Performance expectationCommunicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.
Examples could include Doppler effect, solar cells capturing light and converting it to electricity; medical imaging; and communications technology.
Assessments are limited to qualitative information. Assessments do not include band theory.
Every item written to HS-PS4-5 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.
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
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.