Intro to the New Learning Standards in Science (Monmouth)

This overview session provided as a Science Foundational Services is designed to provide school/district level staff with information and tools as they work to develop, improve and align their science curriculum and increase their knowledge of the new Illinois Learning Standards for Science incorporating the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
The training will contain the following components to prepare participants:
1. Identify the attributes of 3-dimensional learning.
2. Compare and contrast the New Illinois Learning Standards for Science incorporating NGSS and the old.
3. Illinois Learning Standards for Science from the viewpoint of 3-dimensional learning.
4. Identify connections between K-12 Framework, NGSS Performance Expectations, foundation boxes and appendices.
5. Explain how these New Illinois Learning Standards for Science, and their incorporation of 3-dimensional learning, will transform science education for kids by engaging them in meaningful, relevant, and coherent investigations.