“Cross-cutting concepts” are a unique feature of the Next Generation Science Standards that are, to put it nicely, a bit tough to explain. But a California science teacher has created visual ...

Systems and System Models , Cause and Effect, and Structure and Function. Host introduces matter and Cross Cutting Concepts. Teacher and students discuss the properties of matter. Students measure the ...

With all the talk in education circles these days about “college and career readiness,” it may come as little surprise that the issue is now being raised in the context of the common standards for ...

The federal government has asked the U.S. National Committee for the Ocean Decade to identify cross-cutting themes that incorporate promising and innovative research concepts. These themes are based ...