Resources

Education Links

• Goddard Space Flight Center Educator Resource Center
• Goddard Visitor Center
• StarGazer
• Stanford Solar Center
• Science Education Gateway
• Project 2061
• Ilws Publications

Programs

• Sun-Earth Connection

Professional Organizations

• Association for Astronomy Education
• Astronomy Society of the Pacific
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• National Science Teachers Association

Online Tools

• NOVA Sun lab
• Camilla SWx Project
• Sun Slider

Activities

• Solar Clock
• Exploring UV Light from the Sun
• Matching Pairs Activity - pdf download
• Change Pairs - pdf download
• Magnetic Fields of the Earth and Sun - pdf download
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Resolution Matters
• NASA Sun Earth Day, Magnetic Storms lessons: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2010/getinvolved/ed.php
• NASA Sun Earth Day, Space Weather Action Center lessons: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/swac/educators/activities.php
• Spectrographs
• SID Space Weather Monitors
• Experimenting with UV Beads
• What Color is the Sun activities
• HowBig/Far/Hot/Old
• Sun Track Model
• Scale Model

Presentations

• The Dynamic Sun
• 2009 PIMS - Goddard Space Flight Center
• Kenestetic Astronomy
• Garden Sundials
• Sundial measurements by latitude
• Sundial Construction
• The Nature of Science
• Solar Storms & Satellites
• Satellite data set
• Sundial measurements by latitude
• Aurora, Substorms, and THEMIS

Lessons

• Elementary Learning Unit - The Science of the Sun
• Secondary Learning Unit - The Science of the Sun
• NOVA Sun lab