SunEarth Connection: Kindergarten through Second Grade
Solar Cookies
Kids can make models of the sun using 4" sugar cookies, different
colored icing (indicates different internal zones (core, radiative
zone, convective zone, photosphere), sprinkles (represents granularity
of photosphere), and red (coronal loops) and black (delimits cutaway
of sun) string licorice. Submitted By: Lou Mayo, Sligo Creek Elementary Astronomy Club
It's a multi-facetted application that allows you to keep abreast of
status reports, news and announcements of events taking place at ESA
Science and the most recent near-real-time images from SOHO. I don't know of a NASA equivalent but many of the projects are joint with NASA. For those interested in Solar observations, there's less chance of missing exciting solar storms (like the one that's been going on for the last few days) because the screensaver updates its images whenever you're online.
Download it here: http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=34651 Submitted By: Mike Cripps, Neatherd High School Astronomy Club
Sun-Earth Connection PowerPoint Presentation
This is a PowerPoint presentation I created to teach the basics of the
Sun-Earth Connection to elementary and middle-school students. It contains
images and information to help students learn about the Sun, the Earth's
magnetosphere, and the Sun's connection to such events on Earth as
auroras, disruptions in telecommunications on Earth, and other related
events.
Sun-Earth Connections.ppt Size: 1.43Mb Submitted By: Dorian Janney, Watkins Mill High School Astronomy Club