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SUN-EARTH DAYS 2001 -- April 27-28
Join us in a national celebration of the Sun, the space around Earth, and how both affect life on our planet. In classrooms, museums, planetaria, and at NASA centers -- not to mention hundreds of National Astronomy Day celebrations in your area -- we plan to have a blast sharing stories, images, and activities related to the Sun-Earth connections in our solar system.
MAKING THE SUN-EARTH CONNECTION PRESENTATION
Download ready-made presentations that introduce key Sun-Earth Connection concepts. Presentations have been tailored to the following grade levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
Science Presentations from ISTP Workshops for Educators
Links to PDF, HTML, and Powerpoint slides of high-school level presentations on various aspects of Sun-Earth science, as offered by NASA scientists at workshops in 1998-2000.
Ten Things You Thought You Knew About Sun-Earth Science
A list of common and uncommon, famous and infamous misconceptions about solar-terrestrial physics...
HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE ACTIVITIES AND LESSON PLANS
Turn your classroom, museum, or home into a space physics lab...
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Elementary School (K-5)
Northern Lights and Solar Sprites
Modeling the Sun
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Middle School (6-9)
Solarscapes -- middle-school lesson plans about solar cycles, rotation, and dynamics
Seeing the Invisible -- lessons about the light of the Sun (PDF documents)
Solar Storms and You -- Math and science lessons
Solar Flip Book
Build a Spectroscope
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High School (9-12)
Coronal Mass Ejections & Their Effect on Earth A Student Activity Magnetic Field Activities for the High School Classroom
Measuring the Distance to the Sun
RadioJove -- build a radio experiment to study the Sun and Jupiter
Sunspots -- reader and activities
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General
Make your own sundial
Build your own pinhole camera/projector
ISTP Puzzles and Games
Observing the Sun for Yourself (download the PDF document)
And for more background reading on Sun-Earth Science, go here
NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
NASA Goddard Education Programs
NASA Spacelink -- Aeronautics and Space Resources for Educators
For Scientists Who Want to Engage in EPO
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