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Earth's Place in the Universe ESS1
ESS1-3 Stars Producing Elements
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ESS1-3
Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.
Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the way nucleosynthesis, and therefore the different elements created, varies as a function of the mass of a star and the stage of its lifetime.
Assessment Boundary: Details of the many different nucleosynthesis pathways for stars of differing masses are not assessed.
Printable activity 2
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Elements from STARS PREVIEW ACTIVITY 2
Vocab:
the Periodic Table
element
massive star
white dwarf
red giant
supernova
proton
neutron
nucleon
nuclear fission
Beryllium is made in stars like our Sun, but very little remains—why/how do you think the beryllium disappears?
Print a blank Periodic Table,
Use this Lumen Learning Massive Star source and use the information from the coloured Periodic Table (on the left) about massive stars
Put in the symbols for the elements in the correct position on the Periodic Table that are made in stars like our Sun (massive stars).
What element does it stop at--what is the heaviest element made in stars like our Sun?
Write down your ideas why massive stars do not make heavier elements--and share with others in your study group.
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