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Making Connections to Common Core
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Making Connections to Common Core Evidence-based reasoning is the foundation of good scientific practice. The Next Generation Science Standards incorporate reasoning skills used in language arts and mathematics to help students improve mastery and understanding in all three disciplines. The Next Generation Science…
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Disciplinary Core Ideas: Reshaping Teaching and Learning
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Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works now—and maybe even make it work better in the future. But how…
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Getting to the Core of Climate Change
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This chapter focuses on energy—perhaps the most important idea in all of science. It is used by every scientific discipline and applies to all known natural phenomena. Students hear and use the word “energy” from a very…
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Core Idea ESS2: Earth’s Systems
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The Earth exists as one large system, consisting of an array of interconnected subsystems. Often, scientists focus their efforts on exploring and explaining smaller, individual subsystems or even smaller relationships…
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Core Idea ETS1: Engineering Design
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The engineering, technology, and applications of science disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) address questions about the ways in which engineers use science to develop solutions, the process of design, and the effects of our…
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Core Idea PS1: Matter and Its Interactions
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This chapter focuses on matter and its interactions and discusses the importance of how a rich understanding of atomic theory leads to a deeper understanding of why there are so many different substances in the world. A…
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Core Idea ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe
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Earth and space sciences consists of three disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) that help to explain a wide variety of Earth-related phenomena, including the motion of the planets, changes in climate, and the shape of Earth…
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Core Idea ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
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Of all the fields of scientific study, the Earth sciences are one of the most interdisciplinary. This is particularly true for this disciplinary core idea (DCI), which focuses on society’s interactions with the planet’s…
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Connecting NGSS and the Common Core State Standards
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This chapter introduces educators to the connections between the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in both mathematics and English language arts. The activities provided…
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Dimension 3: Disciplinary Core Ideas: Physical Sciences
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This chapter reviews how the physical science section has been organized under the following four core ideas and 13 component ideas. This sample chapter also includes the Table of Contents and Index.
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Core Idea PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
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This chapter discusses the disciplinary core idea of forces and interactions which consists of three component ideas that are described here. If any idea is a core concept, it is the idea of forces and interactions.…
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Core Idea LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
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This chapter begins by suggesting three ways in which a deeper understanding of ecosystems could enrich students’ lives and support their participation as informed citizens in society. The three ways are by: developing…
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Core Idea LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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The heredity disciplinary core idea (DCI) is about the biological mechanisms that underlie many familiar and less familiar phenomena such as genetic disorders, genetically modified foods, gene therapy, and others.…
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