Sugar and spice and everything nice ... and a little bit of star stuff! An enthusiastic presentation describes the elemental makeup of the human body and how these materials originated in a red giant star. As an episode of a larger solar system series, the lesson highlights the importance of these stars from billions of years ago to our universe.

Concepts

stars, compositions, body composition, elements, compounds

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Build a list of particles that comprise stars
• Flip your classroom by assigning the video lesson as homework; use class time for discussion and questions

Classroom Considerations

• Provide laptops with Internet access if requiring independent viewing

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes an option for auto translate closed captioning
• Provides additional videos on similar topics

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.7