Facts of Life
State..ments that matter
Science & Engineering Practices
Crosscutting Concepts
100

2021-2022

What is the first year for the NGSS state assessments in 5th grade?

100

Students demonstrate these at the end of a unit.

What are performance indicators?

100

The color of the SEPs.

What is the color blue?

100

These concepts help provide students with an organizational framework for connecting knowledge from the various disciplines into a coherent and scientifically based view of the world.

What are the Cross Cutting Concepts?

200

Names of the umbrella DCIs.

What is Life Science, Earth & Space Science and Physical Science

200

3.LS.3

What is grade 3 Life Science

200

This SEP is formulated when observing the phenomenon.

What is asking questions?

200

The color of the Cross Cutting Concepts.

What is the color green?

300

This current grade will be the first set of students to take the NGSS state assessment in 5th grade.

Who are the current 3rd graders?

300

Blue, Orange, Green

What are the colors for Science & Engineering Practices, Discipline Core Ideas, and Cross Cutting Concepts?

300

This is a CLEAR example of how do I know.

What is engaging in argument from evidence?

300

This CC recognizes events reoccurring events.

What are patterns?

400

Cause and Effect, Patterns, and Structure and Function are examples of these.

What are Crosscutting Concepts

400
Observation of natural occurrence that sparks wonder.

What is the phenomenon?

400

Science is not just a body of knowledge that reflects current understanding of the world; it is also a set of practices used to establish, extend, and refine that knowledge.

What are the Science and Engineering Practices?

400

This CC discusses size and its proportional relationships.

What is known as scale, proportion and quantity?

500

Thought provoking natural world events to get students asking questions.

What is called the phenomenon?

500

This SEP is mean for engineering

What is defining problems?

500

 The 8 Crosscutting Concepts.

What are:

patterns 

cause and effect

scale - proportion - and quantity 

systems and system models

energy and matter

structure and function

stability and change

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