Sensory Bin: Keep your black base from the Big Bang week (black beans, pom poms, etc.) and add glow-in-the-dark stars. Give your learner tongs for fine motor practice as they pick them up. Write letters or numbers on the stars and turn it into a matching game or scavenger hunt game.
Star Soup: Use a bowl as "space." Add yellow/white pompoms (hydrogen), red/orange beads (helium), and foil bits/pipe cleaners (heavier elements). Stir to make "star soup." Optional: pour it out onto black paper to be a "supernova explosion."
Life Cycle of a Star Flip Book: Use the printable in lesson resources to create your own flipbook of how stars form.
Star in a Box:Use this interactive tool to explore more about stars. Notice how the mass changes the brightness, main sequence, and temperature. Compare different types of stars to our own Sun.
PheT Build an Atom Simulator:Explore more about atoms and the periodic table with this simulator. It even has a built-in game.
