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Textbooks
Every
scientific advance lets us change something about how we explain
how and why things happen. This page will give you supplementary
resources about solar flares and solar research that can be used
to extend your classroom discussions about science.
Although there are no education standards that require students to learn
about solar flares and 'magnetic reconnection', there are content
standards that require the student to understand magnetism,
forces, energy, states-of-matter, systems, and a variety of
reading and math skills.
The PDF documents below will cover 'special topics' and will be written
in typical K-12 textbook format (including page layout and
fonts!) similar to what is used by common US textbook
publishers.
Dr. Sten Odenwald is an experienced textbook author and content advisor,
and will be the author or editor of these documents. He has
served as a scientific advisor to Glencoe, and to Holt,Rinehart
and Winston since 2001. He is the author of the Astronomy
textbook (Fifth Edition) used by 6th grade students in Florida,
and published by HRW in 2005.
College-level:
Earth's Magnetic Field and Van
Allen Belts - This page was developed
by the IMAGE science team and updates the typical description of
Earth's environment, which you will find in many typical
'Introductory Astronomy' textbooks. The 'geomagnetic field' is
more than just a bar-magnet field. Its changes during solar
storms cause many complex, and largely invisible, interactions.
[PDF, 660 Kby]
Aurora, Ring Currents and the
Plasmasphere - This is the companion
page to the one above, and continues the discussion about why
Earth has aurora, and corrects a serious misconception about the
origin of the auroral particles found in nearly every textbook,
namely, that auroral particles come straight from the sun and
impact the upper atmosphere to cause aurora. [PDF, 484
kby]
Grades 11-12:
Stay Tuned!
Grades 8-10:
Stay Tuned!
Grades 5-7:
Stay Tuned!
Grades 2-4:
Stay Tuned!
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