MultiSensory+Lesson



** Multisensory Lesson Plan **
 * by: ( Jana Hailey ) **

Title of Lesson: Life of a Star

Grade Level: 6th-7th

Objective(s): Students will recognize that a star has a Life Cycle and can be identified in their Life Cycle by color and size.

Time: One week
 * ** KTAV ** || ** Activity Description ** ||
 * ** Kinesthetic ** || Students will work in groups to create their illustrations and/or projects. Students will use the interactive internet site: []

Students may make models of the stars in the different stages of their lives. Appropriate for ELL/ESL. ||
 * ** Tactual ** || As an alternative to the illustration of a star’s life cycle, the student may choose to write a poem, report, “Family Tree”, or act out how a star might feel in each stage of its life.

Appropriate for ELL/ESL. ||
 * ** Auditory ** || Watch the YouTube Video with auditory explanation of the life cycle of stars: []

Class and group discussions of the concepts provided below.

Appropriate for ELL/ESL. ||
 * ** Visual ** || Provide charts as pictured below to visualize the life cycle of a star. Use the internet site [] to view animations of life cycles of stars.

Watch the YouTube video [] which relates the star’s life cycle to music.

Illustrate the life cycle of stars through drawn illustrations, photos collected, PowerPoint, or models relating the star’s life through size and color.

Appropriate for ELL/ESL. ||


 * The Life Cycle of Stars **


 * Discussions: **

Discuss that stars can live for billions of years. A star is born when an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas collapses until it is hot enough to burn nuclear fuel (producing tremendous amounts heat and radiation). As the nuclear fuel runs out (in about 5 billion years), the star expands and the core contracts, becoming a giant star which eventually explodes and turns into a dim, cool object (a black dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, depending on its initial mass). The largest stars have the shortest life span (still billions of years); more massive stars burn hotter and faster than their smaller counterparts. Relate how a star’s life cycle can relate to that of the human life cycle.

A star will become either a black dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, depending on how massive it was. .
 * Fate of a Star**:
 * Sun-like Stars** (Mass under 1.5 times the mass of the Sun) --> Red Giant --> Planetary Nebula -->White Dwarf --> Black Dwarf
 * Huge Stars** (Mass between 1.5 to 3 times the mass of the Sun) --> Red SuperGiant --> Supernova --> Neutron Star
 * Giant Stars** (Mass over 3 times the mass of the Sun) --> Red SuperGiant --> Supernova --> Black Hole


 * Posters **