Stars

1. Stars

2. Part 1https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/galaxies/https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/lifecycleofstars/https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/blackholes/

3. Part 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurFmd8xDe0Just first 2 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01U7ZUKVW8ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3IgVidGjQkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1sDWjvgjM

4. What are stars made of? Stars are made of hot burning gases.

5. What colors can stars be?

6. Why are the stars different colors? The color of the star tells you its temperature. If you put a piece of metal in a fire, it would turn adark red first, then orange, next yellow, andfinally a bluish-whiteas it heated up.

7. The 2nd closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is over 4.2 light years away.

8. Part 3 If the link doesn’t work, copy and paste ithttps://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/activities/simulations/gr1/unitd.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/activities/simulations/gr5/unitd.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/activities/simulations/gr4/unitd.html

9. What happens to the stars during the daytime? They’re still there. You just can’t see them because the sun is so bright.

10. Our stars revolve around the center of the galaxy.

11. The North Star doesn’t move.It’s always in the north.

12. The North Star is on the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The 2 stars at the end of the Big Dipper always point to it.

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edzanKF4rTg&safe=active

15. Part 4https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/constellations/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm2MKez7atIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1-HFqt-6M

16. A group of stars that seems to form a picture is called a constellation.

17. There are 88 recognized constellations. Scientists don’t think of them as pictures. They just use them as sections of a sky map.

18. One of the most famous constellations is the Big Dipper.

19. The 12 signs of the zodiac are also famous constellations.

20. The 12 Zodiac signs seem to circle the Earth.

21. Aquarius

22. Aries

23. Cancer

24. Capricorn

25. Gemini

26. Leo

27. Libra

28. Pisces

29. Sagittarius

30. Scorpio

31. Taurus

32. Virgo

33. Orion is one of the easier constellations to find. Look for the 3 stars that make up his belt.

34. Draco the dragon

35. The constellation names we used were named by the Greeks and Romans thousands of years ago. They sat around the campfire telling stories about their heroes, gods, and godesses using the pictures in the sky.

36. Hercules

37. Asteroidshttps://www.brainpop.com/science/space/asteroids/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPjlX_1eiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DmkH7udc4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUnDwn0fN3g only look at #2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agdvt9M3NJA

38. Asteroids

39. Most asteroids are big chunks of rock. Many of them have a large amount of iron in them.

41. All of the asteroids glued together would still be less than ½ the size of our moon.

42. Ceres is the largest asteroid. 600 miles

43. Asteroids orbit the sun.

44. Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

45. Comets

46. Cometshttps://www.brainpop.com/science/space/cometshttps://www.brainpop.com/science/space/comets/quiz/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYIpU0DpZzM only first couple of minutes

47. A comet is like of a frozen gassy, rocky dustball.

48. A comet has a head and a tail.

49. The tail is the dust left after the other parts of the comet have evaporated.

50. Comets orbit around the sun.Its tail points away from the sun.