Westfield Science Wiki

Welcome to the Westfield Science Wiki
The purpose of this wiki is to foster collaboration as we align the Westfield Science Curriculum to the MA State Frameworks as well as the emerging Common Core standards for Language Arts & Literacy and Math, while keeping an eye towards the coming Next Generation Science Standards.

The New Middle School Science Curriculum follows a spiraling model in which each grade 6-8 is responsible for teaching each state standard but to varying degrees. The three main branches of science in the middle school level are Earth and Space Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. There are four categories that each standard can be taught to: Introduction, Building, Mastery, Review.

As we build the wiki, we will be looking to fill in the following information:

1. Vocabulary

2. Minimum coverage

3. Maximum coverage

4. Shared lessons/plans/activities

5. Available physical resources

6. Available digital resources

7. Unit benchmarks

8. Connections to Common Core

What's Happening Now?
7/11/2012

The wiki has just been set up and and the first few pages are being built. Hopefully things will be fairly put together in a couple of weeks so that evryone can start to contribute.