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Next Generation Science Standards identifies the science all K-12 students should know. These new standards are based on the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education. The National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve have partnered to create standards through a collaborative state-led process. The standards are rich in content and practice and arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education.

The print version of Next Generation Science Standards complements the nextgenscience.org website and:

  • Provides an authoritative offline reference to the standards when creating lesson plans
  • Arranged by grade level and by core discipline, making information quick and easy to find
  • Printed in full color with a lay-flat spiral binding
  • Allows for bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating

RESOURCES AT A GLANCE

Video(s):

Science Unscrambled: The Next Generation Science Standards
NSTA Past Executive Director Discusses NGSS

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Suggested Citation

National Research Council. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/18290.

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Publication Info

532 pages | 10 x 8.25 | 

ISBNs: 
  • Paperback:  978-0-309-27227-8
  • Ebook:  978-0-309-27230-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/18290
Chapters skim
Front Matter i-xxviii
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS: Arranged by Disciplinary Core Ideas 1-130
Connections to Standards: Arranged by Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) 131-162
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS: Arranged by Topics 163-292
Connections to Standards: Arranged by Topics 293-324
VOLUME 2: APPENDIXES 325-334
APPENDIX A: Conceptual Shifts in the Next Generation Science Standards 335-338
APPENDIX B: Responses to the Public Drafts 339-344
APPENDIX C: College And Career Readiness 345-358
APPENDIX D: "All Standards, All Students": Making the Next Generation Science Standards Accessible to All Students 359-373
APPENDIX E: Disciplinary Core Idea Progressions in the Next Generation Science Standards 374-381
APPENDIX F: Science and Engineering Practices in the Next Generation Science Standards 382-412
APPENDIX G: Crosscutting Concepts in the Next Generation Science Standards 413-429
APPENDIX H: Understanding the Scientific Enterprise: The Nature of Science in the Next Generation Science Standards 430-436
APPENDIX I: Engineering Design in the Next Generation Science Standards 437-441
APPENDIX J: Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment 442-446
APPENDIX K: Model Course Mapping in Middle and High School for the Next Generation Science Standards 447-471
APPENDIX L: Connections to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics 472-492
APPENDIX M: Connections to the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 493-504

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Links

  • Next Generation Science Standards Resource Value Pack
    The Value Pack includes Next Generation Science Standards, Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards, and A Framework for K-12 Science Education. Buy all three books together to save on the total list price!
  • NRC Review of Next Generation Science Standards (PDF)
    This statement from the National Research Council affirms that the Next Generation Science Standards "are consistent with the content and structure" of A Framework for K-12 Science Education. It is also available in the front matter of Next Generation Science Standards: For States, by States.
  • Errata: Addition to Appendix K
    Download a supplementary PDF that provides an example of a state-specific arrangement of NGSS performance expectations: a revision of the Conceptual Progressions Course Map for middle school students by California's Science Expert Panel (SEP).
  • Infographic: Essential Practices for K-12 Science Classrooms
    This interactive infographic from the National Academies Press highlights essential practices for K-12 science classrooms from A Framework for K-12 Science Education with references to the contents of the full report.

Related Information

Marking the culmination of a three-year, multiphase process, on April 10th, 2013, a 26-state consortium released the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a detailed description of the key scientific ideas and practices that all students should learn by the time they graduate from high school.

Next Generation Science Standards: For States, by States, published by the National Academies Press, is the authoritative print version of those standards released online by Achieve, Inc.

The standards are based largely on the 2011 National Research Council report, A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas.

Videos

Science Unscrambled: The Next Generation Science Standards

In this video, Dr. Heidi Schweingruber, deputy director of the NRC's Board on Science Education (BOSE) and co-director of the study that produced A Framework for K-12 Science Education, explains how the Next Generation Science Standards were developed, why the standards matter, and what's new in the print edition published by the National Academies Press.

NSTA Past Executive Director Discusses NGSS

This video shows NSTA's past executive director discussing the challenges and importance of NGSS.

Panel Discussion on How to Implement NGSS

The AAAS panel discussion on NGSS focuses on the changes the new standards for K-12 students would bring and how states, schools, and teachers would implement them.

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