Common Core
Science Standards
What to expect?
Objects
We are:
 preparing our students’ minds for the unknown future.
 preparing our students for college, and jobs.
 changing science education from learning about science
to doing science.
Compare Standard Change
Physical Science – Matter and Its Interactions
 Benchmark 1
Old Standard
 The student will observe,
compare, and classify
properties of matter.
New Standard
 Develop models to
describe the atomic
composition of simple
molecules and extended
structures.
Compare Standard Change
Physical Science – Matter and Its Interactions
 Benchmark 3
Old Standard
 The student will investigate
motion and forces.
New Standard
 Apply Newton’s Third Law to
design a solution to a problem
involving the motion of two
colliding objects.
NGSS
 Next Generation Science Standards
 http://www.nextgenscience.org/case-next-generationscience-standards