Jewels of the Night
The Jewels of the Night is a hands-on, teacher-tested activity for middle school and older students. Students measure the color and brightness of stars in the Jewelbox Cluster from a color image. They determine the age of the cluster by plotting their measurements in a color-brightness diagram. The activity develops classification and graphing skills and fosters observation, communication, and cooperative learning skills. Students are exposed to ideas about the nature of stars, temperature and color, stellar evolution, the time scales of astronomical phenomena, and how astronomers can determine the ages of objects in the universe.

I've Got Your Number
 In this lesson, students assess the journalistic value of numbers used in newspaper articles while learning about the significance of the Hubble telescope’s new data on the age of the universe.

The Physics Classroom
Tutorials, animations, sample problems

Aeronautics Related Activities, Experiments, and Lesson Plans

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