5-ESS1-1: Stellar Brightness and Distance

Clarification Statement: none

Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to relative distances, not sizes, of stars. Assessment does not include other factors that affect apparent brightness (such as stellar masses, age, stage).

The following assessments were shared by teachers implementing the NGSS.  Many of these are drafts and should be used accordingly.  Feel free to improve these assessments or contribute your own.  Learn more here.

ELA/Literacy

• RI.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

• RI.5.7 - Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently. 

• RI.5.8 - Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s). 

• RI.5.9 - Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. 

• W.5.1 - Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. 

Mathematics

• 5.NBT.A.2 - Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10. 

• MP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 

• MP.4 - Model with mathematics. 

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