Scope and Sequence
Course: Astronomy
Unit: Stellar Evolution/Stellar Explosion/Neutron Stars and Black
Holes/The Milky Way Galaxy and Galaxies
TEKS
Guiding Questions/
Assessment
Specificity
Designated Grading Period: 5th
Days to teach: 16 (A), 17 (B)
11 (A) identify the characteristics
of main sequence stars, including
surface temperature, age, relative
size, and composition
Surface Temperature
What are the
characteristics of main
sequence stars?
Describe the characteristics
of main sequence stars?
Vocabulary
Chapter Review
Questions
Age
Relative Size
Composition
Main Sequence
Stars
11 (B) characterize star formation
in stellar nurseries from giant
molecular clouds, to protostars, to
the development of main
sequence stars
Instructional
Strategies
How are stars born?
Is there a “smallest star?”
Molecular Clouds
What factors must a body
have to be classified as a
star?
Which force dominates the
formation of stars?
Protostars
Instructional
Demonstrations
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Resources/
Weblinks
Textbook: Chaisson and
McMillan Astronomy
Today, 6th Ed., AddisonWesley, 2005
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Multimedia
presentations
Main Sequence Stars
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.go
v/docs/science/know_l2/sta
rs.html
Chapter Review
Questions
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Instructional
Demonstrations
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Multimedia
presentations
11 (C) evaluate the relationship
between mass and fusion on the
dying process and properties of
stars
How are mass and
nuclear fusion of a dying
star related?
What are the basic
properties of the DT
diagram
Why is iron so important?
Nuclear Fusion
Why do so many stars
become red giants?
Nuclear Fission
Stellar Evolution
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Red Giants
DT Diagram
Revised Spring 2016
Chapter Review
Questions
Instructional Demons
Multimedia
presentations
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Red Giants
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.go
v/docs/ask_astro/answers/9
71016.html
Scope and Sequence
Course: Astronomy
Unit: Stellar Evolution/Stellar Explosion/Neutron Stars and Black
Holes/The Milky Way Galaxy and Galaxies
TEKS
Guiding Questions/
Assessment
Specificity
Designated Grading Period: 5th
Days to teach: 16 (A), 17 (B)
11 (D) differentiate among the
end states of stars, including
white dwarfs, neutron stars, and
black holes
White Dwarf
11 (E) compare how the mass and
gravity of a main sequence star
will determine its end state as a
white dwarf, neutron star, or black
hole
What is an end state of a
star?
What are the characteristics
of the end states of a star’s
death?
Are all end states of
various objects the same?
What are the
characteristics of the end
results of the death of a
star?
How do mass and gravity
of a main sequence star
help determines its end
state?
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies
Chapter Review
Questions
Textbook : Prepared
Powerpoints
Instructional
Demonstrations
Neutron Star
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.go
v/docs/science/know_l1/pu
lsars.html
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
How much mass must a star
have to become a black hole?
Resources/
Weblinks
Mass
Multimedia
presentations
White Dwarf Star
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.go
v/docs/science/know_l2/d
warfs.html
Chapter Review
Questions
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Gravity
Instructional
Demonstrations
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
11 (G) use the HertzsprungRussell diagram to plot and
examine the life cycle of stars
from birth to death.
How does the H-R
diagram represent the life
cycle of stars?
Plot the life cycle of a star on
the H-R diagram.
H-R diagram
Stellar Evolution
Describe the characteristics
of a star at a given location
on the H-R diagram.
Multimedia
presentations
Prepared Powerpoints
Chapter Review
Questions
Luminosity
Instructional
Demonstrations
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Revised Spring 2016
Hertzsprung-Russell
Diagram
http://casswww.ucsd.edu/a
rchive/public/tutorial/HR.h
tml
Scope and Sequence
Course: Astronomy
Unit: Stellar Evolution/Stellar Explosion/Neutron Stars and Black
Holes/The Milky Way Galaxy and Galaxies
TEKS
Guiding Questions/
Assessment
Specificity
Designated Grading Period: 5th
Days to teach: 16 (A), 17 (B)
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies
Resources/
Weblinks
Multimedia
presentations
12 (A) describe characteristics of
galaxies
What are the
characteristics of the
common galaxy types?
Use Hubble classification
scheme to classify galaxies.
Spiral Galaxy
ELPS:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.
us/rules/tac/chapter07
4/ch074a.html
2C: Question Answer
4J: Draw and Write
1C: Word Knowledge
Chapter Review
Questions
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Barred Spiral
Elliptical Galaxy
Irregular Galaxy
Instructional
Demonstrations
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Types of Galaxies
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.g
ov/docs/StarChild/universe
_level1/galaxies.html
Multimedia
presentations
12 (B) recognize the type,
structure, and components of our
Milky Way galaxy and location of
our solar system within it
12 (C) compare and contrast the
different types of galaxies,
including spiral, elliptical,
irregular, and dwarf.
Revised Spring 2016
What type of galaxy is
the Milky Way?
What do astronomers
know about the Milky
Way?
What differences exist
between the major
classifications of
galaxies?
Roughly where is our solar
system located in the Milky
Way?
Galactic core
Chapter Review
Spiral Arms
Instructional & Multimedia Demonstrations
What is at the center of our
galaxy?
Use Hubble classification
scheme to classify galaxies.
Spiral Galaxy
Barred Spiral
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Chapter Review
Questions
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
The Milky Way
http://casswww.ucsd.edu/a
rchive/public/tutorial/MW.
html
Textbook: Prepared
Powerpoints
Scope and Sequence
Course: Astronomy
Unit: Stellar Evolution/Stellar Explosion/Neutron Stars and Black
Holes/The Milky Way Galaxy and Galaxies
TEKS
Guiding Questions/
Assessment
Specificity
Designated Grading Period: 5th
Days to teach: 16 (A), 17 (B)
Vocabulary
Elliptical Galaxy
Instructional
Strategies
Instructional
Demonstrations
Irregular Galaxy
Astronomy Picture of
the Day
Multimedia
presentations
Revised Spring 2016
Resources/
Weblinks
Hubble Classification
System
http://www.edwinhubble.c
om/hubble_classification.h
tm