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NGSS Lessons for Educators
The following lessons are free to download for use in classrooms, however, they may not be used for any commercial purpose without expressed written permission.
PD Workshop Resources
- Making NGSS Lessons Worksheet
- Lesson Plan Template (pdf) (Word doc)
- DOK
- Learning Styles 1
- Learning Styles 2
- Pre-Lab
- Lab Report Rubric
- Project Reflection Worksheet
- Three Dimensions of NGSS
- Annotation of Science Texts
- Desalination Presentation
Other NGSS Water-Related Science Lessons
- Teachers Pay Teachers
- Earth Science Week (ESW) Activities
(search on “water” – 25 lessons) - ESW – Land and People
- ESW – Modeling Oil and Gas Reserves
- ESW – Sea Level and the Terrapin
- ESW – Sinkholes in a Cup
- ESW – Your Own El Nino
- Teach Engineering
General Water Education and Non-NGSS Lessons
- Water Science Glossary
- American Water 125
- USGS Water Science School
- California Department of Water Resources Water Education
- EPA Water Science
- EPA Educational Resources for Students/Teachers
- CUAHSI
- Planet H2O
- Explore Learning
- Smithsonian
- Royal Society of London
- 3M Science
- AAAS Science NetLink
- National Science Digital Library
- Flinn Lab Safety
- Teachers Try Science
- TedEd
- Create-a-Graph
- Kahoot Quiz Maker
NGSS Resources