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• Data
• Brain research
• Student feedback
• 21st century needs
• Learner Agency/Motivation/Engagement
• Research-based best practice

Sample Student Feedback

"It helps you understand what engineers actually do because when we learn something, afterwards I can go back and say, yeah, I remember that, I can connect to it."

• Gianna Pistoria (gr. 6)

Building the foundation of learning by encouraging

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• Developing Understanding & Designing Solutions
• Systems Thinking &

Modeling

• Students Conducting Investigations, Solving Problems, and

Engaging in Discussions

• Students Discussing Open-Ended Questions that Focus on

the Strength of the Evidence Used to Generate Claims

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Doing science and thinking like a scientist ...

• Defining problems & designing multiple solutions
• Students conducting investigations, building models,

solving problems through collaborative problem solving

• Aligned to NGSS Standards from earth, life, and physical

science strands

• Content:
• 6th Grade: Forces & Motion, Geology, Populations & Ecosystems
• 7th Grade: Chemical Interactions, Diversity of life, Heredity & Adaptations
• 8th Grade: Water on Earth, Meteorology, Astronomy

• curriculum revised for 18-19; standards

addressed in context of people and places

• performance of science and engineering

practices through problem and project based learning crosscutting concepts emphasized across earth, life, and physical science core ideas

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• CP Environmental Science
• AP Environmental Science
• Geology of the National Parks
• Astronomy
• Advanced Astronomy
• Oceanography
• Meteorology
• PL

TW Environmental Sustainability

• Anatomy & Physiology, CP
• Botany &

Zoology

• Genetics/Microbiology, Honors
• AP Biology
• l<eystone Biology- Honors, CP, Applied

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• Chemistry
• AP Chemistry
• AP Physics 1
• AP Physics 2
• AP Physics C
• Physics
• New Course:

Physics of

Movement {Biomechanics)

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