Read the following link about the Next Generation Science Standards and learn about the three dimensions. https://www.nextgenscience.org/three-dimensions
Science and Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
1. Patterns. Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.
2. Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. A major activity of science is investigating and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. Such mechanisms can then be tested across given contexts and used to predict and explain events in new contexts.
3. Scale, proportion, and quantity. In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance.
4. Systems and system models. Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering.
5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations.
6. Structure and function. The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and its substructure determines many of its properties and functions.
7. Stability and change. For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability, and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Unique to each individual discipline / important across all disciplines.
1.Have broad importance across multiple sciences or engineering disciplines or be a key organizing concept of a single discipline;
2.Provide a key tool for understanding or investigating more complex ideas and solving problems;
3.Relate to the interests and life experiences of students or be connected to societal or personal concerns that require scientific or technological knowledge;
4.Be teachable and learnable over multiple grades at increasing levels of depth and sophistication.
For this course, the Disciplinary Core Ideas come from physical science. They can be found here. https://ngss.nsta.org/DisciplinaryCoreIdeasMid.aspx?id=4
Assignment: PART 1: Pick a dimension that stands out to you as being important and pick a practice, concept, or idea from that dimension. What about that practice concept or idea you think is important to teach. PART 2: I will send a post for you to comment and reflect on separately.
