The science class of the future 26 states expected to adopt Next
Generation Science Standards Years ago, maybe years upon years
ago, you probably sat in a classroom and learned how chemicals
combine to form new substances. You watched your teacher write
on the board, drew a few pictures and completed a worksheet.
Maybe you read the textbook at home and studied images of
electrons being shared and transferred to form chemical bonds.
If you step into a high school chemistry class late next year,
the students might be learning the same thing. But they could be
manipulating foam or paper mache models to show how bonds are
made, or moving electrons around on a computer screen, testing
what happens when a transfer occurs. Science classrooms in
America will begin to change next year, when 26 states are
expected to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards. How
those students learn will often differ from the education their
parents, or even their older siblings, had. Whatever they're
doing, they won't just be readi