It’s been awhile since I’ve featured any of the incredible science education resources at Concord Consortium…so let’s remedy that.

The NGSS Assessment Portal is an online platform developed by the Concord Consortium, an educational research and development organization. The primary focus of the website is to provide thoughtfully designed 3 Dimensional Assessment tasks for educators.

On the NGSS Assessment Portal you will find a set of elementary (3-5) assessment tasks plus middle grades (6-8). The tasks are all online (not printable) and teachers can create free accounts to assign tasks, have students engage, and then collect their responses.

These tasks can obviously be used with students but can also be objects of study for professional development, teacher education, or used as exemplars for NGSS curriculum and assessment work.