Other Activities to Try
Sensory Bin ExampleActivities for Younger Learners
- 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."
- Nucleosynthesis with playdough: This is a fun activity from Pale Blue Marble.
- 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.