Archive of
Sun-Earth Day
2001
As part of NASA's Sun-Earth Day festivities, the Stanford
SOLAR Center will host a special webcast where students will present results
from a variety of solar activities and discuss their findings.
The webcast format will allow students and teachers
from across the country to interact with their student peers in our California
NASA Ames Research Center auditorium via the chatroom and compare results
from other schools.
We'll also have guest scientists on hand to help answer
questions. Students will be able to submit their results to our website
and compare with others. Some teachers may desire to make a short (2-3
minute max) video of their students presenting the results that we could
later air during our webcast.
Send your videos, photos or printed results to the
following address to have them included in the webcast. Please ensure
that the material arrives no later than April 20. Electronic results can
be sent to pMortfield@solar.stanford.edu
Paul Mortfield Solar Observatories Group
HEPL Annex B-208
Stanford University Stanford, CA, 94305
The activities are arranged by grade level; Grade
2-4, Grade 5-8 and Grade 9-12. Note that there's overlap in the ages for
the activities. You could realistically do Grade 2-5, Grade 5-10.
For other
questions you can contact:
Paul
Mortfield - Stanford SOLAR Center
Elaine
Lewis - Sun-Earth Day Coordinator, NASA
Terri
Littlejohn - Sun-Earth Day Web Event Producer, NASA
April 2001
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DATE
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TIME
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EVENT TYPE
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GRADE LEVEL
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EVENT
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DESCRIPTION
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| April
27, 2001 |
10:00am
-12:00noon
Pacific
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Grade 2-4
Grade 5-9
Grade 9-12
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Paul
Mortfield, a Stanford Solar Center Astronomer, and 100 students
will share findings of their experiments at NASA AMES Research
Center . The experiements will include using UltraViolet sensitive
beads that change color
when exposed to sunlight, building a working spectroscope and
using it to analyse the colors of light, and determining the
rotation rate of the sun by using images from the SOHO
spacecraft.
Event information
and Materials
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