Crosscutting Concepts (CC's)Crosscutting Concepts Addressed
1) Systems & System Models : Models (e.g., physical, mathematical, computer models) can be used to simulate systems and interactions – including energy, matter, and information flows – within and between systems at different scales.
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2) Systems and System Models : When investigating or describing a system, the boundaries and initial conditions of the system need to be defined and their inputs and outputs analyzed and described using models.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
3) Energy and Matter Changes of energy in a system can be described in terms of energy and matter flows into, out of, and within that system.
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4) Energy and Matter Energy cannot be created or destroyed--it only moves between place and another, between objects and/or fields, or between systems.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
1) Systems & System Models : Models (e.g., physical, mathematical, computer models) can be used to simulate systems and interactions – including energy, matter, and information flows – within and between systems at different scales.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater-Exploring Energy Transfer and Transformation
- PhET Simulations: Pendulum Lab, Energy Skate Park
- Physics Classroom: Mass on a Spring
- Walk Through a Hydroelectric Project
2) Systems and System Models : When investigating or describing a system, the boundaries and initial conditions of the system need to be defined and their inputs and outputs analyzed and described using models.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater
- PhET Simulations: Pendulum Lab, Energy Skate Park
- Energizer Model
3) Energy and Matter Changes of energy in a system can be described in terms of energy and matter flows into, out of, and within that system.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater
- Smarter Every Day Video: The Physics of Slingshots
4) Energy and Matter Energy cannot be created or destroyed--it only moves between place and another, between objects and/or fields, or between systems.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater
- PhET: Energy Forms & Changes
- Making Work Work
- What's Up and Down with KE and PE?