

Khan Academy's NGSS courses have been designed to support the DCI dimension of the standards. Our newer non-AP courses (as well as our new middle school science courses) are designed as a strategic classroom supplement to support the latest standards: the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).Ī set of research-based, up-to-date K–12 science standards, the NGSS were developed around the principle that there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science: disciplinary core ideas (DCI), practices (application of core ideas to real world contexts), and cross-cutting concepts (like patterns, cause and effect, and structure and function). Some background: our AP courses are aligned to the most recent test specifications, and our biology and physics courses are aligned to NGSS. We're not finished with them quite yet! Over the 2022-2023 school year, we'll be making some updates in response to feedback we've received from our teachers and learners. In Summer 2021, we published five new high school science courses:
