Full Description
Highlighting Crosscutting Concepts in Three-Dimensional Science Lessons supports middle school science teachers in adapting their lesson delivery to engage with crosscutting concepts (CCCs), a core element of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's key conceptual framework. Rather than serve as a prescriptive curriculum, this hands-on resource offers lesson sequences across three key content areas—physical science, life science, and earth and space science—that are aligned with one or more of the CCCs. Each lesson is matched to specific performance expectations, science and engineering practices, and disciplinary core ideas of the Next Generation Science Standards. Many of these lessons further guide teachers to help students, including those struggling, engage in scientific argumentation and write Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning statements. Readable in any order, this book fosters your students' engagement with science in a way that incorporates standards-based rigor and understanding of important real-world phenomena.
Contents
Chapter 1: Crosscutting Concepts
Section I: Physical Science Lessons
Chapter 2: Salt Crystals and Lattice Structures
Chapter 3: Molecular Motion
Chapter 4: Modeling Chemical Changes
Chapter 5: May the Force Be with You
Chapter 6: Forces and Motion
Chapter 7: The Physics of Skateboarding
Chapter 8: Energy Transformations!
Chapter 9: What Is the Best Type of Light for Growing Plants in a Greenhouse?
Section II: Life Science Lessons
Chapter 10: Scale and Cells
Chapter 11: The Structure and Function of Cell Components
Chapter 12: Modeling the Digestive System
Chapter 13: Conservation of Matter During Digestion
Chapter 14: Causation vs. Correlation
Chapter 15: Who Wants to Live a Million Years?
Chapter 16: The Hare and the Linx
Chapter 17: Food Chains: More Than Who Eats What
Chapter 18: Rabbits Take Over the World!
Chapter 19: Dynamic Equilibrium and Rabbits
Section III: Earth and Space Science
Chapter 20: Historic vs Geologic Time Lines
Chapter 21: Puzzling Out the Fossil Record
Chapter 22: How Fast Can an Island Move?
Chapter 23: Gravity: What Makes the World Go Around
Chapter 24: Tracking Water and Energy in the Water Cycle
Chapter 25: What Does the Data Show?
Appendices
