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NGSS Crosscutting Concepts Collection

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A collection of resources for teachers, professors, pre-service teachers about the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts.

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Resources in “NGSS Crosscutting Concepts” Collection

Title Resource Type
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Structure and Function, June 6, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Explanation, March 5, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Energy and Matter—Flows, Cycles, and Conservation, April 30, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns, February 19, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity, March 19, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Stability and Change, May 28, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Archive: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models, June 11, 2013 Web Seminar Archive
Crosscutting Concepts from NGSS Hub at NSTA

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

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Discover the NGSS Interactive E-book
Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS: A Professional Development Facilitator's Guide NSTA Press Book
Introducing the NGSS Book Chapter
NSTA Virtual Conference Archive: Exploring Three-Dimensional Instruction, February 11, 2017 Virtual Workshop Archive
Podcast: NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Sample Activities for Elementary, Middle School, and High School Podcast
Teacher to Teacher: Assessing Crosscutting Concepts Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: Using Rubrics to Integrate Crosscutting Concepts Journal Article
The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, K-12 NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Reader’s Guide to A Framework for K–12 Science Education, EXPANDED EDITION: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (e-book) e-book
The Second Dimension—Crosscutting Concepts Journal Article
The Second Dimension—Crosscutting Concepts: Understanding A Framework for K–12 Science Education Journal Article
Unit Planning Using the Crosscutting Concepts Journal Article