Cross Cutting Concepts
Something that repeats or cycles.
What is a pattern?
Two or more parts working together to make something else.
What is a system?
This SEP typically follows after making observations and inferences.
What is ask questions?
When doing this SEP, you might have to find an average or total, maybe even multiply or divide.
What is using mathematics and computational thinking?
The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.1?
What is forces and motion (aka physics)?
Something that leads to something else.
What is cause and effect?
A drawing or depiction of something to understand it better.
What is a model?
Drawing a diagram of the earth layers to scale would be an example of this SEP.
What is developing and using models?
We use storytelling, narrative, and sense-making skills when doing this SEP.
What is constructing explanations?
The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.2?
What was Earth's processes (aka geology)?
Different amounts of something, like size or time.
What is scale?
These two CCCs relate to what things are made of and how they move and change.
What are energy and matter?
This SEP includes choosing variables, making a hypothesis, and conducting tests.
What is planning and carrying out investigations?
This SEP is what engineers do to solve problems.
What is designing solutions?
The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.3?
What was cells and living systems (aka biology)?
A measured amount of something?
What is quantity?
These 2 CCCs relate to how things are built and what they do?
What are structure and function?
This is more of a testable prediction than an educated guess.
What you write a CER paragraph, you are doing this.
What is engaging in argument from evidence?
The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.4?
What was genes and inheritance (aka genetics)?
An amount compared to another amount, such as part of a whole.
What is proportion?
These 2 CCCs relate to how much things stay the same or not.
What are stability and change?
What is analyze and interpret data?
This SEP is done continuously throughout all science, even when doing all the other SEPs.
What is obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information?
The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.5?
What was adaptation and natural selection (aka evolution)