Sun-Earth Day 2007 presents: Living in the Atmosphere of the Sun
GENERAL SUN-EARTH CONNECTION LESSON PLANS
- All About the Sun
- From NASA's Quest's Learning Technologies Channel (at NASA Ames) and the Stanford Solar Center, learn more about the sun from this impressive archive of video clips and materials from past webcasts.
- Build a Spectroscope
- Have your students build a working spectroscope to the study the nature of light. Recommended for students grade 5 and over.
- Building a Simple Sundial
- This activity from NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center will show you how to construct a working sundial of your own! Visit Spanish Resources to view this activity (Construyendo un Reloj Solar) in Spanish
- Making a Sun Clock
- Let the Exploratorium show you how to build a working Sun Clock.
- Seeing the Invisible: Student Workbook
- This teacher's guide and student workbook provide you and your students with an opportunity to prove the existence of ultraviolet and infrared radiation coming from the Sun.
- Seeing the Invisible: Teacher Guide
- This teacher's guide and student workbook provide you and your students with an opportunity to prove the existence of ultraviolet and infrared radiation coming from the Sun.
- Solar Flip Book
- Students will make a flip book that shows the progression of two solar events on reversible sides of the flip book. Event choices include the sunspot cycle, differential rotation of the sun using sunspots, a total solar eclipse, progression of a coronal mass ejection, and a sungrazing comet.
- Solar Storms and You
- This series of six workbooks contains a variety of SUNsational, integrated, multidisciplinary activities for grades 7-9. I was produced by the IMAGE/POETRY Teacher and Students' Consortium.
- Solarscapes: Sunspots and Rotation
- You and your middle-school students will open up the Sun and explore phenomena most people have never seen before. Your students will calculate the period of the solar cycle and predict its shapes, and calculate the rotation period of the Sun.
- Sunbeams and Sundials
- Enjoy this unit based on the Space and Time gallery at the Liverpool Museum, with both formal and informal activities.
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