Ellis Elementary has changed their curriculum in preparation for the statewide changes to the science program next school year. Principal Sue Sorenson said that she expects the new core to follow the Next Generation Science Standards, which has been adopted by 26 states.
“We’re trying to use the core we currently have, that the teachers know really well, and trying to incorporate that deeper questioning side to what we already know,” Sorenson said. “So when the new core comes in it won’t be such an adjustment for us. We’re trying to think ahead.”
Sorenson said they might have asked surface questions like, what color the sky is. With the changes, students are encouraged to use high order thinking to answer thought provoking questions.
“My question to them was, ‘I was diagnosed and my doctor said that I could not eat things that had fungi properties. What couldn’t I eat?’” Sorenson said. “So that would be that deeper thinking that they have to go through and think, ‘Well what is it that she couldn’t have?’”
Susanne Kuresa, the human resource services director of Logan City School District said it was smart for Ellis to prepare for the changes.
“Anytime there is a change in curriculum, it is not an overnight implementation or response for that change,” Kuresa said. “Anticipating that, doing some preliminary work and being ahead of that is certainly going to be to their benefit.”
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