Earth's Place in the Universe: NGSS Grade 5-ESS1

This product is everything you need to deliver mastery in Next Generation Science 5-ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe. It has 32 no prep pages and 2 labs. It includes related vocabulary, the Milky Way, the Solar System, star magnitude and corresponding lab using flashlights, Earth's location in the Solar System, orbit of the Earth around the Sun and its effects, orbit of moon around earth and its effects, shadows with corresponding 2 day graphing lab, and reading the appearance of certain stars and constellations in the night sky. The product touches on, but does not dwell on the concept of planets. It contains a beautiful graphic which includes the controversial dwarf planet, Pluto. This may or may not lead to discussions of whether or not Pluto should have been demoted to a dwarf planet.