Interactive Network Visualization of Educational Standards, Learning Resources and Learning Progressions

We present a novel, network- and browser-based visualization of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The NGSS are meant to guide (USA) K-12 science and engineering learning and are almost always presented using text and tables. Understanding, explaining and navigating the NGSS through tables and text, however, is difficult. In this paper we present a different approach, namely one that capitalizes on the explicit network structure of the NGSS. By rendering the NGSS and its parts as interactive, visual networks, the NGSS becomes much easier to comprehend and navigate. In addition, whereas representing the NGSS with tables and texts hides patterns and anomalies, network visualization makes them prominently stand out.