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Lives of Stars
Students explain in their own words how stars are formed. For this space science lesson, students summarize the life cycle of stars. They draw diagrams and label the step of the cycle they represent.
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Milky Way Galaxy
Students simulate stars in the Milky Way Galaxy using newspaper prints. In this space science lesson, students compare the number of 'stars' on their page to familiar things. They calculate how many pages they need to have the same...
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Measuring the Diameter of Our Star
Students conduct an experiment to measure the diameter of the sun. In this astronomy instructional activity, students construct a simple equipment to collect scientific data. They calculate the sun's diameter using a given formula.
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Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Students examine the relationship between temperature and brightness. In this astronomy lesson students will correlate the evolution of stars to the HR diagram plotted.
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Make it Yourself Constellation Finder
Learners identify constellations with and without a constellation finder. In this creating constellations instructional activity students construct a constellation finder to help them to identify the constellations.
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A Star Party
Students explore the parts and function of a telescope. In this investigative lesson students gain an understanding of a telescope and identify planets and constellations.
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Stories in the Sky
Students discover the concept of combining constellations and tall tales. In this tall tale lesson, students compare constellations to tale tales. They create their own tall tale and constellation.
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Lives of Stars
Students take notes on the lives of stars. For this lesson on stars, students take notes alongside a PowerPoint presentation about the lives of stars.
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Stars and Stripes Book
Students create a stars and stripes patriotic book. In this visual arts lesson, students create pages with stars and flags. The students identify which item is the largest.
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Build a Space Shuttle
Students explore the concept of space. In this space activity, students pretend to be aerospace engineers. Students build space ships out of cardboard tubes. Students discuss what aerospace engineers do. Students model their space ships...
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Identify and Construct a Constellation
Third graders identify and construct constellations. In this constellation lesson, 3rd graders choose a method to create a picture of a constellation, either using a shoe box, paper cup, or transparent paper.
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Solar System
In this solar system, students review information about the planets found in our solar system. Students complete 15 fill in the blank questions and then find the 9 planets in a word search.
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Star Magnitudes
In this stars instructional activity, students use a chart comparing the absolute and apparent magnitudes for different stars to complete 4 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions.
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Constellations
In this constellations activity, students write their name as a constellation using an x and y-axis graph. This activity has 1 graph to create.
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Mystery Constellations
Fourth graders predict constellations each month. In this astronomy lesson, 4th graders are presented with two constellations every month, and guess what they are as clues are given.
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Meteor Showers!
Pupils read a story called Orionid Meteors to Shower Earth and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this meteor shower lesson plan, students respond to literature by answering questions, view Sky Maps online, and...
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Star Dot to Dot 1-10
In this dot to dot worksheet, students outline a star by follow the dots. They start at the number 1 and follow through to the number 10.
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What Are Galaxies and Constellations?
In this space worksheet, students write 1 main idea and 4 supporting details about what are galaxies and constellations. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Counting Number of Objects
In this counting activity, students identify and solve 6 different problems that include various objects. First, they circle the number of objects illustrated in each box. Then, students match the objects shown in the left column to the...
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Line Symmetry
For this line symmetry worksheet, 10th graders solve 10 different problems related to various forms of line symmetry. They classify each line of symmetry illustrated as horizontal, vertical, both, or neither. Then students check the...
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Handwriting - d
For this handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the letter d. First, they identify the small letter d and various items that begin with the letter d. Then, students read the sentence given, naming all the d words found....
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A Short Report on Stars- Little Book
For this science and writing worksheet, students fill in 24 blank lines
with information about stars. They fold the page along dotted lines to
make the book. They see a clip art graphic of stars on the cover but
there are no directions...
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Shadow Know-How
In this fill in the blank worksheet, students identify the names of fourteen constellations by analyzing their outlines in shadow
pictures.
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Counting Shapes
For this mathematics worksheet, students identify various shapes. Then they circle the correct number of shapes illustrated in each box. There are 10 problems to solve on the sheet.