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Phases of the moon with cool animation
A fine teacher-written lesson plan on tides
Technical background on tides from NOAA
Tide tables for California
NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Education Forum is a good first stop, with links to NASA's Sun-Earth missions, cool imagery sets, a self-help reference desk, and much more.
NASA's Spacelink site offers a comprehensive search engine (e.g., try "paper airplanes").
Click here to download Living with a Star, NASA's educator guide (including a long reference list of resources).
NASA's Space Science Education Resource Directory provides "a convenient way to find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums," etc.
Eclipse Home Page (The "Fred Espenak" Web site) http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
Home of the SOHO Mission (including the MDI project of Paul Mortfield's group)
Graph paper printer program (now shareware that costs $20)
Free Astronomy software -- Home Planet, highly recommended by Ben [Wintel only]; comes in "Lite" and "Full" versions for download.
Adler's inquiry-based Sun-Earth Connection curriculum includes role-playing, research, and group work, with lots of neat ideas and a detailed list of learning goals and objectives
Adler's Lesson Plan Database includes 36 teacher-authored and -tested lesson plans, mostly for middle school (use the word all for both the login and password).
All about the sunspot cycle, including daily sunspot numbers and historical records. Some graphics require Java support.
Sunspot cycle graphing activity for students from Windows to the Universe, with data from 1700 to 1999.
How to make your own sunspotter (I hope you or someone you know is handy....)
As the Sun Burns includes curricula and UV-bead activities for grades 2-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
You & Me & UV features UV-bead activities directed at grades 5-8.
Herschel's experiment: instructions – a simple, clear, well-illustrated version of this activity.
Herschel's experiment: results – how it "should" work!
Herschel's original equipment and setup – courtesy of the Science Museum of London.
Get a free EM spectrum poster (plus other cool posters) from the Wright Center at Tufts University.
Eye-catching, fun-to-use EM spectrum pages from Amazing-Space; students will love "Toast the Robot."
Ways to project visible-light spectra in your classroom (thanks Windows to the Universe)
Make a simple spectroscope (thanks Windows to the Universe)
Color diagram of atmospheric structure and penetration of EM radiation types (diagram 1 from 6/27 notes)
Collecting EM radiation -- Windows to the Universe site with background info and activities on telescopes, lenses and mirrors, a pinhole viewer, and more
How Ozone Destruction Works -- A clearly depicted animation with clearly written accompanying text.
The Ozone Hole Tour -- More than you may need or want to know, much of this technically accurate but reader-friendly site should be accessible to high-school students.
The Ozone Hole Movie -- Satellite data from 1978 to the present, presented as a movie consisting of successive monthly views of total ozone. An easy way to play with this movie: Just run it by clicking "Build Animation," then drag the slider bar to compare the same month of specific years. The most revealing month is October, when polar ozone is at a minimum. Compare, for example, Oct 79, Oct 82, Oct 91, and Oct 2000.
Lesson plans and activities from Windows to the Universe
Lesson plans and activites from UC-Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab
Stanford Solar Center -- Featuring lessons, activities, information, ask-a-solar-astronomer, helioseismology, and more.
The GLOBE Project -- a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program.
The Science Myths page -- link courtesy Bonnie Stumbaugh, SECAT 2002
SpaceShots -- your "one-stop space shop" for maps and posters (fairly reasonably priced)
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about the Sun-Earth environment
Plasma - the Fourth State of Matter -- A lucid explanation of plasma and why scientists study it.
