Activities

Hands-on and online activities.

Hands-On Activities

The Sun in the Sky: Daily Motion

• Solar Clock - Build your own paper sundial and tell the time of day by using the Sun.
• Mount Nose - Demonstrate the spinning of the Earth and how it creates night and day

The Sun in the Sky: Seasonal Motion

• Ancient Sun Observations - Make your own Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun
• Kinesthetic Astronomy - SSI
• Make Your Own El Castillo - Calendar in the Sky
• Solar Alignments at El Castillo - Calendar in the Sky
• Seasons of Solar Panels - Energy from the Sun

The Sun in the Sky: Structure

• Solar Cookies
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Detecting Invisible Light

Space Weather

• Sun-Earth Scale Model

Eclipse

• How does the Small Moon hide the big Sun?
• Moon Phases and Eclipse Demonstration
• Pinhole Sun Viewer

Online Activities

The Sun in the Sky: Daily Motion

• Stellarium - software for desktops, mobile devices, and web browsers that simulates the sky from anywhere on Earth across thousands of years.
• Daily Motion & Moon Phase Simulator - from WGBH Boston

The Sun in the Sky: Seasonal Motion

• Stellarium - software for desktops, mobile devices, and web browsers that simulates the sky from anywhere on Earth across thousands of years.
• Seasons Interactive - LHS SEPUP
• Seasons Simulator - Khan Academy

The Sun in the Sky: The Sun: Structure

• Helioviewer: Explore real image data of the Sun from different spacecraft