4-PS4-3   Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

4-PS4-3. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of solutions could include drums sending coded information through sound waves, using a grid of 1’s and 0’s representing black and white to send information about a picture, and using Morse code to send text.]
The performance expectation above was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation

ETS1.C: Optimizing The Design Solution

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Connections to Engineering, Technology,                   and Applications of Science

 

Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Connections to other DCIs in fourth grade:

4.ETS1.A

Articulation of DCIs across grade-levels:

K.ETS1.A ; 2.ETS1.B ; 2.ETS1.C ; 3.PS2.A ; MS.PS4.C ; MS.ETS1.B

Common Core State Standards Connections:

ELA/Literacy -
RI.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. (4-PS4-3)
RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (4-PS4-3)

4-PS4-3   Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

4-PS4-3. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of solutions could include drums sending coded information through sound waves, using a grid of 1’s and 0’s representing black and white to send information about a picture, and using Morse code to send text.]
The performance expectation above was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation

ETS1.C: Optimizing The Design Solution

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Connections to Engineering, Technology,                   and Applications of Science

 

Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Connections to other DCIs in fourth grade:

4.ETS1.A

Articulation of DCIs across grade-levels:

K.ETS1.A ; 2.ETS1.B ; 2.ETS1.C ; 3.PS2.A ; MS.PS4.C ; MS.ETS1.B

Common Core State Standards Connections:

ELA/Literacy -
RI.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. (4-PS4-3)
RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (4-PS4-3)

4-PS4-3   Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

4-PS4-3. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of solutions could include drums sending coded information through sound waves, using a grid of 1’s and 0’s representing black and white to send information about a picture, and using Morse code to send text.]
The performance expectation above was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation

ETS1.C: Optimizing The Design Solution

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Connections to Engineering, Technology,                   and Applications of Science

 

Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Connections to other DCIs in fourth grade:

4.ETS1.A

Articulation of DCIs across grade-levels:

K.ETS1.A ; 2.ETS1.B ; 2.ETS1.C ; 3.PS2.A ; MS.PS4.C ; MS.ETS1.B

Common Core State Standards Connections:

ELA/Literacy -
RI.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. (4-PS4-3)
RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (4-PS4-3)

* The performance expectations marked with an asterisk integrate traditional science content with engineering through a Practice or Disciplinary Core Idea.

The section entitled “Disciplinary Core Ideas” is reproduced verbatim from A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Cross-Cutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Integrated and reprinted with permission from the National Academy of Sciences.

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