Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) represents a radical refocus of how science is taught at the high-school level. Inherent in the new standards is moving away from a segmented view of science, physics is separate from chemistry is separate from biology, to an interdisciplinary approach that mimics the interdisciplinary nature of how science is currently done. This change has left many science teachers without direction in how to approach the standards. I propose that a technique centered approach rather then a subject centered one, much better addresses the requirements of the new standards. As a physics technique that is used to understand chemical structure which in turn is used to better understand how that structure interacts with other components in a biological system X-ray crystallography is uniquely qualified to bridge the ideas represented in the NGSS.

X-ray crystallography and NGSS: A bridge across categories

248th National Meeting (2014)

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