Workshop at the LASP Solar Summit on June 10, 2012
Spark staff member Randy Russell presented this workshop for teachers during the LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) Solar Summit at NCAR's Mesa Lab in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, June 10, 2012. This web page contains links to web pages, activities, images, animations, interactives, and video clips displayed or referenced during the workshop:
Hands-on Activities
- Magnetometer (in Spanish)
- Magnetometer Extensions - Prospecting for Iron Ore & Seafloor Spreading (in Spanish)
- Terrabagga (in Spanish)
- Magnetic Levitation (in Spanish)
- Atmosphere Graphing Activities
- Temperature and the Earth's Atmosphere
- Reading Graphs with a Logarithmic Scale
- Graphs and the Composition of Earth’s Thermosphere
- Student Worksheet
- Thermosphere Constituents (interactive graph)
- Graphs and the Composition of Earth’s Ionosphere
- Student Worksheet
- Ionosphere Constituents (interactive graph)
Images, Animations, Interactives and Videos
- Sun-Earth Connections and Space Weather Memory Game
- Seafloor Spreading
- Image of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, suitable for pasting onto a file folder to use for the Magnetometer Extensions (Seafloor Spreading) Activity
- Image of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, showing coastlines of the Americas and Africa, suitable for pasting onto a file folder to use for the Magnetometer Extensions (Seafloor Spreading) Activity
- Graphic of Rocks Recording Magnetic Reversals Symmetrically about a Spreading Ridge (Images courtesy USGS)
- Ages of Global Oceanic Crust, Mercator Projection (Image courtesy NOAA)
- Age of Atlantic Ocean Seafloor Crust, Globe (Image courtesy NOAA)
- Convective Motion in the Mantle Drives Seafloor Spreading (Image courtesy USGS)
- Earth's Magnetic Poles
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 160 Million Years (Image courtesy USGS)
- Side-by-side: Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 160 and 5 Million Years (Images courtesy USGS)
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 5 Million Years
- Variations in Strength of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 800,000 Years (Image courtesy USGS)
- Earth beside Sunspot
- Rotating Sun with Sunspots (animation)
- Animation: Magnetic Field Lines Tangle as Sun Rotates (QuickTime: large or small, MPEG: large or small)
- Coronal Loops in the Sun's atmosphere - TRACE spacecraft image
- Horseshoe magnet in Sun
- Prominence size comparison with Earth
- CME animation - SOHO coronagraph (large)
- Animation: Model of CME from Sun to Earth (small or large)
- Earth globe with Magnetic Field Lines
- Earth's Magnetic Field - compare to bar magnet (simple slideshow animation)
- Bar Magnet & Compass interactive (Flash)
- Bar Magnet, Compass, and Magnetic Field Lines Interactive (Java)
- Earth Magnetic Field and Compass interactive
- Earth Magnetosphere diagram (magnetosphere page)
- Earth Plasmasphere diagram (plasmasphere page)
- Earth radiation belts diagram (radiation belts page)
- Aurora
- NASA ScienceCast video: Auroras Underfoot (YouTube)
- Aurora video from Space Station on SpaceWeather.com
- Aurora photos - viewed from Earth - green and green & purple
- Aurora from Earth orbit
- Auroral oval images from Earth orbit (close-up and whole planet view)
- Jupiter's Aurora (polar close-up | whole planet view)
- Saturn's Aurora (image 1 | image 2 | image 3)
- Radiation and the EM Spectrum
Web Pages
- Physics of the Aurora: Earth Systems (COMET module)
- Charged Particle Motion in Earth's Magnetosphere (Exploratour on Windows to the Universe)
- Stan Solomon's talk about Aurora colors
- Layers of Earth's Atmosphere
- Troposphere
- Stratosphere
- Mesosphere
- Thermosphere
- Exosphere
- Virtual Ballooning to Explore Earth's Atmosphere
- Sun and Space Weather (section of Spark's web site)
- Sun and Space Weather Movie Gallery (Windows to the Universe)
Location:
NCAR Mesa Lab classroom
Date of the event:
June 10, 2012 - 9:00am to 12:00pm