CCC-SEP

Disciplinary Core Ideas

"What students know"Key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines

Croscutting Concepts

"How Students Think"Ideas that consistently appear across many STEM subjects that are crucial to build content knowledge.

Science and Engineering Practices

"What students do"SEPs describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems

New science standards in PA require that we make some big shifts in science practices. These standards are based in the word of the National Research Council (NRC) found within "A Framework for K-12 Science Education"

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Science & Engineering Practices: describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by “inquiry” in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.

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Science and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Engaging in Argument from Evidence

Constructing Explanations and Designing Soltions

Use Mathematics and Computational Thinking

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Developing and Using Models

Asking Questions and Defining Questions

CCC Matrix

CCC Prompts

Crosscutting concepts have application across all domains of science. As such, they are a way of linking the different domains of science. They include patterns; cause and effect; scale, proportion, and quantity; systems and system models; energy and matter; structure and function; and stability and change. The Framework emphasizes that these concepts need to be made explicit for students because they provide an organizational schema for interrelating knowledge from various science fields into a coherent and scientifically based view of the world.

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crosscuttng concepts

Stability and Change

Structure and Function

Energy and Matter

Systems and System Models

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Cause and Effect

Patterns