March 19, 2008

Remember, during Solar Week your class can submit a couple of your best questions to the scientists and they will answer on the bulletin board. Click on "Ask a Question" in the left-hand menu.

[Students - if you've come here on your own, please use the links on the gray navigation bar near the top of the page to: Learn About The Active Sun, Play the Game, Do the Activity, Meet Today's Scientists, The Effect on Earth.]

Teachers, give us your feedback on Solar Week Spring 2008 and receive free NASA Sun-Earth teaching resources (while supplies last).

The Active Sun topic, game and activities are designed to introduce your students to the various ways in which the Sun is active. This includes a number of movies of explosions on the Sun such as solar flares and large eruptions like coronal mass ejections. Much emphasis is given to how these solar storms can impact the Earth.

The activity includes some measurement of images which enables them to calculate the speed of a coronal mass ejection as it leaves the Sun.

Today's game is a pattern recognition game using images relevant to the topic of solar activity. Please make sure you familiarize yourself and your students with the valid sequences which are shown on a separate crib sheet. The game does not identify the sequences for you. This was a deliberate choice to encourage some thinking about what one of our sequences mean in terms of what is happening on the sun. Each valid sequence mimics a sequence of events on the sun during a solar storm.

To continue, please use the links on the gray navigation bar near the top of the page:
Learn About The Active Sun, Play the Game, Do the Activity, Meet Today's Scientists, The Effect on Earth.

Teachers, give us your feedback on Solar Week Spring 2008 and receive free NASA Sun-Earth teaching resources.