Teachers | constellations

Note to teachers:

This project can be run as a cross-curricular assignment with your ELA colleagues when they are teaching about mythology. Students could then attempt to connect the stars in their constellation using a different pattern to represent a person animal or object and write myth about their "new" constellation.

Here are a couple of resources that could be used should you wish to attempt this addition/extension:

Create a Constellation

Constellation Project

Standards alignment

This project is aimed at providing students with a learning experience addressing the following:

NGSS

5-ESS1-1.Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth.
5-ESS1-2.Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.
5-ESS3-1.Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
MS-ESS3-3.Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

CCSS - 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.
SL.5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.