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Solar Science Workshop for Middle School Science Teachers

July 2007: Global Warming
solar observatory
Workshop will include:

  • scientific theories and evidence behind the phenomenon of global warming

  • environmental problems from different points of view

  • application of solid science to real-life conditions

  • Activities from GEMS
    (Great Explorations in Math and Science)
    Global Warming
    teacher's guide and kit

Resources
  • NASA Sun-Earth Media Viewer
    • The NASA Sun-Earth Media Viewer is a Flash-based viewer. It allows visitors to zoom and pan live NASA solar and Earth images. It includes a scale tool. The viewer also contains video interviews with scientists and detailed scientific animations and visualizations.


solar 2006
This workshop is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant No. ).

Contact:      samec@lpl.arizona.edu