Cross Cutting Concepts
More CCCs
Science and Engineering Practices
More SEPs
Disciplinary Core Ideas
100

Something that repeats or cycles.

What is a pattern?

100

Two or more parts working together to make something else.

What is a system?

100

This SEP typically follows after making observations and inferences.

What is ask questions?

100

When doing this SEP, you might have to find an average or total, maybe even multiply or divide.

What is using mathematics and computational thinking?

100

The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.1?

What is forces and motion (aka physics)?

200

Something that leads to something else.

What is cause and effect?

200

A drawing or depiction of something to understand it better.

What is a model?

200

Drawing a diagram of the earth layers to scale would be an example of this SEP.

What is developing and using models?

200

We use storytelling, narrative, and sense-making skills when doing this SEP.

What is constructing explanations?

200

The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.2?

What was Earth's processes (aka geology)?

300

Different amounts of something, like size or time.

What is scale?

300

These two CCCs relate to what things are made of and how they move and change.

What are energy and matter?

300

This SEP includes choosing variables, making a hypothesis, and conducting tests.

What is planning and carrying out investigations?

300

This SEP is what engineers do to solve problems.

What is designing solutions?

300

The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.3?

What was cells and living systems (aka biology)?

400

A measured amount of something?

What is quantity?

400

These 2 CCCs relate to how things are built and what they do?

What are structure and function?

400

This is more of a testable prediction than an educated guess.

What is a hypothesis?
400

What you write a CER paragraph, you are doing this.

What is engaging in argument from evidence?

400

The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.4?

What was genes and inheritance (aka genetics)?

500

An amount compared to another amount, such as part of a whole.

What is proportion?

500

These 2 CCCs relate to how much things stay the same or not.

What are stability and change?

500
This SEP might include graphing your information and telling what it means.

What is analyze and interpret data?

500

This SEP is done continuously throughout all science, even when doing all the other SEPs.

What is obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information?

500

The big idea in Utah SEEd Standard 7.5?

What was adaptation and natural selection (aka evolution)