NGSS Cross-Cutting Concepts

CE-H2 Cross-Cutting Concepts resources

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CE-H2 | Cross-Cutting Concepts

Cause and effect relationships can be suggested and predicted for complex natural and human designed systems by examining what is known about smaller scale mechanisms within the system.

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Animal Collective: How group behavior can produce surprising problems—and solutions!

Grades

9, 10, 11, 12

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Students will draw their own social networks, ponder the meaning of complexity and begin to notice unexpected patterns that emerge around them, unnoticed. Through hands-on activities and digital experiments, students will discover how complexity research enriches our daily lives.

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Lessons: 4, 5

In both simulations "Swimming in the Dark" and "EchoSim", students will tinker with variables, run trials, and collect response data from graphs to understand causal relationships between individual behavior rules and group behavior.

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