Mass Matters

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Mass Matters

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This lesson is a creative way to illustrate the relationship between the stages in a star's life and the star's mass. The students create concept maps to organize the stages in the development of three categories of stars.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

Astronomy

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Concept mapping, Black holes, Stellar mass, Mass, Stars, Neutron stars, Black dwarf stars, White dwarf stars

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Tami McConnell

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/lessons/Level4SC.asp

Language:

English

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P21 Subject:

Science

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Science (1996)

Strand E: Earth and Space

Standard 2: The student recognizes the vastness of the universe and the Earth's place in it. (SC.E.2.4)

1. knows that the stages in the development of three categories of stars are based on mass: stars that have the approximate mass of our sun, stars that are two-to-three-stellar masses and develop into neutron stars, and stars that are five-to-six-stellar masses and develop into black holes

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