Solar Oven
Materials
Activity Directions
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- A large sheet of black construction paper or poster board
- Cotton Balls
- Markers or paint
- Small yellow pom-poms
- Large red pom-poms
- Small white sequin
Activity Directions
- Watch the video on stars linked below.
- Test your understanding of stars by playing a fun Quizizz game!
- Perform the Life Cycle of a Star activity
- Take your cotton ball and lightly pull away at it until it creates a wispy cloud of cotton. Then, using your markers, color the pulled out cotton brown and grey.
- This will represent a stellar nebula, where stars are made
- Glue your stellar nebula to the top left of the poster and make sure to label it.
- Next, glue a small yellow pom-pom next to the stellar nebula, making sure to draw an arrow between the two structures.
- The yellow pom-pom represents an average star. Make sure to label it on your poster.
- Then, glue a large red pom-pom after the average star (yellow pom-pom) and draw an arrow pointing to the right.
- The red pom-pom represents a Red Giant, the structure many average stars turn into. Label the structure on your poster.
- Next, take another cotton ball and pull away at it until it creates another wispy cloud of cotton. Using your markers or paint, color the cotton purple, orange, and blue.
- This will represent a planetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust that Red Giants turn into. Label the structure on your poster and draw an arrow pointing to the right.
- Finally, glue a small white sequin.
- This sequin represents a white dwarf, a dense, hot, final structure that average stars like the Sun turn into. Label this structure on your poster.
- You are done! Go back and decorate your poster however you would like. Additionally, research more about the life cycle of stars. Do all stars follow this cycle? How does a star change into a planetary nebula and then into a white dwarf? Have fun exploring the world of stars!
- Take your cotton ball and lightly pull away at it until it creates a wispy cloud of cotton. Then, using your markers, color the pulled out cotton brown and grey.
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Published 9.12.2020