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 40-member writing team and partners throughout the country to develop the standards.
- NGSS Front Matter
- NGSS Structure
- NGSS Appendices:
- Conceptual Shifts
- Responses to Public Drafts
- College and Career Readiness
- All Standards, All Students / Case Studies
- 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
- Connections to CCSS-Mathematics
- Connections to CCSS-Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
- Commonly Used Abbreviations
- NRC Review of the NGSS
- Why Standards Matter
- Public Attitudes Toward Science Standards
- Video: Why NGSS?
There are three ways to view the standards:
View the NGSS in Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) Arrangements
View the NGSS in Topic Arrangements
View and Search the NGSS performance expectations individually
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.