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COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? NGSS-Aligned Teacher Companion Guide

COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? NGSS-Aligned Teacher Companion Guide

COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? is a Community Response Guide dedicated to helping young people understand what COVID-19 is and how to take action in their own communities. This response guide was designed to be used either at home with siblings, parents, or caregivers or in schools with teachers. Now more than ever, students need to have the tools and knowledge to protect themselves from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To make this content more accessible and applicable for students, educators, school districts, and state education agencies who have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or similar standards, the Smithsonian Science Education Center has collaborated with the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) to create this NGSS Teacher Companion Guide to COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others?

This NGSS Teacher Companion Guide is intended to be used in tandem with the student-facing Community Response Guide of the COVID-19! guide. It provides additional conversations, activities, and support for educators to easily adapt the content for an NGSS classroom. We hope that this content will support you and your students as you engage with COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others?. We are all committed to a healthier world. And science education—and action—can help us accomplish this goal together.

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