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The Sun and Its Effects on Earth

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.04.01

Unit Guide

Stellar Evolution and the Fate of Earth

Michael A. Harris

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Resources

Reading for Teachers

Feather Ralph M., PhD, Susan Leach Snyder, Dinah Zike. National Geographic, Mc Graw Hill, N. Y., New York, 2004.

Fraknoi, Andrew, David Morrison, and Sidney Wolff, Voyages Though The Universe, Saunders College Publishing, N.Y., New York, 2000.

Murphree, Tom and Mary K. Miller. Watching Weather: A Low Pressure Book about High Pressure Systems and Other Weather Phenomena. Henry Holt and Company, N. Y., New York, 1998.

http://www.astronomynotes.com/index.html

http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s3.htm#A1.2.1

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/GMC.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/dark-nebula

http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s3.htm#A1.2.2

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec11.html

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec17.html

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec19.html

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dwarfs.html

http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s11.htm

http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s12.htm

http://search1.discovery.com/search?site=schContent&proxystylesheet=sch&num=10&client=sch&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*&filter=0&q=astronomy

http://school.discovery.com/ontv/videoclips/astronomy1.html

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/universe/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0421_030421_deathofplanet_2.html

http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange1/02_1.shtml

Reading for Students

Discover Channel, Night Sky: An Explore Your World Handbook, Discover Books, New York, 1999

Feather Ralph M., PhD, Susan Leach Snyder, Dinah Zike. National Geographic, Mc Graw Hill, N. Y., New York, 2004.

Murphree, Tom and Mary K. Miller. Watching Weather: A Low Pressure Book about High Pressure Systems and Other Weather Phenomena. Henry Holt and Company, N. Y., New York, 1998.

http://school.discovery.com/ontv/videoclips/astronomy1.html

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/universe/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0421_030421_deathofplanet_2.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0406_050406_blackholes.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0524_050524_blackholes.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0619_030619_darkside.html

http://pulseplanet.nationalgeographic.com/ax/archives/01_sciencetemplate.cfm?programnumber=2506

http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange1/02_1.shtml

Materials for Classroom Use

Poster paper or construction paper

Markers, colored pencils or crayons

Textbook and related articles (See above for a list of readings for students)

Star chart

Graphing paper

Ruler

Copies of H-R diagrams (without stars plotted on it)

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