The Next Generation Science Standards are now available.

http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards

The 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 NGSS:
  
  1. Conceptual Shifts
  2. Responses to May Public Feedback
  3. College and Career Readiness (Coming Soon)
  4. All Standards, All Students (Coming Soon)
  5. Disciplinary Core Idea Progressions
  6. Science and Engineering Practices 
  7. Crosscutting Concepts 
  8. Nature of Science(Coming Soon)
  9. Engineering Design in the NGSS
  10. Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment
  11. Model Course Mapping in Middle and High School (Coming Soon)
  12. Connections to CCSS-Mathematics (Coming Soon)
  13. Connections to CCSS-ELA Literacy (Coming Soon)
• Commonly Used Abbreviations
• Why Standards Matter
• Public Attitudes Toward Science Standards
• Video: Why NGSS?

Download PDFs of the NGSS:

Arranged by Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI)

Arranged by Topic

The standards are also available on Scribd.

The NGSS are composed of the three dimensions from the NRC Framework. Click on the links to the left to learn more about the standards