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Harford County board approves new kindergarten science curriculum for 2025-26
Summary
The Harford County Board of Education approved a rewritten kindergarten science curriculum aligned to Maryland's Next Generation Science Standards and scheduled for implementation in the 2025-26 school year after a month of review and debate over instructional approach and teacher training.
The Harford County Board of Education on April 14 approved a rewritten kindergarten science curriculum the administration says aligns instruction with the state'adopted Next Generation Science Standards and will be implemented in the 2025-26 school year.
Board members were told the curriculum was written in-house by HCPS teachers, is housed on the district learning platform Canvas, and restructures kindergarten science into three content units'ad'adEarth and space, physical science (pushes and pulls) and life and the environment'ad'adwith embedded engineering design challenges and more hands-on inquiry lessons.
The administration and the teachers who led the writing team said the rewrite responded to "evidence statements" tied to the Next Generation Science Standards and to the Maryland environmental literacy expectations. Amy…
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