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This interactive science module introduces students to the basic structure of matter, including atoms, ions, elements, and molecules. Animations and simulations help learners to…
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This site provides a non-mathematical overview of research on the magnetic fields and space environment around Earth. It includes articles on particles, electromagnetic forces, the…
  
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This free computer game created by the Space Science Institute displays a "golf course" as a magnetic field and the golf ball as a proton. These charged particles interact with the…
  
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This video-based tutorial from the Goddard Space Flight Center provides lay explanations of the differences between solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The strongest…
  
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This page contains seven in-depth explorations of magnetism, magnetic fields on Earth and the sun, solar wind, auroras, and solar flares. Three lessons are for middle school; four…
  
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This high school lesson module features four turn-key activities to promote understanding of magnetic fields on the Sun, the relationship between sunspots and solar flares, magnetic…
  
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This set of Power Point slides was designed as a highly visual way to teach about the sun's structure and scale, its magnetic field, sunspots and the Solar Cycle, and behavior of…
  
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This page features an interactive tutorial on plasma: its nature as a state of matter, uses of plasmas on Earth, and a brief introduction to the role of plasma in the universe. It…
  
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This curriculum module, written by scientists at the University of California-Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, features lessons and tutorials exploring how magnetic fields on the…
  
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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…
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