Solar Data in the Classroom: the TLRBSE Experience

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmed11a0033p&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #ED11A-0033

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

6605 Education

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The Teacher Leaders in Research Based Astronomy program, based at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, has created an immersive research experience for middle and high school teachers at the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico and provides support for teachers to use real solar data in the classroom. Teachers explored two months of daily multispectral images of the Sun during solar maximum using hard copy images and computer-based image processing tools and data CD-ROMs. These data sets included white light intensity, magnetograms, H-alpha, extreme ultraviolet, and x-ray images that students can explore as introductions to solar activity and to features such as sunspots, prominences, and faculae. The data can be used to trace the evolution of solar phenomena, track solar differential rotation, or to calculate daily sunspot numbers that can be compared with professional counts. Teachers also constructed and aligned low cost solar telescopes that will be used to gather data on sunspots and other white light solar phenomena. This experience with solar data and images provides a direct lead-in to additional professional data sets available online at solar observatory sites. These data can be used to detail the development of energetic events such as coronal mass ejections and to follow solar phenomena over long time periods. Of greatest relevance to the teachers were the solar data that can be correlated with space weather data and regional terrestrial data on magnetic storms, satellite failures, and power outages.

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