Integration of practices, crosscutting concepts, and

core ideas.

NGSS Architecture

Dimension 1:Scientific and Engineering

Practices

. . . Defining Problems

Developing and Using Models

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Analyzing and Interpreting

Data

Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

Constructing Explanations

. . . Designing Solutions (Engineering)

Engaging in Argument

from Evidence

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating

Information

Dimension 2:Crosscutting

Concepts

Patterns

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Cause and

Effect

Systems and System Models

Energy and Matter

Structure and Function

Stability and Change

Dimension 3:Core Ideas

• PS 1: Matter and Its Interactions

• PS 2: Motion and Stability

• PS 3: Energy

• PS 4: Waves and Their Applications

Physical Sciences

• PS 1: Matter and Its Interactions

• PS 2: Motion and Stability

• PS 3: Energy

• PS 4: Waves and Their Applications

Physical Sciences

• ESS 1: Earth’s Place in the Universe

• ESS 2: Earth Systems

• ESS 3: Earth and Human Activity

Earth and Space Sciences

• ETS 1: Engineering Design

• ETS 2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science and Society

Engineering, Technology andApplications of Sciences