Curated OER
Stars Lab
After making a list of top 10 brightest stars, your class will learn to classify the colors of the hottest and coolest stars. The spectral classes will help with understanding of nuclear fusion and the life of a star.
Curated OER
Star Light...Star Bright
In this brightness of stars worksheet, high schoolers use a given formula using the temperature in Kelvins of a star to find its brightness. Students solve 4 problems using this equation.
NASA
Star Brightness
In this brightness of stars activity, high schoolers answer 7 questions about the apparent magnitudes of stars, the sun, and the moon. They compare the brightness of stars, galaxies, astronomical objects and the sun.
Curated OER
How is a Star's Color Related to Its Temperature?
In this star color and temperature worksheet, students create a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in order to determine how star brightness, color, temperature, and class are related. Once diagram is complete, they answer 6 short answer...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: The Constellations and Their Stars
An excellent site dedicated to the constellations and information about the objects which make them up. Contains a great deal of information about various stars, galaxies and other objects, as well as details on how best to observe them.
University of Oregon
Determining Properties of Stars
An excellent website detailing how a star's properties can be determined, and how these properties lead to the way a star is classified.
Other
Constellations Web Page: The Constellations
Information about 88 constellations, including the myths associated with them and details of the major astronomical objects that are part of them.
Other
National Optical Astronomy Observatory: Jewels of the Night
Using the Jewelbox Cluster, students determine the cluster's age based on measurements of its color and brightness.
NASA
Nasa: Imagine the Universe: How Big Is That Star
This 2-5 day lesson plan investigates the diameter, radius and mass among several stars in order to understand stellar behavior, particularly in a binary system.
Lerner Publishing Group
Lerner Classroom: Teaching Science Through Literacy
In this lesson plan, students will gather evidence to support the argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared with other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth. Students will also write texts in...