K-12 Formal Education
This audience includes elementary and secondary classroom teachers and their students. Through our offerings in the history of eclipses, science and math activities, and activities in communication and art, we cover many classroom topics in a unique, cross-curricular manner.
Information about Eclipses
- Main Website
- Eclipse NASA Website
- Who, What, Where, When, How
- Maps
- Time Frame
- Eye Safety
- NASA’s Eyes App for computer
Information about sun
- NASA’s information about the sun
- Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Download and play with solar data
- Lessons here
Elementary Level Activities
- Edible Model of the sun
- How Can the Little Moon Hide the Giant sun – Scale Activity
- K-4 focused lessons about the sun
- K-4 Our Very Own Star Story
- Layers of the sun Diagram
- Make a sun on Paper Activity
- NSTA's Science & Children - Jan2017 - Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse by Fulco
- NSTA's Science & Children - Feb2017 - Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse by Fulco
- NSTA's Science & Children - Mar2017 - Preparing for the Eclipse, How to Safely Observe the sun with Young Children by Hurst, Plummer, Gurton and Schatz
- NSTA's Science & Children - Mar2017 - Eclipses and Eye Safety by Charles Fulco
- Playing with Magnetism; Exploring Magnetic Fields
- Scale Model of the sun and Earth
- Various phases of the moon throughout the month
Middle School Level Activities
- Ball and String Earth-Moon Model (pp. 13-20)
- Eclipse Cereal Box Viewer
- Eclipse Simulator
- NASA Wavelengths and Sunspots, Esseacourses.strategies.org
- NSTA's Science Scope - Mar2017 - The August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, The Perfect Opportunity to Highlight Three-Dimensional Science Learning by Schatz and Fraknoi
- NSTA's Science Scope - Mar2017 - Science Teachers as Community Eclipse Outreach Agents by Fraknoi and Schatz
- NSTA's Science Scope - Oct2016 - Exploring Lunar and Solar Eclipses via a 3-D Modeling Design Task by Miranda, Kruse and Hermann
- Solarscapes – plot and analyze Sunspots and sun’s period of rotation.
- Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge MS
- The Last Total Solar Eclipse…Ever! Math (p.34)
- The sun and Magnetic Fields
High School Level Activities
- Modeling Meaningful Eclipses
- NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017 - Total Eclipse. An Ideal Opportunity to Practice Three-Dimensional Science Learning by Schatz and Fraknoi
- NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017- Becoming a Solar Eclipse Outreach Agent by Fraknoi and Schatz
- NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017 - Modeling the Eclipse by Thornburgh and Tretter Credit: National Science Teachers Association (Science Scope, Science & Children and The Science Teacher) permission granted by Mr. Ken Roberts, the Assistant Executive Director of NSTA Periodicals
Other (not NASA Sites)
- Aurorae movies from the International Space Station
- Library Network Resources
- National Solar Observatory Teacher Resources
- Solar Eclipse Music Playlists, Sofeminine.co
- The Night Sky Network
- UC Berkeley STEM Resources, Eclipse Events, Educator Workshops, Multicultural Education
- Eclipse PBS LearningMedia Folder
