Crosscutting Concepts

All about the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts. The most powerful dimension. Tweeting CCC resources.

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This video explains how the seven crosscutting concepts are related to each other using a graphic organizer.

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Teaching students to use the crosscutting concepts as a set of tools can empower them to direct their own scientific intellectual work.
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@SciJeanne @kmgill135 Definitely. That is why it is so important for us as a field to figure out the ways to scaffold students' development of metacognition related to their use of CCCs.

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@SciJeanne @kmgill135 And this is the point... students need to have epistemic agency. They need to decide which tool to use, how to use it, and if it is helpful to their goal. When we facilitate this, then they are the "master chef" or "master scientific thinker"

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@SciJeanne Like these guiding ideas for cooking using spices...

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@SciJeanne In my mind, if the CCCs are the thinking tools for scientific intellectual work, then in that analogy the CCCs should be something else.
What guiding ideas do cooks use to decide how to create delicious meals?

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@NGSS_tweeps This yields a student-level explanation for the phenomenon, which I then turn into 3D learning objectives for the unit.

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@NGSS_tweeps I like to apply the CCC elements (NGSS Appendix G) for a grade band to the phenomenon to develop a set of grade-appropriate explanatory ideas. Then decide which are most valuable.

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@NGSS_tweeps “CCCs should…become part of the toolkit that a student freely calls on and uses when confronted with any unfamiliar science phenomenon or engineering problem.” — Helen Quinn (2021)

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[Crosscutting Concepts @ccc_thinking]

This video explains how the seven crosscutting concepts are related to each other using a graphic organizer.

#808science
#CCCThinking
https://t.co/FcvNheNZHz

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@NGSS_tweeps https://t.co/Pz9ezLij3r

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“CCCs should…become part of the toolkit that a student freely calls on and uses when confronted with any unfamiliar science phenomenon or engineering problem.” — Helen Quinn (2021)