NYS Science Learning Standards Toolkit

We hope that you find the following items helpful:

• Brief video about New York’s draft Science Standards

• “Frequently Asked Questions” about the development and implementation of the Standards

• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) organization and appendices provide supporting documentation and information as an example of the type of supports that should be available for the NYS SLS. Particularly important appendices to complete the survey include: Appendix A: Conceptual Shifts; Appendix D: All Standards/All Students; Appendix I: Engineering Design in the NGSS; and Appendix K: Model Course Mapping in Middle and High School.

• The NGSS also has a variety of videos that have already been very helpful to teachers and administrators as a means to provide examples of how science teaching and learning will change.

• DRAFT NYS Science Learning Standards

• Finally, the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Elementary Science Program has created a PowerPoint presentation that we use when training teachers about the NYSSLS. The PowerPoint presentation may be found in the file below.

If you have questions about the NYSSLS draft, please contact Mary Thomas at [email protected]