Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Stars Lab

Station #2 
Star Foldable
Website:
www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/AllStarTop.html


Write these into your OWN words:
Vocabulary
star - large balls of hot gas
luminosity/magnitude - the brightness of a star (0.0001 - 1,000,000)
temperature - how hot or cool a star is (2,000 - 30,000)
size - how big or small a star is 
color  - the color of a star (red, orange, yellow, white, blue-white and blue)
spectral class - a letter that tells the temperature of a star (OBAFGKM)
star type - stars are grouped by their size, temperature and luminosity/magnitude 


Station #3
BrainPop 
Video: Life Cycle of a Star
Login: ihslafayette
Password: brainpop