This course is designed to engage students in a comprehensive program as they work to make sense of the natural world through phenomenon-based instruction and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs) of the Next Generation of Science Standards (NGSS). The Disciplinary Core Ideas for seventh grade include: structure and properties of matter, growth and development of organisms, matter and energy flow in organisms, structure and function in relation to cells, environmental and genetic factors affecting growth of organisms, and plant and animal reproduction. In this course, students are expected to consistently apply the SEPs and demonstrate the correlation among the CCCs in order to make sense of and connect the DCIs across disciplines of science.
