Performance expectationCommunicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.
Emphasis is on how nucleosynthesis varies as a function of the mass of a star and the stage of its lifetime.
Details of the many different nucleosynthesis pathways for stars of differing masses are not assessed.
Every item written to HS-ESS1-3 has to assess all three dimensions together, not the content alone. This is the structural change that made older practice material stop matching the exam.
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Phenomenon stimulus, connected items across the required types, answer key, rubric and figures drawn deterministically from a structured spec — in the format your students will sit.