State education staffers then gathered groups of science teachers and over 3,000 public comments about how to translate those goals into lessons. On Thursday, the state education board approved a science “curriculum framework” that came out of that field research. “In the old days, students were in the back, teachers sat in the front,” said Bryan Boyd, a former science teacher who consults on science programming for the state education department. They can maintain the separation of scientific disciplines or use an “integrated model” in which students learn about ideas from multiple disciplines at once. In eighth grade, students would explore the universe, resource consumption, evolution, forces, energy and gravity.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 04, 2016 00:57 UTC