NGSS High School Need-to-Know Terms

This hand-out can be exclusively for teacher information to impart to students or can be used to teach these concepts to students. Teachers and students need to know the similarities and differences between the scientific method and engineering design process. They need to know the basic parts of a system, and how models represent systems. I have given examples of the three most common types of models and have shown an example of a system as a model with inputs, accumulation and outputs.