E-School News – Staff Writer
“Pasadena Unified School District is addressing the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for California by providing its K-6 teachers and students with STEMscopes California, a hands-on digital STEM curriculum built to meet the California NGSS standards. Developed by Accelerate Learning and Rice University, STEMscopes California places problem-based learning, engineering challenges, scientific investigations, math and literacy connections, and culminating claim-evidence-reasoning assessments at teachers’ fingertips, so they can help students understand the NGSS as they were designed. This fall, Pasadena USD will implement STEMscopes in all 24 of its schools that serve students in grades K-6.”(more)