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RESOURCES
Background resources on the sun and sunspots are numerous. Below
are links to a few informative Web sites, organized by topic. A
number of additional electronic and print resources are given in the
Sunspots
lesson
Bibliography page
How the Sun Works
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Viewing the
Sun in different parts of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- What's
the Sun Doing Lately? From
the Yohkoh Mission Public Outreach Page: Information about and
views of the sun in different wavelengths of light.
- Do
You See What I See? From
the Yohkoh Mission Public Outreach Page: A lesson about
astronomical imaging using different color filters.
- The
Sun, A Pictorial Introduction From the High Altitude
Observatory, a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
This collection of slides serves as an excellent introduction to the
study of the sun, however the text is written at a college level.
You may want to adapt the slide show to make it appropriate for a middle or high school
classroom.
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How Solar
Activity Affects The Earth
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Data images used in this lesson were provided by the Yohkoh
Public Outreach program.
Sunspots was developed by the Exploratorium,
in partnership with the Center
for Science Education at the Space
Sciences Laboratory (CSE@SSL), University of California, Berkeley, as part
of NASA's Science
Education Gateway Project.
Science experts: Dr. David Dearborn and Dr. George Fisher.
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