Workshop at the 2010 ASP Conference in Boulder
Windows to the Universe staff (Randy Russell & Roberta Johnson) presented a workshop titled "A Model for Teacher Professional Development Workshops - Radiation Storm vs. The Magnetic Shield: Superheroes of Magnetism & Space Weather Education" at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's (ASP) "Earth & Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach" conference in Boulder, Colorado from 3:15-4:15 PM on Tuesday, August 3, 2010.
This page provides access to the PowerPoint presentation shown during the workshop, links to resources (images, animations, etc.) displayed during the workshop, and links to write-ups of the hands-on activities demonstrated and/or mentioned during the workshop.
PowerPoint Slide Show
Members download PowerPoint Presentation
Images, Animations, and Interactives shown during the Presentation
Most of the images, animations, and interactives shown as part of the Space Weather presentation at the workshop are available online at the links listed below:
- Earth beside Sunspot
- Rotating Sun with Sunspots (animation)
- Animation: Magnetic Field Lines Tangle as Sun Rotates (QuickTime: large or small, MPEG: large or small)
- Coronal Loops in the Sun's atmosphere - TRACE spacecraft image
- Horseshoe magnet in Sun
- Prominence size comparison with Earth
- CME animation - SOHO coronagraph (large)
- Animation: Model of CME from Sun to Earth (small or large) - great illustration of SIZE SCALES
- Earth globe with Magnetic Field Lines
- Earth's Magnetic Field - compare to bar magnet (simple slideshow animation)
- Bar Magnet & Compass interactive (Flash)
- Bar Magnet, Compass, and Magnetic Field Lines Interactive (Java)
- Earth Magnetic Field and Compass interactive
- Earth Magnetosphere diagram (magnetosphere page)
- Earth Plasmasphere diagram (plasmasphere page)
- Earth radiation belts diagram (radiation belts page)
- Aurora photos - viewed from Earth - green and green & purple
- Aurora from Earth orbit
- Auroral oval images from Earth orbit (close-up and whole planet view)
- Jupiter's Aurora (polar close-up | whole planet view)
- Saturn's Aurora (image 1 | image 2 | image 3)
- Seafloor Spreading
- Image of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, suitable for pasting onto a file folder to use for the Magnetometer Extensions (Seafloor Spreading) Activity
- Image of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, showing coastlines of the Americas and Africa, suitable for pasting onto a file folder to use for the Magnetometer Extensions (Seafloor Spreading) Activity
- Graphic of Rocks Recording Magnetic Reversals Symmetrically about a Spreading Ridge (Images courtesy USGS)
- Ages of Global Oceanic Crust, Mercator Projection (Image courtesy NOAA)
- Age of Atlantic Ocean Seafloor Crust, Globe (Image courtesy NOAA)
- Convective Motion in the Mantle Drives Seafloor Spreading (Image courtesy USGS)
- Earth's Magnetic Poles
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 160 Million Years (Image courtesy USGS)
- Side-by-side: Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 160 and 5 Million Years (Images courtesy USGS)
- Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 5 Million Years
- Variations in Strength of Earth's Magnetic Field During the Past 800,000 Years (Image courtesy USGS)
List of Hands-on Activities
Write-ups of the hands-on activities conducted, demonstrated, or mentioned during the workshop can be found at the links below:
- Magnetometer (in Spanish)
- Magnetometer Extensions - Prospecting for Iron Ore & Seafloor Spreading (in Spanish)
- Terrabagga (in Spanish)
- Magnetic Levitation (in Spanish)
