Activities

Hands-on and online activities.

Hands-On Activities

The Sun in the Sky: Daily Motion

• Solar Clock - Track the Sun’s motion through the sky
• Mount Nose - Demonstrate the spinning of the Earth and how it creates night and day

The Sun in the Sky: Seasonal Motion

• Ancient Sun Observation - DIY Sun Science The Real Reasons for the Seasons - GEMS
• 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 Balls Demo (using the real Sun as the light source
• 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: Structure

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