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Turn your classroom, museum, or home into a space physics lab...

General
Observing the Sun for Yourself (download PDF document)

CERES S'COOL Project
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/

HESSI Spacecraft Model (mission launches this summer)
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/hessi_model.pdf

Make your own sundial
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Sundials/sundials.html

Build your own pinhole camera/projector
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html

Elementary School (K-5)

Northern Lights and Solar Sprites
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry//dimarco.html

Modeling the Sun
http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/pages/SunActiv.html#Modeling

Solar Cookie - Learn about the Sun using cookies and candies
Jean Settle of the Solar system Educators Program
scintillatingsun3.pdf (1M)

Middle School (6-9)

Solarscapes -- lessons about solar cycles, rotation, and dynamics
http://www.spacescience.org/Education/ResourcesForEducators/CurriculumMaterials/1.html

Seeing the Invisible -- lessons about the light of the Sun (PDF documents)

• Teacher Guide
  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/solar_observation.pdf


• Student Workbook
  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/student_booklet.pdf

Solar Storms and You -- Math and science lessons
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry//higley.html

Solar Flip Book
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/lessons/solarflipbook6_8.html

Build a Spectroscope
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/cots/index.html

High School (9-12)

Magnetic Field Activities for the High School Classroom
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/ed

Measuring the Distance to the Sun
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Eccentricity/

RadioJove -- build a radio experiment to study the Sun and Jupiter
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Sunspots -- reader and activities
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/lessons/sunspots/

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