In response to increasingly diverse student groups in U.S. schools, educational researchers have developed curricula that respond to students' unique needs, cultures, and experiences. Curricula that embrace a pedagogy of empowerment are known as Culturally Responsive Curricula (CRC), and such curricula specific to science are referred to as Culturally Responsive Science Curricula (CRsC). CRsC allows students to learn science within a culturally familiar context that permits them to connect new science knowledge to previous experiences and knowledge (Menchaca 2001). Like CRC, CRsC provide alternative textual representations of science that challenges traditional cultural assumptions (Menchaca 2001). Moreover, the use of CRsC has also been shown to increase student engagement with content (Nykiel-Herbert 2010), boost students' school attendance (Bernard 2004), improve their grade point averages, and encourage the formation of positive racial self-images (Butler-Barnes et al. 2017). However a recent literature search revealed a dearth of procedures for holistically evaluating Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration and Evaluation (5E) science lesson plans for cultural relevance/responsivity. In response to the lack of rubrics available for holistically assessing lesson plans for culturally relevant/responsive elements, Sandy Watson developed such a rubric for teachers to use as a tool to evaluate 5E science lesson plans and associated resources for CRC and CRsP. The rubric draws from multiple evaluation instruments: (1) The Center for Collaboration's Fairness, Bias, and Cultural-Responsiveness Checklist; (2) The Culturally Responsive-Sustaining STEAM Curriculum Scorecard; and (3) The Culturally Responsive Walkthrough Tool. The rubric includes descriptions of culturally responsive items across four quality levels (excellent, acceptable, developing, and unacceptable) and seven criteria, and is designed for assessing 5E lesson plans.