<div>A few resources showing the "wave of the future" for science education in the United States that folks interested in plant conservation, youth engagement, and our botanical capacity to address grand environmental challenges of the 21st Century (see BGCIs 2009s: Assessing botanical capacity to address; <a href="http://www.bgci.org/usa/bcap">http://www.bgci.org/usa/bcap</a>), , particularly Recommendation #5 (see: <a href="http://www.bgci.org/files/UnitedStates/BCAP/BCAP_recommendations.pdf">http://www.bgci.org/files/UnitedStates/BCAP/BCAP_recommendations.pdf</a>) may find useful. </div>
<div><br></div><div>A Framework for K-12 Science Education</div><div>by The National Academies of Science</div><div>2012</div><div><a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165">http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165</a></div>
<div>**If you click on the Table of Contents, you can see a few excerpts from the report.**</div><div><br></div><div>MORE ABOUT THE FRAMEWORK: <a href="http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/bose/framework_k12_science/index.htm">http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/bose/framework_k12_science/index.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>+++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>SEVERAL GROUPS ARE WORKING TO "TRANSLATE" THE CONCEPTS FOR IMPMENTATION: </div><div><br></div><div><div>The NSTA Reader’s Guide to A Framework for K–12 Science Education</div>
</div><div>by Harold Pratt</div><div>2012</div><div><a href="http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/CSUNGSScommunity/ed_framework/documents/pdf.pdf">http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/CSUNGSScommunity/ed_framework/documents/pdf.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>+++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div><div>The Next Generation Science Standards, for States by States</div><div>by The National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve have completed 
a two-step process to develop the Next Generation Science Standards</div><div>June 2013</div><div>**<span style="background-color:rgb(242,242,243);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px">Twenty-six states and their broad-based teams worked together with a 41-member 
writing team and partners throughout the country to develop the 
standards.**</span></div><div><a href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards">http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>FOR INSTANCE, HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT "INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS IN ECOSYSTEMS: ANIMALS, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PLANTS, AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT:"</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/kire-interdependent-relationships-ecosystems-animals-plants-environment">http://www.nextgenscience.org/kire-interdependent-relationships-ecosystems-animals-plants-environment</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>+++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>Crosswalk between the Framework for K–12 Science Education and Standards for the 21st-Century Learner: School Librarians as the Crucial Link</div><div>by Subramanian et al. </div>
<div>April 2013</div><div><a href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol16/SLR_CrosswalkbetweenFrameworkStandards_V16.pdf">http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol16/SLR_CrosswalkbetweenFrameworkStandards_V16.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div>Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</div><div>Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service-International Affairs</div><div>Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance</div>
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