Revised+Colorado+Science+Standards

=**Revised Colorado Science Standards**= =**What does science instruction look like in the 21st century?**= ===**-GO to the URL below and see the presentation and documents from the training. Then below are some that I noted while attending:** **URL: http: //tinyurl.com/CSC-post-sesson**===
 * ===**Here is the PowerPoint from the workshop and the documents they used**===
 * ===**There is a document that shows where the terms match with the organization of the standards (uses arrows)**===
 * **Mastery: defined by the transfer and applicaton to novel situations**
 * **Evidence Outcomes: similiar to OLD assessment frameworks that CDE had with OLD Standards**


 * DRAFT - Colorado 21st Centry Skills defined:**
 * 1) __**Critical Thinking and Reasoning:**__ **Critical thinkin and reasoning are vital to advance in the technologicallly sophistaticated world in which we live. In order for students to be successful they need to recognize patterns and relationships, understand and use logic, analyze evidence and draw conclusions, and be inquiry based problem solvers.**
 * 2) __**Invention:**__ **Invention takes students to a higher level of meta cognition. Applying creative new ways to solve problems students must integrate ideas from multiple disciplines to formulate and understanding, of the natural world as they search for patterns and themes, and make connections among ideas, strategies and solutions.**
 * 3) __**Self Direction**__**: Learning requires a productive dispostion, curiousity and self direction. Students must generate their own questions, and design investigations to find the answers; this involves monitoring and assessing their own work.**
 * 4) __**Collaboration**__**: Students will collaborate with each other in multiple settings, offereing ideas, strategies, and solutions for others to evaluate and seeking others' ideas, allowing them to compare and evaluate the merit of different ideas and fostering a safe environmenta for discourse.**
 * 5) __**Information Lieteracy**__**: The 21st Century students accesses information efficiently and effectively with tools and havits of mind to organize and interpret data, understand what constitutes reliable sources of information and clearly communicates thoughts using sound reasoning.**