CCRS Science

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Outcomes• Locate the Framework for K-12 Science Education.• Literacy – Explain how science, math and language arts are connected (Activity).•Grade level collaboration – identify interconnections among science, math, and language arts using the CCRS.

Understanding the Framework

Guiding principles of The Framework are research-based and include…

Framework Recommendations

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A Few Principles of The Framework

Children are born investigators

Connect to students’ prior experience

Focus on core ideas and practices

Disciplinary Core IdeasPhysical Science

• PS1: Matter and its Interactions• PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and

Interactions• PS3: Energy• PS4: Waves and Their Applications in

Technologies for Information Transfer

Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science

• ETS1: Engineering Design• ETS2: Links Among Engineering,

Technology, Science, and Society

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Question:

Can you light up a bulb using batteries and some aluminum foil?

Make a plan:

Write it down.

Test your plan:

Did it work?

No… try again.

Yes…

1. Talk about the results.

2. Have one person in the group write about the procedure used.

Children work together…

Ask questions and define problems

Develop and use models

Plan and carry out investigations

Analyze and interpret data

Use mathematical and computational thinking

Science & Engineering Practices

Look at Connections •Handout - Commonalities Among the Practices: Science, Mathematics, and English Language Arts

Describe how electrical circuits are used to produce light.

Science

Math

ELA

Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units.

Explain events in scientific text.

Add, subtract or multiply watts and/or volts.

Identify the main ideas in nonfiction article about energy.

Use batteries, small lights, and other materials to determine which items conduct energy.

Write directions to light a bulb with foil and batteries.

Examples:Energy Related Homework•Read the home gas or electric meter everyday for a week. Calculate usage and compare with classmates. Identify the variables that impact usage.

•Make a floor plan of lights in the house. Write the number of lights in each room. Calculate the wattage if all the lights are:•40 watts•60 watts

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Collaboration/Plan Together

•Choose one reading unit.•Locate a science standard to correlate.•Determine a math standard to correlate.

•Make a Venn Diagram with the CCRS shown in each section.

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