Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
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.
- 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.
- Daytime Astronomy for Elementary and Middle School Students
- The over-arching question addressed by these units is "Why do daylight hours vary in length where we live?" All activities have been arranged for convenience into three interchangeable units.
- Making Sundials: Observing and Using Shadows
- Students build sundials and observe changes in shadows over the course of one or more days.
- The Sun: An Introduction
- This lesson introduces the topic of the Sun. Students also begin making entries in their Science Journals.
Space Weather Fact
The most powerful solar flare in the last 500 years occurred on September 2, 1859 and was sighted by two astronomers who happened to be looking at the sun at exactly the right time!
