Unit Planning Using the Crosscutting Concepts

by: Cassie Quigley, Judy Harrington, and Dani Herro

Discover strategies for integrating crosscutting concepts with disciplinary core ideas and engineering processes in a watercycle unit.

Topics

CCC1: Patterns CCC2: Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Explanation CCC3: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity CCC4: Systems and System Models CCC5: Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation CCC6: Structure and Function CCC7: Stability and Change Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Disciplinary Core Ideas in Earth and Space Science Disciplinary Core Ideas in Life Science Earth and Space Science Earth's water Ecosystems ENCdl ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth's Surface Processes ESS2: Earth's Systems Life Science LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics Science as Inquiry Science Focus Three Dimensions of the Framework and/or NGSS

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2017Stock # ss17_040_09_40Volume 040Issue 09

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