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Lenses and Telescopes 
  
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In this laboratory activity, students learn about lenses and telescope construction. Students will describe the nature of convex lenses, measure the focal length of several lenses,…
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Project Spectra! 
  
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This is a digital project developed to advance knowledge of solar system exploration by providing students with spectroscopic data in an accessible and engaging format. The…
https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/education/K-12/project-spectra/
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab: Eyes on the Solar System 
  
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NASA's JPL brings together an array of rich visualization tools for a 3D exploration of our cosmic neighborhood. It provides actual data from spacecraft, including their real-time…
https://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-the-solar-system.html
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab: Dawn 
  
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This is the home page for NASA's Dawn project, whose goal was to shed light on the early evolution of our Solar System by investigating two large protoplanets, Ceres and Vesta, that…
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/dawn/overview/
CME Science: Measuring the Velocity of a Coronal Mass Ejection  [ Report ]
  
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R. Vieyra, A. Flarend, and R. Lopez; Editor: C. Hall
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This lesson for high school physics blends kinematics and space science as students analyze authentic data from the NASA/ESA SOHO space observatory to determine the speed of a…
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Exoplanet Atmospheres Science: Determining Atmospheric Composition of Exoplanets  [ Report ]
  
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This lecture tutorial by the NASA Space Science Education Consortium introduces students to the idea of how spectroscopy can provide information about the atmospheric composition of…
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Sunspot Science: Measuring the Frequency and Period of Sunspots  [ Report ]
  
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This activity for introductory physics introduces authentic sunspot data from NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to promote understanding of period and frequency in the…
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NASA: Data Tour of MMS and Magnetopause Reconnection 
  
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This visualization collection from the NASA Multiscale Magnetosphere mission animates the process of magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon that happens when magnetic fields around…
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NASA Visualizations: How Plasma Transports Energy 
  
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This visualization by the NASA Multiscale Magnetosphere mission (MMS) explains how plasma energy is transported in a type of wave in space known as a kinetic Alfvén wave. The theory…
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12618
Tracking Solar Energetic Particles from Coronal Mass Ejections  [ Report ]
  
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In this guided inquiry tutorial, students apply their knowledge of kinematics and dynamics to determine when particles were accelerated by an interplanetary shock wave from a coronal…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16512&DocI...
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