NGSS Network Explorer

Graphically explore and identify the Next Generation Science Standards and their relationships

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) comprises a set of 845 standards which maintain 1,086 relationships with each other. When displayed as a network, we can make exploring the NGSS flexible and interactive.

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Whereas in the NGSS Performance Expectations (PEs) and Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) have individual identifiers/codes, Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and Crosscutting Concepts (CCs) do not have such identifiers. Of course, if you click them, they will identify themselves with their text. Double-click them and they display their own subnetwork.

Whenever a network involves more than a single grade or grade band, the involved grades are shown as nodes in the network. Here, for instance, we see that Engineering Design standards are distributed over each of the four NGSS grade bands: grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 with no finer grade distribution within the grade bands.

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Analyze data from objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs

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NGSS Visualization Graph

Single-clicking standard nodes highlights them on your screen in a separate space adjacent to the network (not shown here). Double-clicking them makes them generate their own subnetwork. Networks can be shown in different geometries and at different depths.

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