Inside the Box
DCI, CCC, or SEP?
Important Vocabulary
Acronyms
100
A statement that combines practices, core ideas, and crosscutting concepts together to describe how students can show what they have learned
What is a Performance Expectation?
100
Cause and Effect
What is a cross cutting concept?
100
This is an event that causes students to think, wonder, and ponder.
What is a phenomenon?
100
PE
What is Performance Expectation?
200
The three dimensions of NYSSLS used to form the performance expectations
What are DCI's , Cross Cutting Concepts, and Science and Engineering Practices?
200
Forces and Motion
What is a Disciplinary Core Idea?
200
These are statements that connect different domains of science.
What are Cross Cutting Concepts?
200
DCI
What is Disciplinary Core Idea?
300
This is what is inside the Connections Box

Other standards in the Next Generation Science Standards or in the Common Core State Standards that are related to a particular standard are found

300
Stability and Change
What is a cross cutting concept?
300
These are chunks of science content knowledge that students may use to explain the world around them.
What are Disciplinary Core Ideas?
300
SEP
What is Science and Engineering Practice?
400
A statement that supplies examples to the performance expectation.
What is a clarifying statement?
400
Analyzing and interpreting Data
What is Science and Engineering Practice?
400
These are the ways that scientists (and students) find out about the world.
What are the Science and Engineering Practices?
400
MS-ESS
What is Middle School Earth and Space Science?
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