Invite your young writers to take the reins with writing dialogue. Using two characters of their own creation, kids work with partners and then individually to write short conversations.

Pupils often wonder how we know the distance to various stars. Starting with a thought experiment and progressing to a physical experiment, they determine the brightness and distance to various stars. The evaluation requires...

In this Solar System worksheet, 5th graders demonstrate knowledge of parts of the Solar System. Students unscramble letters to list these parts.

Students observe pictures taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. From a given website, students observe images of the Einstein Cross, Black Eye Galaxy, Hoag's Object, merging and interacting galaxies and more. This lesson plan gives a...

Students explore how to visually identify asteroids in SDSS images. They are able to explain that stars are so far away that they do not appear to move, even over the course of a human lifespan. Students identify the location of most...

In this interactive prepositions worksheet, students practice using prepositions in sentences. Students choose the correct preposition for each blank in the passage. There are fifteen in all.

Students learn their addresses and gain a sense of connection between their neighborhood and the rest of the world and the universe.

Students receive balloons representing the "Life Cycle of the Stars." As the attached script is read, students follow the directions for the color of balloon they are given. Students chart the results for their star. They plot data from...

Students explore universe, and examine how big it really is and how scientists measure the distances or sizes of things by estimating sizes of different objects and reading and writing numbers in scientific notations.

Provides a general overview of spiral galaxies, including descriptions of the different classes of spiral galaxy.

Black holes seem to be a constant point of debate for astronomers. This article confirms the theory that black holes can help form massive stars and gives more support to the idea that black holes play a big role in galaxy formation....

Black holes seem to be a constant point of debate for astronomers. This article confirms the theory that black holes can help form massive stars and gives more support to the idea that black holes play a big role in galaxy formation....

This complete resource will help students to improve their understand of space exploration. Includes images of the universe, galaxies, stars and planets.

This journey will help you solve big questions about the universe. You will be able to see beyond human capabilities and will learn what scientists are discovering.

This site examines the black hole as an object in astrophysics. Delve into this comprehensive resource that covers this concept from its history, to qualitative physics, the reality of black holes, mathematical physics and more.

From ABC News in Science, Heather Catchpole's article explores issues related to the collision of galaxies and the subsequent formation of black holes.

Many of the objects you can see in the night sky are stars, large objects in space that produce light. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains more than 100 billion stars. Stars are so far away that their light does not reach us for years....

From something as familiar as our bodies to things vast as the formation of galaxies, we can observe the process of self-assembly, or when unordered parts come together in an organized structure. Skylar Tibbits explains how we see...

This page details the life cycle of a star, and includes information on medium-sized and massive stars, plus a glossary and a question.

The image entitled, "A New Star Cluster" shows the formation of a new group of stars located in the Milky Way galaxy. The text below the image goes into detail on describing the various specifics of the image.