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Space Weather Maps

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Overview

In this interactive you will create space weather forecast maps for solar minimum and solar maximum.

Directions

Remember to never look directly at the Sun without proper safety equipment.

  1. Read the background information on space weather on slides 3-6.
  2. Read the forecast for solar minimum on slide 7.
  3. Complete the interactive space weather forecast map for solar minimum on slide 8.
  4. Read the forecast for solar maximum on slide 9.
  5. Complete the interactive space weather forecast map for solar maximum on slide 10.
  6. Share your maps as direction by your instructor.

 

Teacher Note

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This product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASA's Science Activation portfolio, and by the Solar Orbiter mission.
This product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASA's Science Activation portfolio, and by Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between NASA and ESA.

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

  • PS2B: Types of Interactions
  • PS4A: Wave Properties
  • PS4B: Electromagnetic Radiation
  • ESS1A: The Universe and its Stars

Crosscutting Concepts:

  • Patterns
  • Cause and Effect
  • Structure and Function

Science and Engineering Practices:

  • Developing and Using Models
  • Students will be able to identify key components of space weather (solar cycle, sunspots, geomagnetic storms, aurora).
  • Students will be able to use space weather data to create a space weather map.
  • What is space weather?
  • How do scientists predict space weather?
  • How do space weather effects vary throughout the solar cycle?
  • Internet Required
  • One-to-One (tablet, laptop, or CPU)
  • One-to-a-Group
  • Teacher computer/projector only

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Grade Band

  • 6-8
  • 9-12

Time

  • 30 minutes

Visualization Tool

NGSS Three Dimensional Learning

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