The Next Generation Science Standards
Printer-friendly versionThe Next Generation Science Standards are now available. Twenty-six states and their broad-based teams worked together with a 41-member writing team and partners throughout the country to develop the standards.
- NGSS Front Matter
- NGSS Structure
- Appendices to the Second Draft:
- Conceptual Shifts
- Responses to Public Drafts
- College and Career Readiness (Coming Soon)
- All Standards, All Students
- Disciplinary Core Idea Progressions
- Science and Engineering Practices
- Crosscutting Concepts
- Nature of Science
- Engineering Design in the NGSS
- Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment
- Model Course Mapping in Middle and High School (Coming Soon)
- Connections to CCSS-Mathematics (Coming Soon)
- Connections to CCSS-ELA (Coming Soon)
- Commonly Used Abbreviations
- Why Standards Matter
- Public Attitudes Toward Science Standards
- Video: Why NGSS?
There are three ways to view the standards:
Arranged by Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI)
Search individual performance expectations
The NGSS are composed of the three dimensions from the NRC Framework. Click on the links to the left and see the videos below to learn more about the standards.