NGSS Core Ideas: Earth’s Systems
NSTA continues to explore the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by presenting a web seminar series focusing on the disciplinary core ideas. The fall series features four informative and interactive web seminars on physical science core ideas and three on Earth and space science. The series will continue in 2014 with web seminars on life science and engineering design.
The web seminar on the disciplinary core idea of Earth’s Systems addresses questions such as “What regulates weather and climate?” and “What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?”
This web seminar will provide guidance on:
- why it's important for students to understand Earth's systems
- how students' understanding of Earth's systems might progress over their K-12 education
- how ideas that students have about Earth's systems can be leveraged during instruction; and
- how to incorporate the scientific and engineering practices into instruction so students can deepen their understanding of Earth's systems