Facts of Life
It's the Core Ideas
State..ments that matter
Science & Engineering Practices
Crosscutting Concepts
100

Orange

What is the color for the Discipline Core Ideas?

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

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

Energy is part of this umbrella DCI.

What is Physical Science?

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?

500

Thought provoking natural world events to get students asking questions.

What is called the phenomenon?

500

These are applied throughout the standards to engage students for deeper understanding, create and design.

What are engineering practices?

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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