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This Ed Week article lists capacity issues (teacher education, professional development, assessment development, availability of materials) in taking up the NGSS

This piece argues that the NGSS has focused on diversity and inclusion, and talks about science as the great equalizer. Perhaps of interest as discussion point in teams.

this is a resource that annotates science research for students and offers other activities (such as the opportunity to play with data from scientists' papers). THis might be a great resource for Intersections teams

""Coupling practice with content gives the learning context, whereas practices alone are activities, and content alone is memorization," an executive summary of the standards says. "The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.""

This physics teacher gives a lecture from inside CERN's Hadron Collider wearing Google Glass. How cool is that? What would his students write about?!?

A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth is just what it sounds like, directions for starting a maker program. It may have ideas that will be helpful to teams as they design their science-literacy projects.

Saving TED talk here as well. Discusses science/engineering as an act of translation, discusses making connections between biological record and human anecdote, and involves fashion, too.