Unit 3: How to make Elements Heavier than Helium

Become a Specialist!

As you may have noticed, we only touched on how the primordial formation of Hydrogen and Helium came about. Here's your chance to learn more about how heavier elements formed in the universe! Pick one of the processes below and take a look at some of the materials. As you read, keep these questions in-mind:

• Which elements formed through this mechanism?

• How does this mechanism fuse nuclei together to create heavier elements?

After you're done reading, access this jamboard and create a new slide. Answer these two questions on the slide and two new things you learned below it.

General Resources on BBN

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpcUohHees

• https://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/bbn.html

At the beginning of this Unit, you were tasked with posting a question you have about the Early Universe and Nucleosynthesis to this jamboard. Take a look at it again: was your question answered? 

• If your question was answered, write an answer to it with an orange sticky note. 

• If your question wasn't answered, change the color of your sticky note with your question to yellow. Then, try to post an answer to someone else's question with an orange sticky note.