Learners will explore differences between weather on Earth and space weather and the hazards of each.

Using a “fun-size” bag of rainbow bite-sized candies learners will place different colored candies on a diagram of the Sun-Earth system to show different space weather conditions during solar minimum and solar maximum.

In this lesson students will explore the Solar Orbiter Mission. 

The Solar Eclipse Implementation Sequence provides a series of lesson plans for students to learn about solar eclipses.