Star Review

Veronica was investigating how bright stars are based on their size.  She made the following model.

What question would be the best to help her improve her design?

• How many holes have you punched on the paper?

• How can you adjust the size of the holes on the paper?

• What did you use to make the holes?

• How long is the flashlight?

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

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 does one star look bigger than the others?

• What shape is the star?

• Why are the stars different colors?

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

 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 the other stars?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A group of students are looking at stars and wanting to classify the stars.  What question could they ask to find out more information about the size of stars?

• How close is the star to the sun?

• How does the brightness of the star determine its size?

• How do scientists measure the size of stars from Earth?

• Can a star change its size?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Students at Bethesda Elementary were observing and recording physical attributes of stars. They created the chart below

What is a question students can ask to figure out which star is the closest to Earth?

• Which star appears red?

• Which star is dim in brightness?

• Which star is white and twinkles?

• Which star is the brightest?

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NGSS.5-ESS1-1

A student learned that the Sun is a star. What question could students ask to figure out why the Sun appears to be brighter and bigger than other stars?

• How many stars are there in the milky way?

• What caused the sun to be the biggest star in the universe?

• What is the distance between Earth and the sun compared to other stars?

• What is the color of the sun?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

One night, Hadley and MacKenzie were looking at the stars. Hadley pointed to the North Star and said "That is Polaris. It is a very big star. Much bigger than our sun." MacKenzie did not agree with Hadley. Why would MacKenzie think the sun is bigger than Polaris?

• MacKenzie thinks the sun is bigger than Polaris because the sun is closer to Earth

• MacKenzie thinks the sun is bigger than Polaris because the sun is the brightest star

• MacKenzie would think the sun is bigger than Polaris because the sun is the hottest star.

• MacKenzie would think the sun is bigger because it is yellow

Read the sentence and answer the question.

Olivia made the claim that the sun may look giant to us but it really is not very big compared to other stars.

What evidence could Olivia use to defend her claim?

• The sun is yellow

• The sun is the closest star to the Earth.

• The sun is the largest star

• The sun is the brightest star.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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

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

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

• 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.

Based on the diagram, which statement explains how big the sun is compared to other stars.

• The sun is a small star. All of the stars are bigger than the sun.

• The sun is a medium sized star. There are some stars that are larger than the sun, and some that are smaller.

• The sun is the biggest star in the universe. There are no other stars that are larger than it.

• All stars are the same size, so the sun is the same size as all of the other stars.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3