The Solar Eclipse Implementation Sequence provides a series of lesson plans for students to learn about solar eclipses.
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In this activity, students will compare the methods scientists use to study the Sun, including drawings made during a total solar eclipse in the 1860’s, modern coronagraphs, and advanced imagery gathered by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
In this activity students will learn several ways to safely observe a solar eclipse.
Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.
Students develop and test a hypothesis about how albedo affects temperature.
Students explore positive feedback effects of changing albedo from melting Arctic sea ice.
To investigate the different rates of heating and cooling of certain materials on earth in order to understand the heating dynamics that take place in the Earth’s atmosphere.