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SUNSPOTS Lesson Plan Resource Guide

Solar Scientists: ___________________________
Date:___________

SUNSPOTS
Solar Research Proposal

Choose one part of this section and create a research program to investigates some aspect of  sunspots or another solar phenomenon that can affect the earth.

• Write about the goals of your research. What do you want to find out? Why?
  
• Do you have a hypothesis or model? How will the results of this investigation support or disconfirm this hypothesis/model?
  
• If you do not have a model or hypothesis, what will you measure, and how would these measurements be used?
  
•  Describe the instruments you would need, such as a solar telescope or satellite equipped to make images in (visible, x-ray, radio, ultraviolet) light. 
  
• How does this research rely on what is already known about the sun? 
  
• Project the results into the future to describe the research's eventual impact on science and humanity.