Crosscutting Concepts

This CCC states that scientists use different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how these measurements can affect a system's structure or performance

• Change and Stability

• Scale, proportion, and quantity

• Systems and system models

• Energy and Matter

• Cause and Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

This CCC is about the way in which an object or living thing is shaped determines what it can do

• Cause and effect

• Systems and system models

• Patterns

• Energy and matter

• Structure and function

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

What are the CCCs?

• Create Content Creatively

• Cross Cutting Concepts

• Critical Collaborative Communication

• Cross Curricular Content

Scientists use data to create models of systems that are being studied.

• Change and Stability

• Scale, proportion, and quantity

• Systems and system models

• Energy and Matter

• Cause and Effect

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

NGSS.HS-ETS1-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

This CCC involves tracking changes in energy and matter into a system is important to understand it's possibilities and limitations

• Change and Stability

• Scale, proportion, and quantity

• Systems and system models

• Energy and Matter

• Cause and Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This CCC explains how while events have causes and we can make predictions for what outcome will happen

• Patterns

• Structure and function

• Systems and system models

• Energy and Matter

• Cause and Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Repeating events or shapes help scientists to organize

• Cause and effect

• Systems and system models

• Patterns

• Energy and matter

• Structure and function

Which CCC best helps students make sense of water evaporating from a lake into the atmosphere?

• Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

• Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

• Patterns

• Systems and System models

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which CCC best supports making sense of a population of animals slowly disappearing over time?

• Stability and Change

• Structure and Function

• Systems and System Models

• Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which CCC best helps students make sense of the size of the Moon compared to the Earth?

• Patterns

• Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

• Cause and Effect

• Structure and Function

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3