Since we learned that our sun is a star, our questions led us to learn more about other types of stars. We learned that stars are mostly made of gas. We used a helium balloon to illustrate our stars float in space.
We illustrate the formation of stars using paper clips and magnet wands. We used magnet wands to illustrate gravity and how it swirls around in space and attracts dust and gas to form a star.
We learned that there are millions of stars in the Solar System. To our surprise, the sun is not the biggest or hottest star!
We illustrated the different color and temperatures of stars: red is a cool star, yellow is a hot star, white is a hotter star, a blue star is the hottest.
We created stars and hung them from the ceiling of our classroom.
As well as added stars to our Solar System documentation outside of our classroom.
After visiting a traveling planetarium at our school, we decided as a class to create our very own planetarium. Using two large cardboard boxes, we painted the inside black to represent the night sky. We then decided to paint the outside a combination of blue and black.
We planned where to place the stars using a white crayon. We created the constellations The Big Dipper and Little Dipper onto our planetarium.
Carefully, we poked twinkle lights into the planetarium to represent stars.
At last, the planetarium was complete! We loved gazing at the beautiful stars from our very own classroom!
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