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# Observations and Models Module

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) addressed by this module include:

### NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

        -  HS-LS2 - Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics 
        LS2.A - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
LS2.C - Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

        -  HS-LS4.D - Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity - Biodiversity and Humans 
        -  HS-ESS2.D Earth’s Systems: Weather and Climate 
        -  HS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity 
        ESS3.A - Natural Resources
ESS3.C - Human Impacts on Earth Systems
ESS3.D - Global Climate Change

### NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

        -  **Developing and using models:** students create simple models of temperature, interpret data from climate models, and use the VES-V model to study marine environments. 
        -  **Analyzing and interpreting data:** students analyze data about temperature and climate models, berries from a garden, and marine organisms in the oceans. 
        -  **Using mathematics and computational thinking:** students use interpolation in temperature models, sampling and extrapolation in the garden example, and graph interpretation in the VES-V examples. 
        -  **Engaging in argument from evidence:** students make and justify claims about datasets being derived from observations or from models. 

### NGSS Crosscutting Concepts

        -  **Scale, proportion, and quantity.** In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance. 
        -  **Systems and system models.** Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering. 
        -  **Stability and change.** For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study 

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