Science and Engineering Practices 1
This SEP is used to represent a complex system (or parts of a system), to aid in the development of questions and explanations, to generate data that can be used to make predictions, and to communicate ideas to others.
What is Using and Developing models?
This SEP asks students to organize and interpret data through tabulating, graphing, or statistical analysis. Such analysis can bring out the meaning of data - and their relevance - so that they may be used as evidence.
What is Analyzing and Interpreting Data?
Repeating cycles, shapes, or spatial features
What are Patterns?
This type of age gives you a numerical value from radioactive isotopes.
What is Absolute Age?
What are natural resources?
In this SEP, students should argue for the explanations they construct, defend their interpretations of the associated data, and advocate for the designs they propose.
What is Engaging in Argument from Evidence?
This SEP can begin in the earliest grades, with students progressing from concrete "pictures" and/or physical scale models to more abstract representations of relevant relationships in later grades.
What is Developing and Using Models?
Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. Correlation doesn't imply causation.
What is cause and effect?
This type of age just tells you if something is older or younger than something else.
What is relative age?
These two things are what AI data centers need to run, but cause major environmental issues.
What is water and energy?
This SEP is the ability to be able to ask questions of each other about the texts they read, the features of the phenomena they observe, and the conclusions they draw from their models or scientific investigations.
What is Asking Questions?
Using algebraic thinking and analysis for statistical analysis to analyze, represent, and model data. Simple computational simulations are created and used based on mathematical models of basic assumptions.
What is Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking?
The understanding of what is relevant at different size, time, and energy scales, and to recognize proportional relationships between different quantities as scales change
What is Scale, Proportion, and Quantity?
This came out of a volcano and caused a global cooling event because sunlight reflected off of it.
What is an ash/dust cloud?
Relating to area or distances
What is spatial?
This SEP uses appropriate and sufficient evidence and scientific reasoning to defend and critique claims and explanations about the natural world. Arguments may also come from current scientific or historical episodes in science.
What is Engaging in Argument from Evidence?
This SEP asks students demonstrate their own understanding of the implications of a scientific idea by developing their own explanations of phenomena, whether based on observations they have made or models they have developed, engages them in an essential part of the process by which conceptual change can occur.
What is Constructing Explanations?
Conditions that affect stability and factors that control rates of change are critical elements to consider and understand in natural systems.
What is Stability and Change?
When 2 or more species influence each others evolution.
What is coevolution?
Referring to time
What is temporal?
This SEP provides evidence for and test conceptual, mathematical, physical, and empirical models. They are used to describe a phenomenon, or to test a theory or model for how the world works.
What is Planning and Carrying Out Investigations?
Evaluating the validity and reliability of the claims and methods. Communicating information, evidence, and ideas in multiple ways: using tables, diagrams, graphs, models, interactive displays, and equations as well as orally, in writing, and through extended discussions.
What is Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information?
The way an object is shaped or structured determines many of its properties and functions.
What is Structure and Function?
This is the oldest time period on the geologic timescale.
The ability for natural systems and human needs to remain in balance indefinitely
What is sustainability?