Science and Engineering PracticesScience & Engineering Practices Addressed by the Sunspot Digi Kit
1) Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Grades 9-12: Analyze data using tools, technologies, and/or models (e.g., computational, mathematical) in order to make valid and reliable claims or determine an optimal design solution.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
2) Using Math & Computational Thinking Use mathematical representations of phenomena to describe explanations.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
1) Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Grades 9-12: Analyze data using tools, technologies, and/or models (e.g., computational, mathematical) in order to make valid and reliable claims or determine an optimal design solution.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
- NASA-SSEC Lecture Tutorial: Measuring the Frequency and Period of Sunspots
- NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO): Image archive
- Big Bear Solar Observatory: Sunspot Videos
- Big Bear Solar Observatory: Solving Sunspot Mysteries
- NASA/ESA Class Activity: Tracking Sunspots Using Real Data from SOHO
- Science Netlinks: Tracking the Movement of Sunspots
2) Using Math & Computational Thinking Use mathematical representations of phenomena to describe explanations.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
- NASA-SSEC Lecture Tutorial: Measuring the Frequency and Period of Sunspots
- ESA: Differential Rotation of the Sun and Its Chromosphere
- NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO): Image archive
- Big Bear Solar Observatory: Sunspot Videos
- IRIS Data: TiO Image catalog
- NASA/ESA Class Activity: Tracking Sunspots Using Real Data from SOHO
- Science Netlinks: Tracking the Movement of Sunspots