SEPs
SEPs is an acronym for this.
What are Science and Engineering Practices?
DCI is an acronym for this.
What are Disciplinary Core Ideas?
Students observe _________ of forms and events that guide organization and classification, and they prompted questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.
What are patterns?
STEELS has this additional domain that NGSS doesn't pull out separately.
What is environmental literacy and sustainability?
These standards use these colors.
What are blue for SEPs, orange for DCIs and green for CCCs?
The number of SEPs there are.
What are there 8 of?
The first disciplinary core domain is this.
This CCC involves discovering the underlying cause of phenomena, understanding connections and causation, and finding out why one event might lead to another.
STEELS uses this color as one of the 3d colors that NGSS doesn't.
What is maroon?
NGSS- SEP blue, DCI orange, CCC green
STEELS- SEP green, DCI blue, CCC maroon
NGSS shifted the teacher's role from giver of knowledge to this role.
What is the role of facilitator?
The first SEP.
What is asking questions and defining problems?
The second disciplinary core domain of STEELS is this.
What is Physical Science?
This CCC involves comparing using relative scales (e.g., bigger and smaller, faster and slower) and describing them using units of, for example, weight, time, temperature, and volume.
What is scale, proportion, and quantity?
Instead of a standard, we are now using these to include 3 dimensions.
What are performance expectations?
In NGSS, teachers refrain from giving information and rather guide the work so that students are doing this.
What is sensemaking?
The last SEP.
What is obtaining, evaluating and communicating information?
The third disciplinary core domain of STEELS is this.
What is Earth and Space Science?
To make the world easier to investigate, scientists often study smaller units of investigations, or this CCC.
What are systems and system models?
These two components were added to "standards" to make them performance expectations.
What are SEPs and CCCs?
In NGSS, one way to facilitate 3D learning is to begin with this.
What is a phenomenon?
These two SEPs are specifically for engineering.
What is 1. Defining Problems and 6. Designing Solutions?
The fourth and fifth disciplinary core domains of STEELS are these.
What is 4. Environmental Literacy and 5. Sustainability and Technology and Engineering?
This CCC emphasizes that energy and matter flows in and out of any system—for example, the sunlight (energy) and water (matter) that a plant needs to grow, or the flow of water in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation?
STEELS standards were modeled after these standards which were released in 2012 from the report A Framework for Science Education.
What are NGSS?
Rather than giving answers, teachers facilitate the sense-making of students by replying with these.
What are questions?