Interactive Models
What Elements are in Your Body?
Overview
This interactive guides students through exploring how stars create the elements that make up the universe and life itself. Students will be able to identify the key elements in their bodies that were created from exploding stars.
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Divona
Materials Required
Resources Needed Per Student:
Resources Needed Per Group:
- Computer/Tablet
- Internet Access
- Link to the "What Elements are in Your Body?" Interactive Slide Deck
Directions
Remember to never look directly at the Sun without proper safety equipment.
Use the slide deck to complete the activity.
- Open the "What Elements are in Your Body?" Interactive Slide Deck.
- Use the slides in edit mode in order to manipulate the slides.
Teacher Note
Teachers who are interested in receiving the answer key, please complete the Teacher Key Request and Verification Form. We verify that requestors are teachers prior to sending access to the answer keys as we’ve had many students try to pass as teachers to gain access.
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
- PS1A: Structure and Properties of Matter
- PS1C: Nuclear Processes
- ESS1A: The Universe and its Stars
- ESS1B: Earth and the Solar System
- ESS2A: Earth Materials and Systems
Crosscutting Concepts:
- Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
- Systems and System Models
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Developing and Using Models
- Students be able to identify the key elements in their bodies created in stars.
- Students will be able to describe how massive stars create the elements that make up the universe and life itself.
- How do stars create the elements that make up the universe and life itself?
- How is the periodic table a map of the history of our universe?
- Internet Required
- One-to-a-Group
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Grade Band
- 6-8
- 9-12
Time
- 50 minutes
Visualization Tool
NGSS Three Dimensional Learning
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