The sun is a _____.

• Star

• Force

• Planet

• Galaxy

Stars are huge ball of _____.

• Dust

• Gases

• Colors

• Planets

The physical attribute of stars are: _____

• Size and Sun

• Size and Force

• Size and Brightness

• Color and Distance

Which statement best explains why the sun appears brighter than other stars in the sky?

• The sun is bigger than all of the other stars, so it seems brighter.

• The sun is yellow, so it seems brighter than other stars.

• The sun is closer to the earth, so it seems brighter than other stars.

• The sun is farther from the earth, so it has to be brighter than other stars.

A student is observing 3 very bright stars on a diagram. Which question below would help the student understand which star is the brightest?

• How can each star appear in the same pattern and place each night?

• Why are the stars different colors?

• Why does one star look bigger than others?

• What shape is the star?

A student is classifying a star. What question could she ask to learn more about the size of the star?

• How old is the star?

• What shape is the star?

• How big is the star compared to the Sun?

• How bright is the star compared to other stars?

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A student looked into the sky and said, “Look! The sun is the largest star there is! No star is larger than our sun.” Is the student correct in his thinking?

• Yes, because it is so big in the sky.

• Yes, because the other stars are tiny in the sky.

• No, because the moon looks bigger than the sun.

• No, because it only looks big to us.

The students in Mrs. Green’s class are studying the sun and the stars. They used the picture above to make an argument about the size of the sun.

• “The sun is the largest star in the universe because it looks big in the picture.”

• “The earth is bigger than the sun. In the picture you can see the earth is the biggest.”

• “The sun looks bigger than the other stars because in the picture it is closest to the earth.”

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3