Facts of Life
2021-2022
What is the first year for the NGSS state assessments in 5th grade?
Students demonstrate these at the end of a unit.
What are performance indicators?
The color of the SEPs.
What is the color blue?
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?
Names of the umbrella DCIs.
What is Life Science, Earth & Space Science and Physical Science
3.LS.3
What is grade 3 Life Science
This SEP is formulated when observing the phenomenon.
What is asking questions?
The color of the Cross Cutting Concepts.
What is the color green?
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?
Blue, Orange, Green
What are the colors for Science & Engineering Practices, Discipline Core Ideas, and Cross Cutting Concepts?
This is a CLEAR example of how do I know.
What is engaging in argument from evidence?
This CC recognizes events reoccurring events.
What are patterns?
Cause and Effect, Patterns, and Structure and Function are examples of these.
What are Crosscutting Concepts
What is the phenomenon?
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?
This CC discusses size and its proportional relationships.
What is known as scale, proportion and quantity?
Thought provoking natural world events to get students asking questions.
What is called the phenomenon?
This SEP is mean for engineering
What is defining problems?
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