| Education Sites of NASA Missions: |
 High
Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI):
Good student activities can be found here. |
Follow
the Sun:
Find out what is happening on the Sun, to the solar wind, and in interplanetary
space. |
International
Solar Terrestrial Physics:
There are many interesting resources on this site. It includes many movies, educational
activities, the Geospace classroom, and the Storms from the Sun on-line poster
(also available in Spanish). |
Sun-Earth
Media Viewer:
The Sun-Earth Media Viewer is a Flash-based interactive tool kit built to support
the major public outreach initiatives of NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education
Forum. Requires
Flash Player |
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) Educational
Resources:
These pages are intended to provide the general public, and specifically
students and their teachers, with some tools to learn more about the Sun
and about the TRACE program. You'll find some basic information such as
a graphical model of the Sun as well as a spectacular image gallery and
set of movies. |
POETRY:
POETRY is the official Education and Public Outreach program associated with
the NASA Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Auroral Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite
program. It has an extensive set of images as well as classroom activities.
Seasons and Timekeeping.
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Reasons
for the Seasons:
A nice one-page summary on seasons with some diagrams can be found at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as part of the CoVis Project. |
A
Walk though Time:
This site is an on-line exhibit from the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST). Includes information on calendars and the evolution of clocks. |
Analemmas:
Have you ever seen the figure-8 on a globe and wondered what it is? If so, go to the analemma web site. |
Official
Time:
Here you'll find the official US Time (accurate to about a second) and some instructive
exhibits about time. |
US
Naval Observatory Tables:
Contains numerous tables on seasons, eclipses, positions of the Sun and Moon,
Sunrise and Sunset, moonrise and moonset. Also has twilight time from just about
any location and the phases of the Moon from the years 1700-2015. |
THEMIS:
Learn about NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions
During Substorms) Mission. View the gallery or check out classroom activities. |
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