Web Resources for Teaching about the Sun

Latest NASA Mission Website for Educators OMG!

Cut your students space teeth using this website

Where to get UV sensitive beads -Educational Innovations

teachersource.com/

Exploring Magnetic Field Lines 

sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/materials/magnetic_field_lines.pdf

Register for Solar Week March March 19-23, 2012

http://www.solarweek.org

Solar Pizzas

sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/materials/solar_pizza.pdf

Sun Wise: K-8 Curriculum from EPA (free plus UV frisbee!)

www.epa.gov/sunwise/index.html

Exploring UV Light from the Sun (Energy Bead Inquiry)

sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/materials/UVdetector.pdf

Exploring Variables Using Paper Rockets (Inquiry Assessment)

NASA Paper Rocket Guide

Blast OFF

Living with a Star GEMS guide CD-ROM (Wow!)

ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/lws_gems

3D Sun- The Film

3dsunfilm.com

NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF)

www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html

NASA Sun-Earth Day Program (register as an educator to get annual Sun-Earth resource folder)

sunearthday.nasa.gov

Indigenous Ways of Knowing Aurora

Aurora Alive Resources-University of Alaska Fairbanks

NASA Space Weather Media Viewer

sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/spaceweather

NASA THEMIS mission classroom lessons

ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/classroom.html

Stanford Solar Center Activities for Educators

solar-center.stanford.edu/teachers

Marble-izing paper to look like surface of Sun

www.ehow.com/how_2122454_make-marbleized-paper.html

Exploring Magnetism Lesson Series (3D Magnetosphere)

cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/ExploringMagnetism

Teacher Lesson for 3-D Magnetosphere

Student Activity Guide for 3-D Magnetosphere

Why Does the Sun Shine

Song Activity Guide

Using Models to Support and Explain Scientific Data (Benchmark 2,6 Assessment)

Scale Model of Sun to Earth/Visible Spectrum

Magnetosphere Water Color Extravaganza

funart4kids.blogspot.com/2011/01/aurora-borealis.html

Origami Sun

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/info/Origami.pdf


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