A Proposal Conception for a Biology Curriculum in Agricultural Secondary Education in Light of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

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Faculty of Graduate Studies of Education

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The aim of the current research is to create a proposed concept for the biological curriculum for the first grade of agricultural secondary school in light of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The research used the analytical descriptive approach by analyzing the content of the biological curriculum for the first grade of the agricultural secondary in order to determine the level of inclusion of Science Standards for The Next Generation NGSS Its three dimensions are the Disciplinary Core ideas (DCIs), Scientific and Engineering Practices (SEPs), and the Crosscutting concepts (CCCs).
The results of the research found that the Disciplinary Core ideas (DCIs) occupied the first place with a repeat rate (56%), and this percentage reflects the level of inclusion of the average dimension of the Scientific and Engineering Practices (SEPs) with a repeat rate (25%), which reflects a low level, while the last came after the Crosscutting concepts (CCCs) with a repeat rate (19%), very low embedding level. A proposed concept for a biological curriculum for the first grade of agricultural secondary school was developed in light of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The research also found that the topic "from molecules to organisms" was addressed more, followed by Genetics and biological diversity, and then came the topic of ecosystems, while issues related to biological evolution were neglected

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