Small World Consulting with Chris Charnitski
Helping you navigate the challenging terrain of three dimensional instruction.
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NGSS Foundations: How to engage with the Performance Expectations: This may just change the way you understand, plan for and implement the NGSS
So many aspects of the three dimensional standards and how the authors intended educators to engage with them fell into place for me when I read this article many years ago – and it has informed my work ever since. The article, “Q and A on Unpacking Three-Dimensional Standards” written by Jeremy Peacock and Ted…
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NGSS Assessment: Quick primer
4 key aspects of 3D aligned assessments from OpenSciEd (and some more detailed info for those interested) OpenSciEd (OSE) has long proven themselves as the leader in quality (freely available : ) curriculum at all levels of education. I’ll write a post soon sharing links to OSE resources at various grade levels. In a nutshell, OSE…
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Data Literacy K – 12: Teacher friendly data resource and protocol
If you are familiar with the work of Jo Boaler and youcubed, it’s probably in the context of math education. You may have heard of number sense – but what about data sense? This team has also done wonderful work around data literacy. In any NGSS school system, working towards data literacy as early as…
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NGSS Foundations: Quick guide for finding and downloading your standards pages
I created this Quick Guide for those of you new to the Next Generation Science Standards. The document walks you through the process of finding your standards pages and downloading them so that you might print them out or save them somewhere on your drive.
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