This is a software package about space weather: what it is and what it does in space and here on Earth. The disc includes software that displays movies and images of the aurora and of the Sun in various wavelengths from the ground and from orbiting... (View More) NASA spacecraft; a tutorial about what space weather is and how the aurora is formed; and more. Users will also find real-time space weather conditions from current satellite missions and can download the latest data without leaving the Space Weather application. A TicTacToe game is also included that tests space weather knowledge. The disc contains many other Space Weather resources, programs, sounds, and games for use at home or school, and there are several educational websites included in full on the disc for offline viewing. In addition there is an exhaustive list of links to a variety of space weather resources available online. The disc is available for free from a number of sites if downloaded. (View Less)

This is a set of instructions for building a physical model. The model simulates the Sun's paths across the sky at summer solstice, winter solstice, and the spring and fall equinoxes. A bead simulates the Sun, moving along a cord, from rising along... (View More) the eastern horizon to setting on the western. The bead can be moved from path to path to demonstrate solar alignments, the solstices, and equinoxes. The model is created to be unique to the user's latitude, and is useful for including in lessons that teach about the seasons or archaeoastronomy. (View Less)

This is an engaging comic book about light and color. Two comic characters, Camilla Corona, a rubber chicken, and Colours O'IRIS, a peacock, explore questions relating to colors of light from the Sun.

This is an online Flash-based interactive tool kit that provides access to illustrations, visualizations, videos, and near-real time images of the Sun from a variety of NASA spacecraft missions. Learners can access this information to supplement... (View More) other materials related to the Sun and heliophysics. (View Less)

This is a lithograph that outlines the components of our heliosphere, using current information released by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft team. Learners will view an illustration of our heliosphere on the front of the... (View More) product, read information about the heliosphere on the back, and then use the lithograph image itself as part of a model of the heliosphere that uses water to represent outflowing solar wind in an activity titled Model The Heliosphere Using Your Kitchen Sink. This lithograph complements other IBEX informal education materials. (View Less)

This is a lithograph that outlines the components of our heliosphere, using current information released by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft team (and updated in 2013). Learners will view an illustration of our heliosphere on... (View More) the front of the product, read information about the heliosphere on the back, and then use the lithograph image itself as part of a model of the heliosphere that uses water to represent outflowing solar wind in an activity titled Model The Heliosphere Using Your Kitchen Sink. This lithograph complements other IBEX informal education materials and is a Spanish translation of an English language product. (View Less)