Connecting with Next Generation Science Standards
Jumbo Minds’ books help teach science and so, naturally, we want to help teachers! One way we’re helping is to map the vocabulary and concepts in our books to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
About the Standards: The NGSS, released in 2013, were created by 40 experts from 26 states. NGSS were designed to update the 15 year old science standards based on current research and science understanding. The foundation for NGSS was the Framework for K-12 Science Education, which presents each standard with three dimensions. These three facets include:
- scientific behaviors (Practices)
- ideas that connect regions of science (Crosscutting Concepts)
- deeper instruction and assessments (Disciplinary Core Ideas)
The science practices taught in NGSS contain skills that scientists and engineers use on a daily basis. By utilizing these three practices for each standard, scientific habits will be formed which will better prepare our children for a world filled with innovations and technology.
It’s easy to utilize Jumbo Minds’ books to support NGSS! The NGSS are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. The words in Jumbo Minds’ books support the NGSS concepts, and can be used to introduce the language of science, which encourages the development of the scientific habits demonstrated in the standards.
The tables below are designed to easily connect our books to NGSS and encourage teaching science to our children. Keep checking this page, as we’ll continue to refine these tables.
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Science ABCs - Book-Based Matrix - Biology
| Matrix of Jumbo Minds’ Science ABCs books and NGSS: Arranged by Book and Grade
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. Jumbo Minds’ books support the standards by introducing the language of science and concepts to children with the goal of assisting the children to develop deeper cognition and application of the words throughout their lives. Please use this table as a tool during your planning. This table will grow with activities and resources. Check back often! |
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| Jumbo Minds’ ABCs of Biology | |||
| Grade | NGSS Standard | Location in ABCs of Biology | Topic |
| K | K-LS1-1 | Germination, Habitat, Organism, Photosynthesis, Respiration, Activities 1 and 2 | From Molecules to Organisms |
| K-ESS3-1 | Extinct, Food Chain, Germination, Habitat, Photosynthesis, Respiration, Activities 1 and 2 | Earth and Human Activity | |
| 1 | 1-LS1-1 | Quail | From Molecules to Organisms |
| 1-LS1-2 | DNA, Mammals, Nocturnal | ||
| 1-LS3-1 | DNA, Cell, Activity 3 | Heredity | |
| 2 | 2-LS2-1 | Germination, Photosynthesis, Activity 1 | Ecosystems |
| 2-LS4-1 | Habitat, DNA | Biological Evolution | |
| 3 | 3-LS1-1 | Life Cycle, Juvenile, Cell, Organism | From Molecules to Organisms |
| 3-LS3-1 | DNA, Cell, Activity 3 | Heredity | |
| 3-LS4-2 | Quail | Biological Evolution | |
| 3-LS4-3 | Habitat, Activity 5 | ||
| 4 | 4-LS1-1 | Abdomen, Cell, DNA, Skeleton | Molecules to Organisms |
| 5 | 5-LS1-1 | Germination, Photosynthesis, Activity 1 | Molecules to Organisms |
| 5-LS2-1 | Organism, Food Chain, Bacteria | Ecosystems | |
| 5-ESS2-1 | Activity 4 | Earth’s Systems | |
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Science ABCs - Book-Based Matrix - Chemistry
| Matrix of Jumbo Minds’ Science ABCs books and NGSS: Arranged by Book and Grade
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. Jumbo Minds’ books support the standards by introducing the language of science and concepts to children with the goal of assisting the children to develop deeper cognition and application of the words throughout their lives.
Please use this table as a tool during your planning. This table will grow with activities and resources. Check back often! |
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| Grade | NGSS Standard | Location in ABCs of Chemistry | Topic |
| K | K-ESS2-1 | Temperature | Earth’s Systems |
| 1 | 1-PS4-1 | Wave | Waves |
| 2 | 2-ESS2-3 | Solid, Liquid | Earth’s Place |
| 2-PS1-1 | Activity 1 | Matter and Its Interactions | |
| 2-PS1-4 | Heat | Matter | |
| 3 | 3-ESS2-1 | Temperature | Earth’s Systems |
| 3-ESS2-2 | Temperature | ||
| 4 | 4-PS3-2 | Heat, Temperature, Wave, X-ray | Energy |
| 4-PS4-1 | Wave, X-ray | ||
| 5 | 5-PS1-1 | Atom, Crystal, Mass, Reaction, Activities 3 and 5 | Matter and Its Interactions |
| 5-PS1-2 | Reaction, Heat, Liquid, Solid, Vapor | ||
| 5-PS1-4 | Reaction, Activity 2 | ||
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Science ABCs - Book-Based Matrix - Earth Science
| Matrix of Jumbo Minds’ Science ABCs books and NGSS: Arranged by Book and Grade
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. Jumbo Minds’ books support the standards by introducing the language of science and concepts to children with the goal of assisting the children to develop deeper cognition and application of the words throughout their lives. Please use this table as a tool during your planning. This table will grow with activities and resources. Check back often! |
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| Grade | NGSS Standard | Location in ABCs of Earth Science | Topic |
| K | K-ESS2-1 | Lightning, Nimbus, Precipitation | Earth’s Systems |
| K-ESS3-1 | Activity 1 | Earth and Human Activity | |
| K-ESS3-2 | Nimbus, Hurricane, Tornado, Precipitation, Lightning | ||
| K-PS3-1 | Evaporation, Desert, Biome | Energy | |
| 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2 | 2-ESS1-1 | Fault, Glacier, Kettle, Mineral, Rock, Soil, Volcano, Activities 4 and 5 | Earth’s Place |
| 2-ESS2-1 | Jet Stream, Hurricane, Tornado, Wetlands | ||
| 2-ESS2-2 | Wetlands | ||
| 2-LS4-1 | Biome, Desert, Wetlands | Biological Evolution | |
| 3 | 3-ESS2-1 | Hurricane, Nimbus, Precipitation, Tornado | Earth’s Systems |
| 3-ESS2-2 | Hurricane, Nimbus, Precipitation, Tornado | ||
| 3-ESS3-1 | Hurricane, Lightning, Nimbus, Precipitation, Tornado | Earth and Human Activity | |
| 3-LS4-3 | Biome, Desert, Wetlands | Biological Evolution | |
| 4 | 4-ESS2-1 | Rock, Soil, Glacier, Kettle, Precipitation, Young Ice, Activity 3 | Earth’s Systems |
| 4-ESS2-2 | Fault, Volcano, Rock | ||
| 4-ESS3-2 | Hurricane, Tornado, Fault, Volcano | Earth and Human Activity | |
| 5 | 5-ESS2-1 | Inner Core, Outer Core, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Biome, Jet Stream, Rock, Soil, Activity 2 | Earth’s Systems |
| 5-ESS2-2 | Glacier, Wetlands | ||
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Science ABCs - Book-Based Matrix - Physics
| Matrix of Jumbo Minds’ Science ABCs books and NGSS: Arranged by Book and Grade
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. Jumbo Minds’ books support the standards by introducing the language of science and concepts to children with the goal of assisting the children to develop deeper cognition and application of the words throughout their lives.
Please use this table as a tool during your planning. This table will grow with activities and resources. Check back often! |
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| Grade | NGSS Standard | Location in ABCs of Physics | Topic |
| K | K-PS2-1 | Buoyancy, Newton’s Laws of Motion | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions |
| K-PS2-2 | Buoyancy, Newton’s Laws of Motion | ||
| K-PS3-1 | Light | Energy | |
| 1 | 1-PS4-1 | Decibel, Vibration, Trough | Waves |
| 1-PS4-2 | Light, Reflection | ||
| 1-PS4-3 | Light, Reflection, Optics, Activity 4 | ||
| 1-PS4-4 | Light-Year | ||
| 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 3 | 3-PS2-1 | Buoyancy, Centripetal Force, Friction, Gravity, Jet Propulsion, Newton’s Laws of Motion | Motion and Stability |
| 3-PS2-2 | Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Vibration | ||
| 3-PS2-3 | Magnet | ||
| 3-PS2-4 | Magnet | ||
| 4 | 4-PS3-1 | Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Speed, Activity 1 | Energy |
| 4-PS3-2 | Light, Potential Energy, Reflection, Vibration | ||
| 4-PS3-3 | Acceleration, Newton’s Laws of Motion | ||
| 4-PS3-4 | Heat, Light, Vibration | ||
| 4-PS4-1 | Light, Trough | Waves | |
| 4-PS4-2 | Light, Reflection | ||
| 5 | 5-ESS1-1 | Light, Light-Year | Earth’s Place |
| 5-PS2-1 | Gravity, Activity 3 | Motion and Stability | |
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Poetic Science of Water - Book-Based Matrix
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are written to promote scientific learning, investigation, and patterns of thinking. Jumbo Minds’ books support the standards by introducing the language of science and concepts to children with the goal of assisting the children to develop deeper cognition and application of the words throughout their lives.
Please use this table as a tool during your planning. This table will grow with activities and resources. Check back often!
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K |
K-PS3-1 |
Energy |
5 – 9 |
cloud, condense, evaporate, precipitation, water vapor, water cycle |
Water Cycle Activity |
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K-LS1-1 |
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes |
26 – 30 |
planet, mammals, fish, bacteria, fungi, reptiles, plant kingdom, cells, conserve |
Conserve Water |
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K-ESS2-1 |
Earth’s Systems |
5 – 9 |
cloud, condense, evaporate, precipitation, water vapor, water cycle |
Water Cycle Activity |
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K-ESS3-1 |
Earth and Human Activity |
26 – 30 |
planet, mammals, fish, bacteria, fungi, reptiles, plant kingdom, cells, conserve |
Surface Tension |
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K-ESS3-3 |
Earth and Human Activity |
26 – 30 |
planet, mammals, fish, bacteria, fungi, reptiles, plant kingdom, cells, conserve |
Conserve Water, Surface Tension |
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2 |
2-ESS2-1 |
Earth’s Systems |
7 |
Precipitation, erode, collects, watershed |
Conserve Water |
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2-ESS2-2 |
Earth’s Systems |
4 |
salt water, freshwater |
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2-ESS2-3 |
Earth’s Systems |
4 – 14 |
Salt water, freshwater, liquid, evaporate, water vapor, condense, cloud, precipitation, water cycle, temperature, states of matter, solid, gas, atoms, molecules, crystals, heat |
Water Cycle, States of Matter |
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4 |
4-PS3-1 |
Energy |
8 – 15 |
water cycle, temperature, states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, atoms, molecules, crystals, heat |
States of Matter |
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4-PS3-2 |
Energy |
8 – 15 |
water cycle, temperature, states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, atoms, molecules, crystals, heat |
Water Cycle |
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4-ESS2-1 |
Earth’s Systems |
3 – 15 |
Terrain, salt water, freshwater, evaporate, atmosphere, water vapor, condense, cloud, precipitation, erode, collect, watershed, water cycle, temperature, states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, crystals, heat |
Conserve Water |
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5 |
5-PS1-1 |
Matter and Its Interactions |
10 – 25 |
States of matter, solid, liquid, gas, atoms, molecules, crystals, heat, microscope, elements, hydrogen, oxygen, bond, charges, partial charge, polar molecule, matter, dissolve, universal solvent, hydrogen bonds, surface tension |
States of Matter, Dissolve with Polar and Nonpolar Solvents |
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5-ESS2-1 |
Earth’s Systems |
4 – 9 |
Salt water, freshwater, evaporate, atmosphere, water vapor, water cycle, condense, cloud, precipitation, collects, watershed, temperature |
Water Cycle |
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5-ESS3-1 |
Earth and Human Activity |
28 – 30 |
Cells, conserve |
Conserve Water |
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Standard-Based Matrix
(coming soon)