Week 3: Exploring NGSS
I am applying standard MS-PS2-5 to the magnet lesson. Part 1: Performance Expectations The performance expectation states that students that understand the material can "Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even through the objects are not in contact." I find that the expectations of the students are very clear. It is saying that students should be able to set up and perform an experiment that tests the force interaction as a result of magnet, electric and gravitational fields and be able to interpret the data to explain what happens in their experiment. Basically it is asking the teacher to set up a lesson where students can explore and test the concept of forces that act at a distance and see how they affect other objects. I feel that the standards are very straight forward and the SEPs, DCIs and CCCs are set in stone with little room for interpret...