Physical Science: Physics · Engineering Design

HS-ETS1-3Evaluating a Design Solution

Performance expectation

Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.

The three dimensions

Every item written to HS-ETS1-3 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

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Disciplinary core ideas
  • ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions
Crosscutting concepts
  • Influence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World

Related performance expectations

Generate a cluster for HS-ETS1-3

Phenomenon stimulus, connected items across the required types, answer key, rubric and figures drawn deterministically from a structured spec — in the format your students will sit.