These three activities are essential to the Science and Engineering Practices of NGSS students:

1. Ask questions to learn
2. Create scientific explanations for understanding
3. Create models to represent these ideas

In order to enhance the NGSS practices in the classroom, this workshop will help K-8 grade educators (as explained on the website):

• “facilitate an approach to deliberately teach the skill of asking questions about observations, data, informational text, misconceptions and the ideas of others (including classmates)
• actualize a strategy through which students will effectively make claims, support their claims with evidence, construct explanations and engage in argumentation
• recognize how and why students should develop, evaluate, and revise their own models to optimize learning  in science and engineering”