Sun-Earth Day April 27, 2001
As part of NASA's Sun-Earth Day festivities, the Stanford SOLAR Center will host a special webcast where students
will present results from a variety of solar activities and discuss their findings. The webcast format will allow
students and teachers from across the country to interact with their student peers in our california studio via
the chatroom and compare results from other schools. We'll also have guest scientists on hand to help answer questions.
Students will be able to submit their results to our website and compare with others. Some teachers may desire
to make a short (2-3 minute max) video of their students presenting the results that we could later air during
our webcast. Send your videos, photos or printed results to the following address to have them included in the
webcast. Please ensure that the material arrives no later than April 20. Electronic results can be sent to pMortfield@solar.stanford.edu
Paul Mortfield
Solar Observatories Group
HEPL Annex B-208
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 94305
The activities are arranged by grade level; Grade 2-4, Grade 5-8 and Grade 9-12. Note that there's overlap in the
ages for the activities. You could realistically do Grade 2-5, Grade 5-10.
For other questions you can contact:
Paul Mortfield - Stanford SOLAR Center
Elaine Lewis - Sun-Earth Day Coordinator, NASA
Educational Innovations, Inc.
362 Main Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06851
(888) 912-7474
Web: www.teachersource.com
Catalog: EDI # UV-ast
(assorted colors with approximately 240 beads per bag @$6.95, 1 bag should be enough for a class of 30 students)
Edmund Online Catalog. link to GRATINGS or 1-800-728-6999
Catalog # CR30395-02 (pkg of 25) $22.95
Catalog # CR30501-83 (pkg of 80) $49.95
This grade level can also build a soda bottle magnetometer to measure the effects of solar storms on the Earth's magnetic field. Courtesy Dr. Sten Odenwald at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
(scenes from solar webcasts in 2000)
return to Stanford SOLAR Center