Crosscutting Concepts

CCC Resources

• Using Crosscutting Concepts to Prompt Student Responses The purpose of this primer is to encourage K-12 educators to use consistent and clear prompts structured around the crosscutting concepts to provide a common scientific language that students and teachers use as they engage in the formative assessment process.

• Crosscutting Concepts for Middle School Students (Rubric) Source: CA NGSS Early Implementation Initiative, K-12 Alliance @WestEd

• SEP and CCC Graphic Organizers Paul Anderson (Bozeman Science) has created a new website full of NGSS resources called "The Wonder of Science”. In addition to phenomena and assessments for each PE K-12th grades, he has also developed graphic organizers for each SEP and CCC that could be used across grade levels.

• Prompts for Integrating Crosscutting Concepts into Assessment and Instruction

• Crosscutting Concepts Posters

• Crosscutting Concepts Summary Poster

• Appendix G: Crosscutting Concepts

• Detailed Matrix of NGSS Crosscutting Concepts

• Pete A'Hearn's Crosscut Symbols (posters and questions to use to promote student thinking through the Crosscutting Concepts)

San Diego County Office of Education CCC Resources

• CCC 1: Patterns

• CCC 2: Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Explanation

• CCC 3: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

• CCC 4: Systems and Systems Models

  • Seven Activities to Engage Systems Thinking

• CCC 5: Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

• CCC 6: Structure and Function

• CCC 7: Stability and Change