Science Cadre Materials

August 2015 NGSS Early Implementers Program

• K-6 Condensed NGSS Performance Expectations & Disciplinary Core Ideas
• Tracking Our Ideas chart
• Structured Think Pair Share chart
• Brain reading (elaborative rehearsal reference)
• Conceptual Flow
  

II.  Properties

• Can You Name It
• Survival Properties
• Mass and Volume
• Children's ideas about volume reading
  
• Mass & Weight (we did not do this, but in case you are interested)
  

III Particles

• How Small
• Disappearing Salt/Dissolving People
  
• Conservation of Matter
• Conservation of Matter Puzzles
• Mesmerizing Colors
• How Squishable
• A Summary of the whole Particle Model

Extra Stuff

• A Thermal Energy Model
• A Water Cycle Model
• Water Cycle activity
• Water Cycle chart