Add to ORKGThis website is a self-guided tutorial about the Sun and its effects on the environment here on Earth. Topics covered include statistics and details about the Sun and its layers, why seasons occur on Earth, the Earth's orbit, solstices and equinoxes, temperatures on Earth and why they vary, solar heating, atmospheric scattering, and Sun angles. Images and animations help to make concepts easy to grasp. Educational levels: High school, Middle school, Undergraduate lower division
This curriculum guide includes a brief textbook, a hands-on activity guide, and resource listings. T...
This resource consists of four modules with teachers’ guides: 1) Temperature Variations and Habitabi...
This activity is designed to help students fully understand our planet's relationship to the Sun. St...
This Web site contains multimedia educational presentations on the Sun and its effects on the Earth....
This curriculum guide for teachers includes a short textbook, a hands-on activity guide, and resourc...
This lesson plan helps students understand the relationship between the Earth and the Sun and how th...
This lesson is designed to help students understand how the sun supplies almost all the energy we us...
In this unit, students explore the Sun, its magnetic fields, and sunspots, and investigate Earth's m...
Earth's orbit around the Sun, together with the tilt of its axis, results in periodic climate change...
The sun produces a vast amount of energy. The energy emitted by the sun is called solar energy or so...
This lesson will reinforce the concept that Earth's seasons result from a combination of its orbit a...
Solarscapes presents middle school students with a short, focused study of the physical nature of th...
This downloadable tutorial provides basic, introductory knowledge of the Sun for younger students. I...
This Scholastic.com computer activity consists of a series of questions related to the Sun. It provi...
This tutorial contains animations that illustrate factors related to seasons on Earth. There are two...
This curriculum guide includes a brief textbook, a hands-on activity guide, and resource listings. T...
This resource consists of four modules with teachers’ guides: 1) Temperature Variations and Habitabi...
This activity is designed to help students fully understand our planet's relationship to the Sun. St...
This Web site contains multimedia educational presentations on the Sun and its effects on the Earth....
This curriculum guide for teachers includes a short textbook, a hands-on activity guide, and resourc...
This lesson plan helps students understand the relationship between the Earth and the Sun and how th...
This lesson is designed to help students understand how the sun supplies almost all the energy we us...
In this unit, students explore the Sun, its magnetic fields, and sunspots, and investigate Earth's m...
Earth's orbit around the Sun, together with the tilt of its axis, results in periodic climate change...
The sun produces a vast amount of energy. The energy emitted by the sun is called solar energy or so...
This lesson will reinforce the concept that Earth's seasons result from a combination of its orbit a...
Solarscapes presents middle school students with a short, focused study of the physical nature of th...
This downloadable tutorial provides basic, introductory knowledge of the Sun for younger students. I...
This Scholastic.com computer activity consists of a series of questions related to the Sun. It provi...
This tutorial contains animations that illustrate factors related to seasons on Earth. There are two...
This curriculum guide includes a brief textbook, a hands-on activity guide, and resource listings. T...
This resource consists of four modules with teachers’ guides: 1) Temperature Variations and Habitabi...
This activity is designed to help students fully understand our planet's relationship to the Sun. St...