These Strategic Thinking In Science questions are NGSS-aligned and challenge students to synthesize information, model patterns, and explain phenomena, directly addressing NGSS and CAST expectations with DOK 2-3 questions. They work best with Classtime's professional development on Strategic Thinking in Science.
84 Question Sets
3-5th Grade Science - 3-5-ETS1-1 - Defining Simple Design Problems
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3-5th Grade Science - 3-5-ETS1-2 - Multiple Possible Solutions
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3-5th Grade Science - 3-5-ETS1-3 - Controlled Variables And Failure Points
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS4-3 - Survival In Environments
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3rd Grade Science - 3-ESS2-1 - Typical Weather Conditions
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3rd Grade Science - 3-ESS2-2 - Climates
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3rd Grade Science - 3-ESS3-1 - Reducing Impacts Of Weather Related Hazards
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS1-1 - Life Cycles
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS2-1 - Forming Groups
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS3-1 - Inherited Traits
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS3-2 - Traits Influenced By Environment
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS4-1 - Analyze Fossils
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS4-2 - Adaptations and Survival
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3rd Grade Science - 3-LS4-4 - Merits Of Solutions
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3rd Grade Science - 3-PS2-1 - Balanced And Unbalanced Forces
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3rd Grade Science - 3-PS2-2 - Predict An Object's Motion
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3rd Grade Science - 3-PS2-3 - Electric And Magnetic Interactions
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3rd Grade Science - 3-PS2-4 - Using Magnets
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3rd Grade Science - Performance Task - Turtles
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4th Grade Science - 4-ESS3-1 - Natural Resources
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4th Grade Science - 4-ESS1-1 - Changes In Landscapes
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4th Grade Science - 4-ESS2-1 - Measuring Earth’s Changing Surface
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4th Grade Science - 4-ESS2-2 - Analyze Maps Of Earth's Features
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4th Grade Science - 4-ESS3-2 - Reducing Impacts Of Natural Earth Processes
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4th Grade Science - 4-LS1-1 - Internal And External Structures
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4th Grade Science - 4-LS1-2 - Animal Senses
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS3-1 - Speed And Energy
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS3-2 - Transfer Of Energy
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS3-3 - Objects Colliding
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS3-4 - Devices That Convert Energy
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS4-1 - Wave Models
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS4-2 - How Objects Are Seen
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4th Grade Science - 4-PS4-3 - Patterns To Transfer Information
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS1-1 - Tiny Particles
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5th Grade Science - 5-ESS1-1 - The Sun And Stars
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5th Grade Science - 5-ESS1-2 - Patterns Of Daily Changes
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5th Grade Science - 5-ESS2-1 - How The Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere, And Atmosphere Interact
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5th Grade Science - 5-ESS2-2 - Earth's Water
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5th Grade Science - 5-ESS3-1 - Protecting Earth's Resources And Environments
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5th Grade Science - 5-LS1-1 - What Plants Need
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5th Grade Science - 5-LS2-1 - Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS1-2 - Conservation Of Mass
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS1-3 - Identify Materials Based On Their Properties
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS1-4 - Evidence of Change
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS2-1 - Gravity
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5th Grade Science - 5-PS3-1 - The Energy In Food
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS1-1 - Earth-Sun-Moon System
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS1-2 Gravity at Work: From Moons and Satellites to Galactic Paths
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS1-3 - Space and Scale Properties
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS1-4 - Rock Strata and Geologic Time Scale
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS2-2 - Geoscience Processes and Changing Earth's Surface
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS2-3 - Analyzing Geologic and Fossil Evidence to Support Plate Tectonic Theory
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-ESS3-1 - Earth's Mineral, Energy, and Groundwater Resources
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS1-1 - Living Things are Made of Cells
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS1-2 - A Cell, its Parts, and their Functions
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS1-3 - The Body and its Interacting Subgroups
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS1-7 - Chemical Reactions for Growth and Energy
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS1-8 - Sense → Signal → Brain: How We React to the World
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS2-1 - Resource Availability and Organisms in an Ecosystem
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-LS2-2 - Interactions Among Organisms Across Multiple Ecosystems
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS1-2 - Using Evidence to Determine Chemical Changes
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS1-4-Change in Particle Motion, Temperature, and State
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS2-1 - Newton's Third Law
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS2-2 - Sum of the Forces and an Object's Motion
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS3-1 - Kinetic Energy, Mass, and Speed
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS3-2 - Potential Energy
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6-8th Grade Science - MS-PS3-5 - Changes in Kinetic Energy
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High School Science - HS-ESS1-1 - Energy Of The Sun
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High School Science - HS-ESS1-2 - Scale Properties of Objects in the Solar System
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High School Science - HS-ESS1-3 - Life Cycles of Stars
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High School Science - HS-ESS1-4 - Predicting the Motion of Orbiting Objects in the Solar System
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High School Science - HS-ESS1-5 - Orbiting Objects
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High School Science - HS-LS1-1 - Structure of DNA Determines Structure of Proteins
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High School Science - HS-LS1-2 - Hierarchical Organization of Interacting Systems in Multicellular Organisms
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High School Science - HS-LS1-3 - Homeostasis Through Feedback Mechanisms
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High School Science - HS-LS1-5 - Photosynthesis
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High School Science - HS-LS3-2 - Where Genetic Variation Comes From
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High School Science - HS-PS1-1 - Periodic Table and Predicting Properties
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High School Science - HS-PS1-2 - Explanation of Chemical Reactions
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High School Science - HS-PS1-3 - Relating Measurable Properties to Intermolecular or Interparticle Electrical Forces
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High School Science - HS-PS1-4 - Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
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High School Science - HS-PS1-5 - How Temperature, Concentration, and Catalyst Affect Chemical Reaction Rates
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High School Science - HS-PS2-3 - Reducing Force in Crashes
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Middle School Science - Performance Task - The Clearwater River Ecosystem Investigation
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