Facts of Life
2021-2022
What is the first year for the NGSS state assessments in 5th grade?
Orange
What is the color for the Discipline Core Ideas?
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
From molecules to organisms; structure and processes are part of which umbrella idea.
What is 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?
Energy is part of this umbrella DCI.
What is Physical Science?
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?
Earth and Human activity is part of this DCI.
What is Earth & Space Science?
Observation of natural occurrence that sparks wonder.
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?
Motion and Stability; forces and interactions are part of this DCI.
What is Physical Science?
These are applied throughout the standards to engage students for deeper understanding, create and design.
What are engineering practices?
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