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Coronal Mass Ejection Animation See what happens to the Earth and the STEREO satellites during a coronal mass ejection.

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Exploring Magnetism

Exploring Magnetism A Teacher's Magnetism Guide for grades 6-9. This guide features two sessions with a total of seven activities to teach students about magnetic fields and electromagnetism.

  • A summary of this lesson for teachers is available here.
  • You can view .pdf files for this lesson here.
  • Download a simplified activity for grades 4-8 here (.pdf format, 374 KB).

Exploring Magnetism in the Solar Wind

Exploring Magnetism in the Solar Wind A Teacher's Magnetism Guide for grades 6-9. This guide features a session with three activities to teach students about the Sun, its solar wind, and the interplanetary magnetic field. Students act as STEREO IMPACT space science engineers designing an instrument to measure the interplanetary magnetic field.

  • A summary of this lesson for teachers is available here.
  • You can view .pdf files for this lesson here.

Exploring Magnetism in Solar Flares

Exploring Magnetism in Solar Flares A teacher's activity guide for grades 8-12. This guide features a session with 4 activities that explore magnetism on the Sun's surface leading to sunspots and Solar Flares. Students learn about these concepts using real data from the RHESSI spacecraft, use math, language, and communication skills.

  • A summary of this lesson for teachers is available here.
  • You can view .pdf files for this lesson here.

Sounds of Space

Sounds of Space Learn about converting observations of the Sun and Sun-Earth environment into sounds and hear these conversions.


Summer 2000 Solar Camp Visit

Summer 2000 Solar Camp Visit Here are pictures of David Glaser's Solar Campers' visit to the Space Sciences Laboratory in Berkeley.


Teacher Professional Development Workshops

Teacher Professional Development Workshops Learn more ways to teach about space in your classroom at the appropriate level (grades 1st-9th) while meeting science standards.


 

NASA's Space Math Page This web page contains problem sets for the Weekly Space Science Problem program. The goal of these problems is to teach students about space weather by using mathematics.