Scale as a Cross Cutting Concept in the Next Generation Science Standards
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Description
NGSS is based on A Framework for K–12 Science Education developed by the National Research Council in 2011. The Framework combines three important dimensions: core disciplinary ideas, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. This web seminar is one in a series of seven that explore the crosscutting concepts to provide K-12 teachers with strategies for implementing NGSS in the classroom.
The seven Crosscutting Concepts include:
1. Patterns
2. Cause and Effect—Mechanism and Explanation
3. Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
4. Systems and System Models
5. Energy and Matter—Flows, Cycles, and Conservation
6. Structure and Function
7. Stability and Change
Participants might also be interested in a series of web seminars held previously on the Scientific and Engineering Practices. The archived programs are available for viewing here.
This web seminar focuses on the crosscutting concept of 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.
