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HS-PS3-6Ohm's Law and Electric Circuits

Performance expectation

Analyze data to support the claim that Ohm's Law describes the mathematical relationship among the potential difference, current, and resistance of an electric circuit.

HS-PS3-6 is unique to New York State — it does not appear in the national NGSS set for Physics, which is why practice material for it is so hard to find.

What NYSED says about assessing it

Clarification statement

Emphasis should be on arrangements of series circuits and parallel circuits using conventional current.

Assessment boundary

Assessment is limited to direct current (DC) circuits.

The three dimensions

Every item written to HS-PS3-6 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

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Disciplinary core ideas
  • PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
Crosscutting concepts
  • Patterns

Related performance expectations

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