Network Builder standards and alignment

• Science and Engineering Practices: computational thinking, modeling, repeated comparison, and evidence-based explanation.
• Crosscutting Concepts: systems, optimization, tradeoffs, constraints, and stability and change.
• Algorithmic literacy: distinguishing heuristic improvement from proof of global optimality.

Network Builder is most useful when learners compare repeated runs, state model limits honestly, and revise claims when a favored setting does not generalize. That makes it a good companion to the broader Scientific Virtues materials.