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Acronyms
5E's
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

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

What is a performance expectation?

100

PE

What is Performance Expectation?

100

This is how you "hook" the students.

What is "ENGAGE?"

200

The three dimensions of NGSS used to form the performance expectations

What are DCI's , Cross Cutting Concepts, and Science and Engineering Practices?

200

using a diagram to represent the relationship among components in a system

What is a Science and Engineering Practice?

200

Using data as evidence to support a claim

What is the science and engineering practice, Arguing from Evidence?

200

DCI

What is Disciplinary Core Idea?

200
This is where students conduct and design investigations.
What is EXPLORE?
300

Statements that describe and characterize the scientific discipline as a way of knowing.

What are the nature of science understandings?

300

Scientific knowledge is based on empirical evidence.  

What is a nature of science understanding?

300

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

What is a DCI?

300

SEP

What is Science and Engineering Practice?

300

Students may explore further questions by applying what they learned.

What is ELABORATE?

400

A statement that supplies examples to the performance expectation.

What is a clarifying statement?

400

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

What is a Science and Engineering Practice?

400

Scientific knowledge is based on empirical evidence.                     

                                                               

                                                       


What is a nature of science (NOS) understanding?

400

MS-ESS

What is Middle School Earth and Space Science?

400

Students share ideas and teacher facilitates discussion of scientific concepts.

What is EXPLAIN?

500

The place where other dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards or Common Core State Standards that are related to a particular standard are found

What is a connection box?

500

Earth and Human Activity

What is a Disciplinary Core Idea

500

an object's molecular make-up affects its observable properties 

What is the crosscutting concept, structure and function

500

5 LS2

What is the performance expectation for grade 5, life science #2?

500
Students assess their own knowledge and skills and the teacher evaluates student progress to guide their instruction.
What is EVALUATE?