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Learning to Read the Earth and Sky: Explorations Supporting the NGSS, Grades 6–12 (Book Sample)
Is it time to refresh the way you think about teaching Earth science? Learning to Read the Earth and Sky is the multifaceted resource you need to brin...
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Introduction to DCIs: What They Are and Why They Are Important
This chapter serves as an introduction to Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs). As a whole, DCIs help students build usable knowledge that is central to the...
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Core Idea PS1: Matter and Its Interactions
This chapter focuses on matter and its interactions and discusses the importance of how a rich understanding of atomic theory leads to a deeper unders...
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Core Idea PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
This chapter discusses the disciplinary core idea of forces and interactions which consists of three component ideas that are described here. If any i...
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This chapter focuses on energy—perhaps the most important idea in all of science. It is used by every scientific discipline and applies to all known...
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Core Idea LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
In this chapter, the disciplinary core idea (DCI) is central to biology and also serves as the glue connecting all four DCIs in the life sciences stra...
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Core Idea LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
This chapter begins by suggesting three ways in which a deeper understanding of ecosystems could enrich students’ lives and support their participat...
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Core Idea LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
The heredity disciplinary core idea (DCI) is about the biological mechanisms that underlie many familiar and less familiar phenomena such as genetic d...
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Core Idea LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
This chapter has hopefully provided a bit more insight into the disciplinary core idea (DCI) of Evolution: Unity and Diversity. Taking an evolutionary...
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Core Idea ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe
Earth and space sciences consists of three disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) that help to explain a wide variety of Earth-related phenomena, including th...
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Core Idea ESS2: Earth’s Systems
The Earth exists as one large system, consisting of an array of interconnected subsystems. Often, scientists focus their efforts on exploring and expl...
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Core Idea ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
Of all the fields of scientific study, the Earth sciences are one of the most interdisciplinary. This is particularly true for this disciplinary core ...
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Core Idea ETS1: Engineering Design
The engineering, technology, and applications of science disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) address questions about the ways in which engineers use scienc...
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Core Idea ETS2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society
This component of the disciplinary core idea (DCI) brings together two movements in science education—environmental education and science, technolog...
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This lesson helps students understand the function of the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. Students will relate the ...