Physical Science: Physics · Engineering Design

HS-ETS1-1Defining a Global Challenge

Performance expectation

Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.

The three dimensions

Every item written to HS-ETS1-1 has to assess all three dimensions together, not the content alone. This is the structural change that made older practice material stop matching the exam.

Science & engineering practice

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Disciplinary core ideas
  • ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting
Crosscutting concepts
  • Influence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World

Related performance expectations

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