On July 19, 2011, the National Research Council released the report: A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas  that will serve as the basis for new science education standards. The framework offers a new vision for K-12 education in science and engineering that addresses the “mile wide and an inch deep” criticism to the previous set of science standards in three ways. It builds on the notion that learning is a developmental progression from students’ curiosity about what they see around them; it focuses on a limited number of core ideas in science and engineering to allow more time for students to engage in scientific investigations and argumentation and to achieve depth of understanding of the core ideas; and it emphasizes that learning about science and engineering involves integration of the knowledge of scientific explanations (i.e., content knowledge) and the practices needed to engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design. The report recognizes the cornucopia of virtual information available today and the need to prepare students so that they can later acquire additional information on their own. Hence, a primary goal of education is to enable students to evaluate and select reliable sources of scientific information. The NSDL, a national digital library of high quality open resources in STEM education, is a premier source of such reliable scientific information.  NSDL resources address the three major dimensions of the framework and the core ideas within them. For example, resources in the Common Themes science literacy map address Developing and Using Models, one of the eight practices under the Scientific and Engineering Practices, which is one of the three dimensions of the framework.  A simple NSDL search on Patterns, one of the seven concepts under Crosscutting Concepts, the second dimension of the framework, produces over 7,200 resources in several areas of STEM.  Finally, our Collections section and NSDL Pathways portals are ideal sources to address all of the Disciplinary Core ideas in physical sciences; life sciences; earth and space sciences; and engineering, technology, and the applications of science—the last dimension of the framework.