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Here you will find resources to assist you in understanding and implementing the NGSS.
Here you will find resources to assist you in understanding and implementing the NGSS.
3-Dimensional Learning
Each performance expectation will incorporate a core idea practices, and cross cutting concepts.
The disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) are what scientists and engineers need to know.
The Science and Engineering Practices are what scientists and engineers do.
The Cross Cutting Concept are how scientists and engineers think.
READ MORE ABOUT 3-D LEARNING MODEL HERE.
The disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) are what scientists and engineers need to know.
The Science and Engineering Practices are what scientists and engineers do.
The Cross Cutting Concept are how scientists and engineers think.
READ MORE ABOUT 3-D LEARNING MODEL HERE.
**Bozeman Science: A short explanation video for any NGSS component
Science and Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Click here to view Appendix F for grade level specific examples of what each practice looks like.
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Click here to view Appendix F for grade level specific examples of what each practice looks like.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Disciplinary ideas are grouped in four domains: the physical sciences; the life sciences; the earth and space sciences; and engineering, technology and applications of science.
Life Science
LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Physical Science
PS1: Matter and Its Interactions
PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
PS3: Energy
PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
Earth and Space Science
ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe
ESS2: Earth’s Systems
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science
ETS1: Engineering Design
Click here to view Appendix E and to clearly see the progression of the core ideas and increasing sophistication of student thinking across grade level bands.
Cross Cutting Concepts
1. Patterns: Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.
2. Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. A major activity of science is investigating and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. Such mechanisms can then be tested across given contexts and used to predict and explain events in new contexts.
3. Scale, proportion, and quantity: In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance.
4. Systems and system models: Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering.
5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations.
6. Structure and function: The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and its substructure determine many of its properties and functions.
7. Stability and change: For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study.
Click here to view Appendix G for detailed explanations of each and grade level specific examples of how the concepts build across the grade levels.
Below are downloadable posters that you may use as reference or for the wall.
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