title: Integrating the Dimensions of NGSS within a Collaborative Board Game about Honey Bees.
abstract: The current reform in U.S. science education calls for the integration of three dimensions of science learning in classroom teaching and learning: Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. While the Next Generation Science Standards provide flexibility in how curriculum and instruction are structured to meet learning goals, there are few examples of existing curricula that portray the integration of these dimensions as "three-dimensional learning." Here, we describe a collaborative board game about honey bees that incorporates scientific evidence on how genetic and environmental factors influence variations of traits and social behavior and requires students to collaboratively examine and use a system model. Furthermore, we show how students used and evaluated the game as a model in authentic classroom settings.
authors.affiliation: College of Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (UIUC).
authors.forename: Hillary
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lauren
authors.affiliation: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at UIUC.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lutz
authors.affiliation: Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at UIUC.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Wallon
authors.affiliation: Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at UIUC and the Principal Investigator of Project NEURON and Impact on Science Education.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hug
keywords: NGSS; game-based learning; honey bees; modeling; three-dimensional learning