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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Espectros Estelares Modulo Ii Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will study the composition of stars. You also will be able to classify them through the virtual observatory.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Evolucion Estelar Modulo Iii Unidad 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will study the birth, life and death of stars.
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Fases Finales De La Estrellas Modulo Iii Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you will learn about the final stages of the life of massive stars.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Fuentes De Energia Estelar Modulo Iii Unidad 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit you will learn about stellar energy sources .
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Medio Interestelar Modulo Vi Unidad 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will learn about the interstellar extinction and study about the different types of nebulae and supernova.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Nuestra Galaxia, Llamada via Lactea Mod Vii Unit 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about our galaxy, their mass and the evolution of the various theories about their conception.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Cuasares Y Otras Galaxias Activas Modulo Vii Unit 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you can learn about the active galaxies, quasars and the effect of the gravitational lens.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Las Galaxias Modulo Vii Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you can learn about galaxies, their morphology classification, masses, distances, etc.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Una Estrella Llamada Sol Modulo Iv Unidad 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will study the structure and composition of the star closest to us: the Sun.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Sol Activo Modulo Iv Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will learn about the solar cycle and study the possible influence of solar cycles on the Earth's climate.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Estrellas Binarias Modulo v Unidad 1

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will learn the different types of binary stars.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Estrellas Binarias Y Variables Modulo v Unidad 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will study about Novae and Supernovae and will learn about the evolution of the binary system.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Estrellas Variables Modulo v Unidad 3

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module you will learn about variable stars. Here you will find a large gallery of images.
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Other

Antique Telescope Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage for the Antique Telescope Society. The page contains information about the organization, notes and images of antique telescopes, selected journal articles, and links to outside resources dealing with astronomy and...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Tycho Brahe

For Students 9th - 10th
A great overview of the life of astronomer Tycho Brahe from Wikipedia Encyclopedia. This article discusses his contributions to the world of astronomy, and his building of his observatory called Uraniborg.
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Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Observaciones Y Modelos en Astronomia

For Students 6th - 8th
How does the length of the day change? How does the height of the sun change? Do we always see the same star? The answer to these questions and different observations about the sun, the moon and the stars that we can do from earth can be...
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Activity
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Astronomia Para Ninas Y Ninos

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn basic astronomy and travel through space. After you finish the lessons you can take the evaluation to obtain the clues needed to play the fun space games.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Universe, an Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Start with the questions all students ask: How big is the universe, how far away are the planets and stars, how did they form and when, how do they move and why? Build on their natural curiosity. The Smithsonian, in cooperation with...
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Website
Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Red Giant Star Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes how a star becomes a red giant, the structure of a red giant, core-helium fusion, lifetime predictions, and the position on the HR diagram.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: The Doppler Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia article on the Doppler effect provides an explanation on what it is, information on the first analyzation, and its use in the field of astronomy and radar detection.
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Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Education: Science, Art, and Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six different on-line lectures, with accompanying lessons and project ideas, that discuss the link between art and science.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do We Study the Stars?

For Students 9th - 10th
Yuan-Sen Ting takes us into deep space to show how astronomers study the stars beyond our reach. [4:46]
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Tycho Brahe, the Scandalous Astronomer

For Students 9th - 10th
Dan Wenkel dives into the history behind 16th century astronomer, Tycho Brahe explaining how he continued to inspire intrigue even after his death. [4:08]
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Arcturus or the Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine M. Sedgwick

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Arcturus, or, The Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1865), a fictional story based on factual scientific information.