Common Core and NGSS are meant to be integrated, and the literacy standards are a good place to start! While working through concepts of energy, workshop participants built a science notebook and, in the process, incorporate Reading and Writing Informational Text Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
About Denise Soderlund
Denise Soderlund has taught K-8 for Central School District in Rancho Cucamonga for the past 29 years, including 8th grade science and math. She has served as a National FOSS Science consultant since 1992 and was one of the curriculum writers for FOSS 2nd Edition and Middle School at the Lawrence Hall Of Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
Denise Soderlund has taught K-8 for Central School District in Rancho Cucamonga for the past 29 years, including 8th grade science and math. She has served as a National FOSS Science consultant since 1992 and was one of the curriculum writers for FOSS 2nd Edition and Middle School at the Lawrence Hall Of Science at the University of California at Berkeley.