Science Standards and Groups

We started with standards that came from the NSTA - National Science Teachers Association. But they are broad, vague, grade specific, and voluminous.

The move has been to more:
- outcome based - meaning what the students specifically knows how to do
- hierarchial - with big ideas and less significant ideas clearly distinguished
- international - leadership in science standards has moved into the international arena
- scaffolded and spiraling and grade-banded - the talk is now of students covering the same big idea in K-2nd, 3rd-5th, and middle school at different levels of sophistication.

NSTA
NAEP
National Science Education Standards - see content, items, results over time by grade etc
Education Commission - International Standards
Pennsylvania Science Anchors - html conceptual
Pennsylvania Science Anchors - pdf doc