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Highlights

1. Space Weather
2. News about the Sun
3. Cool Videos
4. The Sun's Vital Statistics
5. Exploring the Sun
6. Sunspots
7. Helioseismology and Solar Physics
8. Multicultural Aspects
9. The Sun-Earth Connection
10. Solar Missions and Telescopes
11. Images of Today's Sun
12. Collections of Solar Images and Data
13. Pictures of the Day & Cool Solar Imagery
14. Glossary
15. The Sun's Vital Statistics

Overview of Science Content Standards

1. Build your own Spectroscope
   • Introduction to Spectroscopy (pptx)
   • Fingerprints in Sunlight (pptx)
   • Fingerprints in Starlight (pptx)
   • Secrets in Sunlight (comic)
   • Colors of the Sun (video)
   • Colors and Motions of the Sun (video)
   • "All About the Sun" Study Guide (grades 5-8)
   • "All About the Sun" Study Guide (grades 2-4)
2. Teaching Moon Phases
   • Teaching Moon Phases (grades 4-14; pdf)
   • Drive-by Science Moon Phase Activity (pdf)
   • Teaching Moon Phases through Active Engagement (pptx)
   • Teachers Guide to Teaching Moon Phases Through Active Engagement (pdf)
3. What is Ultraviolet Light? and how to use UV Beads in the Classroom
   • Experimenting with UV-sensitive Beads (PDF)
   • Drive-by Science UV-sensitive Beads (PDF)
   • UV Beads Experiment, Advanced (Grades 9-12; PDF)
   • Experiments with UV beads, Sunglasses and Sunscreen (grades 5-8)
   • UV Beads Experiment (grades 2-4)
4. SID Space Weather Monitor Program
   Obtaining and using scientific instruments for your classroom
5. Magnetism and Solar Activity
6. Effects of the Sun on our Planet
   • Detect the Sun's Effect on the Earth's Magnetosphere by AM Radio Reception. (grades 9-12)
   • Build a Greenhouse (grades 5-8)
   • Plant Growth and Evaporation (grades 2-4)
7. Retrieving Solar Images
   • Sunspot Data Recording Worksheet
   • Latitude/Longitude Grids
   • About the Images
   • Solar Magnetograms
   • The MDI Instrument (SOI page)
   • SOHO Daily Images
   • Sample Images
   • A Completed Sunspot Data Recording Worksheet
   • Information for Teachers
8. Galileo and the Spinning Sun
   • Take the Galileo Challenge
   • Are those sunspots really on the Sun?
   • How did Galileo Prove the Earth went around the Sun?
   • Proving a Sun-centered Solar System (activity)
   • Galileo and the Spinning Sun
   • Galileo's Sunspot Drawings (includes animations)
9. Observing the Sun
   • Safely Observing the Sun for Yourself (pdf)
   • Projecting the Sun
   • Using a Sun Funnel
   • Using a Sunspotter Telescope
   • Using Your Own Telescope
   • Viewing NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images
   • Viewing Solar Eclipses
   • Observing Transits
   • Understanding the Color of the Suns
10. Magnetism and the Sun
    • Magnetism and the Sun (full version of activity)
    • Introduction
    • Magnetic Force
    • Magnetic Energy
    • Magnetism on the Sun (includes pointers to information about magnetic reconnection, plasma, sunspots, faculae, flares prominences, and coronal mass ejections)
    • Pointers to related web-based material related to magnetism and solar physics
    • Bibliography related to magnetism and solar physics
11. Interview with Mr. Sol
    • A sample Interview with Mr. Sol by Robert J. Nemiroff
12. Sun-Centered Physics
    • (collection of activities from Goddard Space Flight Center)
13. Are Sunspots Really on the Sun?
    • Sunspot Speed Graph
    • How Galileo Proved those Spots were on the Sun
    • Galileo's Mathematical Proof
    • How Wilson Proved those Spots were on the Sun
14. Solar Music and the Singing Sun
    • The Singing Sun
    • Solar sounds website where one can listen to various formats of the sounds of the Sun
    • Introduction to Helioseismology
    • Helioseismology Beginner's Bibliography
15. Quick Quizzes
    • Galileo Challenge
    • Solar Granulation Quiz
    • Sunspot Quiz
16. The Sun on Earth
    • Description of the Sun-Earth Connection
    • Auroras
    • Rainbows
    • Sunrise, Sunset
    • Global Warming
    • Sun in Nature (flowers, animals, etc.)
17. Art Based on Science
18. Solar Art, Music, Literature, Poetry

1. Space Weather
2. Global Warming
3. Auroras
4. Space Weather Monitors