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When The Sun Goes Dark (Book Sample)
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This richly illustrated book is a fun way to help young astronomers understand all the excitement during a solar eclipse. The book tells how two curious children and their grandparents re-create eclipses in their living…
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Understanding and Tracking the Annual Motion of the Sun and the Seasons
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This chapter helps expand students’ thinking to how the apparent motion of the Sun in the sky changes throughout the year and the effects of those changes on the Earth, including the varying length of daytime and…
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Eliciting Students’ Initial Ideas About the Sun–Earth System
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth Together: Phases, Eclipses, and More
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This chapter adds a third cycle of importance in astronomy (and human culture): the revolution of the Moon around the Earth. The chapter starts with a simple challenge for the students: putting a series of lunar…
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Q: How Does the Sun’s Heat Get To Us Here on Earth?
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From Sun to Shade: Exploring Environmental Changes During the Total Solar Eclipse
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Excitement is building in anticipation of the total solar eclipse taking place this April 2024. During the total solar eclipse, the moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun, blocking the Sun and casting a shadow on…
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Astronomy throughout the year
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Teaching the science of energy, force, and motion through an engineering design challenge.
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With funding and support from the NASA Office of Space Science through the IDEAS program, a team of teachers from Gullett Elementary School in Austin, Texas, and a research scientist at the University of Texas, worked…
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