Note About Content Standards:
While the curriculum will certainly tie into the standards, which are the Next Generation Science Standards, the purpose of the following mini units, which range in length from six to nine days is not to provide content instruction, but instead to build interest and allow students to see the importance and relevance of this course in their daily lives. Because of this, these instructional activities, while important to my previously stated goal, are NOT designed to fit any content standards. Some of them may, especially the cross-cutting concepts in the NGSS; students will be looking at maps and data – including data that they collect, they will be noticing patterns and trends, they will be drawing conclusions, but none of what follows is designed to cover any content standards and therefore I don’t mention the standards at all.
