Listed below are the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) for Physical Science and bullet points for their specific grade band progression.
PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation
- People also use a variety of devices to communicate (send and receive information) over long distances.
- Digitized information can be transmitted over long distances without significant degradation. High-tech devices, such as computers or cell phones, can receive and decode information—convert it from digitized form to voice—and vice versa.
- Digitized signals (sent as wave pulses) are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information.
- Multiple technologies based on the understanding of waves and their interactions with matter are part of everyday experiences in the modern world (e.g., medical imaging, communications, scanners) and in scientific research. They are essential tools for producing, transmitting, and capturing signals and for storing and interpreting the information contained in them.
This is a table of the Disciplinary Core Ideas
of Physical Science. If
coming from a Standard the specific bullet point used is highlighted
and additional performance Expectations that make use of the
Disciplinary Core Idea can be found below the table.
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