ES PQS: Section 202 (Stellar Life Cycle and Element Production)

NGSS HS-ESS1-3

Unit Objective: I will be able to communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.

Process

202PC Engage

Complete the 202PC Engage Pre-requisite Assessment on MS Forms.

202PC Explore Reading

Honors: Read "Where Do Chemical Elements Come From?” (PDF) and answer questions in the associated "Where Do Chemical Elements Come From? Questions” document. (MS Word) Submit to Synergy drop box when completed.
A-Level: Read "Where Do Chemical Elements Come From (A)" (MS Word), answer questions and submit to Synergy drop box when completed.

202PC Explore Video

Choose 1 to watch and answer the associated questions.

(Honors/In Class) Discovery Education Assignment: "202PC Explore Video: Supernovas"
(Honors) Edpuzzle Assignment: "202PC We are made of star stuff: Jocelyn Bell Burnell"
(A-Level) Edpuzzle Assignment: "202PC Lifecycles of Stars"

202PC Explore Lecture

Lecture: Star Life Cycle and Nucleosynthesis (PDF)
Graphic Organizer (MS Word)

202PC Elaborate

(Honors) Complete the In-Class Fusion Activity (MS Word)
(A-Level) TBA

Product

202PD Remember

Complete the Remember Assessment on MS Forms: "202PD Remember Assessment"

202PD Understand

Complete the Understand Assessment on MS Forms: "202PD Understand Assessment"

202PD Apply (MS Word)

Complete the "MISA Stellar Life Cycle" Assessment

202PD Analyze (MS Word)

Answer one of the following prompts:

(A-Level Only) Compare and contrast the two stellar life-cycle "paths" as they relate to mass and element production.
(A-Level or Honors) Write the "biography" of either Strontium (38) or Krypton (36) starting with its birth in a Stellar Nebula up to the point that it is fully created.

202PD Evaluate (MS Word)

Write a CER that defends the claim, "My mobile device is made of star dust and, according to the Bare Naked Ladies song, it all started with a Big Bang!"

202PD Create (Honors Only) (MS Word)

For full credit, you must demonstrate cold fusion, "an energy process that will theoretically allow for a limitless source of nuclear energy created on small surfaces at room temperatures" that will charge the teachers cellular device from 10% to 100% charged in less than 2 hours.

There is no partial credit. Upon successful completion, either individually, a group, or as a class the student(s) will receive 30 points, the gratitude of their community and the nation, and, very likely, a Nobel Prize. Consideration may be given to excusing successful participants from all future Earth Systems work with a grade of A and automatic promotion to the next required science class.

Some hints and guidelines may be found at this link: Dr. Emma Russell Electrochemistry Lecture on Cold Fusion

NOTE: Students must pass the unit Remember and Understand assessments prior to moving on to this assessment. Students may choose to complete this Create assessment OR all three of the unit Apply, Analyze, and the Evaluate assessments.