Draft 04-22-2015 Work-in-progress. Do not quote or cite without permission of the authors. Curriculum Materials for Next Generation Science Standards: What the Science Education Research Community Can Do Jo Ellen Roseman, American Association for the Advancement of Science David Fortus, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Joseph Krajcik, Michigan State University Brian J. Reiser (discussant), Northwestern University Symposium Paper Presented at the 2015 NARST Annual International Conference Chicago, IL April 11 – 14, 2015 ABSTRACT Realizing the vision of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (NGSS Lead States, 2013) requires curriculum materials that truly integrate disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts to support three-dimensional learning, in which students use practices to develop and use the science ideas to make sense of phenomena and design solutions to problems. Given the many challenges of developing such materials, it will be years before high-quality materials exist that can help teachers make the NGSS vision a reality in their classrooms. In the meantime, what can the science education research community do to help educators understand what it means for curriculum materials to align to NGSS and respond to its call for three-dimensional learning and teaching. In this paper three curriculum development groups report on preliminary findings from two independent analyses of their materials using selected criteria for alignment to NGSS as articulated in the Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products (EQUiP) Rubric (Achieve, 2014). Each case study (a) presents evidence to justify claims of the material’s alignment to NGSS, (b) describes weaknesses in the material identified in the analyses, and (c) considers how the findings could inform revisions to the material. The paper concludes with some lessons learned from using the EQuIP Rubric so far and suggestions for improving the rubric’s usability and value to the science education research community.