Customizable Segments with Layered Phenomena
Teaching with Segments
Why segmenting the NGSS is important
NGSS Performance Expectations were not designed to be taught in isolation: segmenting them together helps students see connections between ideas, enhances phenomena-driven instruction, saves valuable planning time, and ensures that all PEs are given sufficient emphasis while having a coherent storyline.
Segments can be grouped by topic, DCI, and other creative approaches—there is no one correct way, other than involving student choice and having a culminating activity anchored with a central phenomenon that requires students to apply the 3D learning gained in the segment’s constituent activities.
Segmenting Storylines
Segment storylines your way or use ours
Segments immerse your students in overarching STEM phenomena while linking the three dimensions across scopes (lesson modules). STEMscopes CA NGSS 3D offers pre-made segments and empowers you as the educator to create your own to suit the unique interests and inquiry of your students.
- Segments contain overarching missions, action plans, and anchoring phenomena that tie scopes together.
- Track student progress on CCCs and SEPs with new rubrics and the Inventory of Skill.
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Sample Segments
4th - 5th Grades Sample Segments
MS Physical, MS Earth & Space, MS Life Sample Segments
Sample Segments in STEMscopes CA NGSS 3D
Our Approach to Segments
Providing teachers flexibility around segmenting is a hallmark of NGSS alignment. STEMscopes CA NGSS 3D provides pre-made segments based on central anchoring phenomena, and also deconstructs them into individual scopes based on a core investigative phenomenon so that educators can work with students to create their own segments.
Adapted from Achieve and NGSS.
Learn more at
https://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/default/files/Example Bundles Guide.pdf