The Trussville City Schools Science Team met today with area school districts for the first of four meetings during the 15-16 school year to unpack the newly adopted 2015 Alabama State Science Standards. The team includes administrators and teachers representing every grade level and science content areas. The team will turn the training around to all science teachers during the year.
The goal of Alabama's K-12 science standards is the achievement of scientific and engineering literacy by all students. The conceptual framework includes the three basic dimensions for establishing scientific and engineering literacy - scientific and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas. Scientific and engineering practices are a set of skills and tools used by students to investigate, construct models, design and build systems, and develop theories about the world in which they live. Crosscutting concepts are unifying themes that link scientific and engineering ideas across all domains of science. Disciplinary core ideas in the four domains of Physical Sciences; Life Sciences; Earth and Space Sciences; and Engineering Technology, and Application of Science are broad concepts that provide students with foundational knowledge.
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