ERIC ED455133: Living with a Star: An Educator Guide with Activities in Sun-Earth Sciences.

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Living with a Star: An Educator Guide with Activities in
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Sun-Earth Sciences.
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Educational Resources; Elementary Secondary Education;
*Science Activities; *Science Instruction; *Space Sciences
IDENTIFIERS
*Earth; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; *Sun
ABSTRACT
This educator guide is designed to provide references and
resource materials to K-12 educators about the connection between the sun and
the earth. Chapters include:
"Common Questions and Answers";
(1)
(2)
"Sun-Earth Connection Missions";
"Website Resources";
"NASA CORE
(3)
(4)
Materials";
"NASA Educator Workshop Resources";
"Activities";
(5)
(6)
(7)
"Glossary"; and (8)
"Additional NASA Resources." (YDS)
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About This
Educator's Guide
The Sun-Earth Connection
This guide is designed to
Education Forum NASNGSFC
provide educators with a
UCB/SSL
quick reference to materials
and resources that are useful
for understanding the
connections between
the Sun and Earth.
What is SECEF?
What is SEC?
Fundamental and applied research in
The Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) is part of NASA's
the Sun-Earth Connection (SEC) will lay Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program, a partnership
between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of
the groundwork for the future:
California, Berkeley's Space Science Laboratory. Our two primary
goals are to disseminate educational resources related to the Sun
To advance space science, we will
and its connection to Earth and to facilitate the involvement of space
continue to investigate the basic process-
scientists in education.
http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu
es that cause solar variations, as well as
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov
their consequences for the solar system.
To ensure the safety of humans traveling
from Earth, we will seek to understand
and forecast the space environments with
which they must cope.
Contact the Sun-Earth
Connection Education Forum
To take the first steps toward voyaging
to nearby stars, we will carry out robot-
interstellar space
of
exploration
ic
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
beyond the heliosphere.
Isabel Hawkins Forum Co-Director
Karen Meyer Forum Co-Manager
To meet these objectives, the SEC theme
[email protected]
is dedicated to understanding the physi-
[phone]
cal processes that power the Sun and link
the Sun and Earth. The basic physics con-
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
cerns the behavior of primarily electrified
Rich Vondrak Forum Co-Director
material and its interaction with magnet-
Jim Thieman Forum Co-Manager
fields on the Sun, in interplanetary
ic
[email protected]
space, at the Earth and planets, and in
[phone]
the local galactic environment.
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Educator Resources for Understanding
Connections Between the Sun and Earth
4
Common Questions and Answers
A listing of sites that answer some of the most common
Sun-Earth Connection questions.
Sun-Earth Connection Missions
5
Website listings for spacecraft and instruments currently
studying the Sun-Earth Connection.
10
Website Resources
Educational solar sites listed by grade level.
NASA CORE Materials
11
Websites offering NASA posters, CDs
and other educational materials.
Activities: Observing the Sun for Yourself
12
Hands-on activities for use in the classroom.
13
Projecting the Sun
14
Using Remote Solar Telescopes
14
Using Your Own Telescope
15
Observing Solar Eclipses
16
Sunspot Drawings
17
NASA Educator Workshop Resources
An annotated listing of sites that provide educator training and educator materials.
Glossary
18
Sun-Earth Connection terms and their definitions.
Additional NASA Resources
19
Links to NASA education and public dissemination sites.
Solar image taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope aboard the SOHO satellite.
Image from the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov:80/sdac.html
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Como Questions and Answers
Links to answer the most frequently asked questions.
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Where can I find classroom
ouffevcia
activities about solar
storms and the Sun?
http://www.auroras2000.com
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach
Would you like to
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/
explore the Earth's
http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/
How much do you
magnetosphere?
know about the Sun?
Would you like to hear
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry
interviews with Sun-Earth
http://solar-center. stanford.edu
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Connection scientists?
Education/Intro.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots
Where can I "hear" the
How can I participate in a weekly
Earth's magnetosphere?
live chat with a space scientist?
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/sso/chats/sched.html
Where can I
Experience
What does
find out about
a total solar
the Sun look
solar events that
eclipse!
like today?
my class can
participate in?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse
http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://www.solarevents.org
images/latest.html
How can I tour the Sun and learn
How
about our nearest star from the inside?
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affect
http://solarphysics.montana.edu/YPOP
astrona
What as the kotest [Thews
http://flick.gsfc.nasa.gov
an Space weather?
http://see.msfc.nasa.gov
http://www.spaceweathercom
nez
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html
I find out
Where can
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/drsoho.html
about solar flares?
New Launches
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/hessi epo/
http://spacescience.nasa.gov
What is Solar
How do solar storms affect
our electric power systems?
Maximum?
http://wwwmpelectric.com/storms/
http://www.solarmax2000.corn
(middle) Solar edipse image from Fred Espenak's Eclipe
Images: (top)Earth's Magnetosphere illustration
(bottom) Solar prominence image
from Big Bear Solar Observatory
courtesy of NASA's Sun-Earth Connection.
Home page at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
hnp://w9,vw.bbso.njit.edu/
hnp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.10m1
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http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/missions.html
Mission Education Page
Science Objective
NASA SEC Mission
Munch Date)
Cosmic and Heliospheric
(1997 -
Study of the physics and chemistry
ACE
Learning Center
of the solar corona, the solar wind,
Advanced Composition Explorer
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/ace/
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov
and the interstellar medium.
Cluster II
http://isip.gsfc.nasa.gov/
(2000 -)
Study of Earth's magnetic field, electric
http://sci.esa.int/cluster
surroundings, and the effects of the
istp/outreach
solar wind on the Earth's protective
magnetosphere.
(1990 - 1991) To Find out how Earth's radiation
CRRES
Combined Release and
environment affects microelectronic
circuitry; the composition of the Earth's
Radiation Effects Satellite
No Education Page
http://www.ball.com/aerospace/crres.html
radiation belts; the magnetosphere
interacts with the ionosphere.
(1996 -)
How the particles and fields
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
FAST
Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer
in the upper atmosphere change
during an aurora.
http://plasma2.sstberkeley.edu/fast
-)
Genesis
http://www.genesismission. The search for origins of the universe
(2001
org/educate
through the study of solar wind and
http://www.genesismission.org
also visit -
fusion chemistry.
http://sun.ipl.nasa.gov/
-)
Geospace Electrodynamic
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
GEC will determine how the ionosphere-
(2008
Connections (GEC)
educ out/educ out.htm
thermosphere (I-T) system reponds to
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
magnetosphere forcing and how the
I-T system is dynamically coupled to the
missions/gec/gec.htm
magnetosphere.
-)
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Study of the magnetotail region and
GEOTAIL
(1992
istp/outreach/
the change over time, and how the
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/geotail
magnetotail, plasma sheet, and
magnetopause interact.
(2001 -)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Study of solar flares, the effect on
HESSI
hessi epo/
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
electron and proton acceleration and
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/
the origin of energy for solar flares.
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http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/educators/missions.html
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.goy/educators/missions.html
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Mission Education Page
Science Objective
NASA SEC Mission
(Launch Date)
(2000 )
http://irnage.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Study of how the magnetosphere is
IMAGE
I
poetry/
changed by its interaction with the solar
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora
wind; how plasmas are transported
Global Exploration
from place to place within the magne-
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
tosphere; the loss of magnetospheric
plasmas from the system during storms.
To provide global imaging of the
(2001 -
IMEX
Inner Magnetosphere Explorer
aurora, ring current, and plasmaspheric
populations. IMEX will provide in situ
http://ham.space.umn.edu/spacephys/
measurements, particularly of electric
No Education Page
i mex. html
fields and ring current populations, and
cross-calibration, while TWINS and
IMAGE will provide a context for
interpreting the IMEX measurements.
(2009 )
IM
A global network of satellites that will
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
gather knowledge of how the ionosphere
Ionospheric Mappers
Iws_education.htm
behaves as a system, linking solar
http://lws.gsfc. nasa.gov/
energy with Earth's atmosphere.
Iws_missions_im.htm
IMP-8
IMP-8 measures the magnetic fields,
(1973
)
Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
plasmas, and energetic charged particles
(e.g., cosmic rays) of Earth's
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/imp-8.html
magnetotail and magnetosheath and
No Education Page
of the near-Earth solar wind. IMP-8 is
one of the longest running solar-terres-
trial spacecrafts. The year 2001 marks
this spacecraft's 28th year.
Study of the relationship between
INTERBALL
(1995
)
processes in the geotail and the particle
http://www. iki. rssi. ru /interball. html
acceleration above the auroral oval;
No Education Page
how solar flares and X-ray bursts
affect the magnetotail and cusp regions.
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Participating Missions:
ISTP
(mutiple missions)
WIND
International Solar-Terrestrial
istp/outreach/
POLAR
CLUSTER II
SOHO
Physics Program
GEOTAIL
1
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
(find these listed alphabetically)
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Participating Missions:
LWS
(mutiple missions)
IM
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SDO
Iws_education.htm
Solar Sentinels
RBM
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov
(find these listed alphabetically)
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http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/educators/missions.html
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/missions.html
Mission Education Page
Science Objective
NASA SEC Mission
(Launch Date)
,
(2010 -)
http://sip.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MC
This group of nano-satellites, will
1
Magnetospheric Constellation
educ out/educ out.htm
enable us to determine the dynamics
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/missions/
of the magnetotail, understand its
mc/mc.him
responses to the solar wind, and reveal
the linkages between local and
global processes.
MMS
(2006 -)
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MMS will quantitatively determine the
Magnetospheric MultiScale
educ out/eafuc out.htm
geoeffectiveness of solar processes on
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/missions/
the geospace system by exploring the
fundamental physics underlying the
mms/mms. htm
plasma processes that control
magnetospheric dynamics.
Polar
(1996 -)
http: / /isip.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Study of the role of the ionosphere
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/
istp/outreach/
in geomagnetic storms; the properties
of the particles and fields near the
Earth's polar regions and how is
energy from the magnetosphere is
deposited into the upper atmosphere
and auroral regions.
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
(2008 -)
RBM
To understand the origin and dynamics
Reaiation Belt Mappers
of Earth's radiation belts and determine
Iws_education.htm
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
the evolution of the penetrating radiation
during magnetic storms.
Iws_missions_rbm.him
http://surya.umd.edu/www/
SAMPEX
(1992 - )
Study of how high-energy particles
Solar Anomalous and
entering the magnetosphere affect
outreach.html
Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
Earth's upper atmosphere; the isotopic
http://surya.umd.edu/www/sampex.html
composition of solar flares, and how
cosmic rays are affected by the solar
activity cycle.
SDO
(2006 -)
http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
To observe the Sun's dynamics and
Solar Dynamics Observatory
Iws_education.htm
understand the nature and source of
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
variations, from the stellar core to the
Iws_missions_sdo.htm
turbulent solar atmosphere.
Sentinels
(2009 -)
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The Sentinels will observe the global
http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Iws education.htm
structure of the inner heliosphere,
follow the propagation of solar eruptive
Iws_missions_sentinels.htm
events to Earth, and trace geomagnetic
disturbances back to their solar sources.
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