Phenomena-Driven and NGSS-Aligned Assessment Items

MS-PS1-1: Atomic Composition Model

MS-PS1-1 focuses on Matter and its Interactions, specifically emphasizing on atomic composition models. In this post, we’ll look at the standard and understand its performance expectation, and we’ll also look at how to make sense of it with students by connecting the dots and scaffolding up with different tasks.

Summary

The key is for students to understand that everything is made up of atoms and molecules, even things we can see with our own eyes. Once they have that foundation, they can develop models to explain the world around us at different scales. And with those models, they’ll be making sense of the phenomena they see daily.

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