National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun-Earth Day 2010: Magnetic Storms
K-5 SUN-EARTH CONNECTION LESSON PLANS
- Dancing Lights
- Dancing Lights provides a set of five activities that allows students in Grades 3 through 5 to explore the beauty, science and mythology of the aurora creatively through art and writing. Developed through the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Authors: Emiy CoBabe-Ammann, Erin Wood, Therese Possel, and Kate Becker
- Why do Magnets Work?
- Basic magnetism for the grades K-2. This Activity demonstrates whether or not a magnet can pick up objects.
- Create an Edible Model of the Sun
- Studying Our Scintillating Sun: Students will construct an edible model of the Sun denoting surface and interior feature.
- The Sun: An Introduction
- This lesson introduces the topic of the Sun. Students also begin making entries in their Science Journals.
- Our Star: The Sun
- This is a unit on the Sun that includes a step by step investigation for the younger student to understand our place in the solar system, using relative size and scaling, rotation and revolution and a number of assessment tools. The individual lessons contain work sheets to give on-going feedback on student comprehension.
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
- Space Math@NASA
- The goal of these problems is to teach students about astronomy and space science by using mathematics and real-world problems.
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NASA Fact
Depending on your rate and direction of motion, a pure magnetic field can be turned into an electric field and vice versa.