OBJECTIVE:  I will work with my colleagues to research several different stars during today's class.

I will use several different strategies to share that information with other team members during today's class.

CALENDAR:

Solar System Retakes are NEXT Thursday or Friday before school. Please arrive at 6:25 or so and the test will begin at 6:30

Please keep in mind my day is over at 11:30 so I'm not available for after school but I'm happy to meet with you any day before school for practice!

WORD FOR TODAY:

• solar nebula
• fusion
• nucleosynthesis
• Strong Force
• main sequence
• Black Holes
• Neutron Stars*
• White Dwarf Stars*
• Brown Dwarf Stars*
• Red Dwarf Stars
• Yellow Stars
• Red Giant Stars
  
• Blue Giant Stars

* are not actual stars since there is no fusion going on

WORK O' THE DAY:

Test Returns -- Solar System tests are in!

Please review the following graphics with your team:

#1: Red dwarf

#2: Yellow star

#3: Blue giant

Please work with your team to sketch the stages of the sun and see how well you can diagram how it is that the sun will turn into a red giant star, and what happens when it does that.

Now please discuss, what will happen to the sun AFTER the red giant phase? Why won't it go boom?

It might be helpful for us to get a better idea of the size/scale of objects in our solar system vs various star types. THIS video shows those objects to scale!

Now let's take some time to dig into one type of star. Please do just a wee bit of information about a specific star that meets the requirements for the star type you chose.

We'll do several exercises so that you can share your information with other folks in your team and other folks in the class