by their use and to identify whether they occur naturally or human-made.

K-PS1-a. Design and conduct an investigation of several different kinds of materials to describe their observable properties and classify the materials based on the patterns observed.

K-PS1-b. Design and conduct investigations to test the idea that some materials can be a solid or liquid depending on temperature.

K-PS1-c. Ask questions, based on observations, to classify different objects by their use and to identify whether they occur naturally or human-made.PS1.A: The Structure and Properties of

MatterDifferent kinds of matter exist (e.g., wood, metal, water) and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature.Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties (e.g., visual, aural, textural), by its uses, and by whether it occurs naturally or is manufactured.

Asking Questions and Defining ProblemsAsk questions based on observations of the natural and/or designed world.

Planning and Carrying out InvestigationsWith guidance, design and conduct investigations in collaboration with peers.Make direct or indirect observations and/or measurements to collect data which can be used to make comparisons.

Crosscutting ConceptsPatternsCause and EffectConnections

1.The new standards are consistent with the most recent understandings about the nature of learning science;

2.The new standards, therefore, provide teachers with better support for teaching science; and

3.The new standards provide students with learning experiences that reflect the nature of science.

Point One:

The new standards are consistent with the most recent understandings about the nature of science learning

Extensive Investigation

1993Science for all Americans

Benchmarks for Science Literacy

1996National Science Education Standards

2009Science Framework for NAEP

College Board Standards for College Success

2007Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8

2008One, Two, Three, Science!

2010

A Framework for K-12 Science Education2012

Effective Science Education Research-based Assumptions

•Children are born investigators

•Focus on Core Ideas and Practices

•Understanding Develops Over Time

•Science and Engineering Require Both Knowledge

and Practice

•Connect to Students’ Interests and Experiences

•Promote Equity

Point Two:

The new standards, therefore, provide teachers with better support for teaching science:

Practices

Core Disciplinary Ideas

Crosscutting Concepts

Eight Science and Engineering Practices

1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)

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 (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)

7. Engaging in argument from evidence

8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Kindergarten: Ask questions based on observations, to classify different objects by their use and to identify whether they occur naturally or are human-made.

Grade 5: Ask questions about what organisms obtain from their environment and what they releases waste matter back into the environment.

Middle school: Ask questions to clarify the nature of empirical evidence contributing to explanations for the relationship between the behavior of organisms and successful reproduction.

High school: Ask questions that challenge the relative advantages of analog versus digital transmission of information in order to determine if the questions are testable and relevant.

Limited Number of Core Science Ideas

Core Idea PS1: Matter and Its Interactions

PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter PS1.B: Chemical ReactionsPS1.C: Nuclear Processes

Core Idea PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

PS2.A: Forces and MotionPS2.B: Types of InteractionsPS2.C: Stability and Instability in Physical Systems

Core Idea PS3: Energy

PS3.A: Definitions of EnergyPS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer PS3.C: Relationship Between Energy and ForcesPS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life

Core Idea PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

PS4.A: Wave PropertiesPS4.B: Electromagnetic RadiationPS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation

Physical Science

Core Idea LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

LS1.A: Structure and FunctionLS1.B: Growth and Development of OrganismsLS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms LS1.D: Information Processing

Core Idea LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in EcosystemsLS2.B: Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience LS2.D: Social Interactions and Group Behavior

Core Idea LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits LS3.B: Variation of Traits

Core Idea LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity LS4.B: Natural SelectionLS4.C: AdaptationLS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans

Life Science

Core Idea ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe

ESS1.A: The Universe and Its Stars ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

Core Idea ESS2: Earth’s Systems

ESS2.A: Earth Materials and SystemsESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes ESS2.D: Weather and ClimateESS2.E: Biogeology

Core Idea ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

ESS3.A: Natural ResourcesESS3.B: Natural HazardsESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems ESS3.D: Global Climate Change

Earth and Space Science

Core Idea ETS1: Engineering Design

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem ETS1.B: Developing Possible SolutionsETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution

Core Idea ETS2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

ETS2.A: Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and TechnologyETS2.B: Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World

Engineering Design and Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and

Society

Supporting Teaching

An Example Standard

Design and conduct investigations to test the idea that some materials can be a solid or liquid depending on temperature.

Science & Engineering Practices

Different kinds of materials exist (e.g., wood, metal, water) and many of them can be either solid or liquid depending on temperature.

Core Disciplinar

y Idea

Cause and Effect: Events have causes that generate observable patterns.Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Crosscutting

Concepts

Supporting Student Learning

5-ESS1-a. Interpret provided data about the relative distances of the sun and other stars from Earth to explain the difference in their apparent brightness.*

Process and Content Integrated

Content and Process Grow Together

K-ESS3-a. Obtain information to describe the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and where they live on the land or in the water.

5-ESS3-a. Design and evaluate a solution to an environmental problem that decreases risks, increases benefits, or better meet societal demands for new or improved technologies.

MS-ESS3-a. Construct explanations based on evidence from multiple sources for how the uneven distribution of Earth’s mineral and energy resources, which are limited in typically non-renewable, is a result of past and current geologic processes often associated with plate tectonics.

HS-ESS3-a. Construct explanations based on evidence for how the development of human societies has been influenced by natural resource availability.

Implementation Tools

•Performance Expectations

•Learning Progressions

•Clarification Statements

•Assessment Boundaries

•Performance Expectations

5-LS2-a. Construct and use models of food webs to describe the transfer of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment and discuss limitations of these models.

•Learning ProgressionsBy the end of grade 5. Matter of any type can be subdivided into particles that are too small to see, but even then the matter still exists and can be detected by other means (e.g., by weighing, by its effects on other objects). For example, a model that gases are made from matter particles too small to see that are moving freely around in space can explain such observations as the impacts of gas particles on surfaces (e.g., of a balloon) and on larger particles or objects (e.g., wind, dust suspended in air) and the appearance of visible scale water droplets in condensation, fog, and, by extension, clouds or contrails of a jet. The amount (weight) of matter is conserved when it changes form, even in transitions in which it seems to vanish (e.g., sugar in solution, evaporation in a closed container). Measurements of a variety of properties (e.g., hardness, reflectivity) can be used to identify particular materials. (Boundary: At this grade level, mass and weight are not distinguished, and no attempt is made to define the unseen particles or explain the atomic-scale mechanism of evaporation and condensation.)

Clarifications and Assessment Boundaries

5-ESS1-c. Identify evidence that supports explanations for how the position of stars, constellations, and planets in the sky change in consistent patterns as the Earth rotates and orbits the sun along with other planets.

Clarification: Evidence consists of information from observations and other sources of the positions of objects in the night sky.

Performances do not require understanding the mechanism for seasons.

Students Who are Proficient in Science:Understand Scientific Explanations

Know, use, and interpret scientific explanations of the natural world.

• Understand interrelations among central scientific concepts.

• build and critique scientific arguments.

• Content with a focus on concepts and the links between them rather than on discrete facts.

• Applications of scientific knowledge.

Students Who are Proficient in Science:Can Generate Scientific Evidence

• Generate and evaluating evidence. (93 examples)

• Building and refining models and explanations of the natural world.(124 examples)

• Process with an emphasis on the theory and model-building aspect of science.(124)

• Knowledge and skills to design and analyze investigations.(70 examples)

• Construct and defend arguments with evidence.(114 examples)

• Make judgements about the adequacy of the evidence to support and argument.(79 examples)

Students Who are Proficient in Science:

Reflect on Scientific Knowledge

• Understanding the nature of science.

• Science knowledge builds on itself over time.

• Metacognitive understanding of their own knowledge and how it changes over time.

• Understand how scientific knowledge is constructed; that is, how evidence and arguments are generated.

51 examples

Students Who are Proficient in Science:Participate Productively in Science

• Understand the values and norms in order to participate in science.

•Know how to represent ideas, use scientific tools, and interact with peers in science practice.

•Motivation and attitudes for students to be actively and productively engaged in the science classroom.

•Understanding the importance of doing science singly and collaboratively with peers.

• Science students benefit from sharing ideas with peers, building interpretive accounts of data, and working together to discern which accounts are most persuasive.

124 examples

Develop and use models to support explanations about the structure and functional relationships in cells in specific parts of the cell (i.e., nucleus, chloroplasts, mitochondria, cell membrane, and cell wall).

Students Who are Proficient in Science:

Can Generate Scientific Evidence

64 examples

•Assessments•How will you support classroom formative assessment?

•Teacher learning•What do teachers need to know for the CC and Science standards and how are you going to help them get it and support them as they are getting it?

•Where are teacher learning communities when you need them?