Science is a crucial part of our children’s education. As a part of improving that education Utah is looking for a new standard and hopes for input from the Uintah Basin as well as from anyone else. In December of 2015, the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) adopted the standards of the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) for grades 6-8. USBE received a Science Standards Review Committee Report in April of 2018 suggesting that updates were needed to science standards and that writing teams should be organized for K-5 and High School to facilitate that. Those writing teams were created with Utah University professors and Utah K-12 science teachers, even some from the Uintah Basin, and worked from May 2018 to November 2018. This draft is now available for public viewing and feedback is encourage. To access the document go to the twitter feed of UT Public Education twitter. The link to the survey is also there. Feedback will be closed
on April 11, 2019
and then a final draft of the science standard will be presented to USBE for adoption.
