NGSS Lesson Study Storyline

Names:      Big Idea:     

Grade Level/Course:     

Targeted NGSS Performance Expectation(s): Shifts in NGSS:

      1. Organized around disciplinary core ideas
(explanatory ideas)
2. Central role of scientific practices
3. Coherence: building and applying ideas
across time.

A. Unit Objectives and Criteria Overview:

Phenomena: Overarching Question:
           

Goal for Lesson Study: Gapless Explanation:

           

Criteria for Lesson Study: Performance Expectations:

           

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B. Storyline

Overarching Question: Anchoring Phenomena: How will you initially introduce your
            phenomena?
     

Driving Questions to help explain the Making sense through SEPs/Student What Students Figured Out:
phenomena: Experience”
                 

                 

                 

                 

                 

                 

                 

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C. Research Lesson

Lesson Title:      

Phenomena-Driven Question for Lesson:      

How might this lesson support your students’ conceptual understanding of the topic?      

Framing: How will you encourage

Rationale: How will this section of the lesson
Lesson Sequence: What are the student discourse for the purpose of
support student’s understanding or
Time steps to support student thinking sharing/shaping or refining their
development of the concepts?
over time? thinking (questions, strategies, etc.)?

                       

                       

                       

                       

                       

                       

                       

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