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Title |
Developed By |
Description |
Age Group
Length |
| SDO |
"SDO Science Overview"
PPT (10.1 MB) |
Barbara Thompson |
Comprehensive overview of the Science of SDO, with historical developments, lots of movies! |
High School to Adult
50 minutes
(26 vugraphs) |
| SOHO |
"From Solar Min to Solar Max; Half a Solar Cycle of SOHO Observations"
PPT (27.9 MB) |
Paal Brekke
Bernhard Fleck |
83 vugraphs of everything about SOHO - a phenomenal resource |
Sophisticated Adult
90 minutes
(83 vugraphs) |
| SOHO |
"The Sun Through the Eyes of SOHO"
PPT (65 MB) |
Paal Brekke |
Very comprehensive overview of all the great progress of SOHO! Excellent development and animation. |
Sophisticated Adult
50 minutes
(29 vugraphs) |
| Historical |
"The Sun - Our Star"
PPT (7.7 MB) |
Paal Brekke |
The Sun in different cultures, history of Solar research, modern advances, excellent overview of solar features and phenomena. |
High School to Adult
55 minutes
(40 vugraphs) |
| CMEs |
"Sun Storms: The Science of Space Weather Eruptions Our Dynamic Sun in an Increasingly Technological Age"
PPT (3.7
MB) |
Barbara Thompson |
Overview of solar eruptions, observations and effects. Lots of movies and lots of eruptions and impacts for interested folks with short attention spans. |
High School to Adult
30 - 40 minutes
(19 vugraphs) |
| Sun-Earth Connection |
"The Sun from Space: New Insight into our Star and its Impact on the Earth's Environment"
PPT (5.7 MB) |
Terry Kucera |
Overview of solar observations, solar phenomena, and various impacts. Lots of movies to keep it interesting! |
High School to Adult
40 minutes
(17 vugraphs) |
| Solar Irradiance (EVE) |
"Frontiers in Solar Irradiance Research: SDO Gauges the Energetic Input to Earth"
PPT (1.6 MB) |
Barbara Thompson |
A discussion of the science of the irradiance investigation (EVE) on SDO - fairly comprehensive and mostly stand-alone (developed for web page but can be used
as a presentation). |
Adult
35 minutes
(18 vugraphs) |
| Solar Variability |
"Solar Variability"
PPT ( MB) |
Barbara Thompson |
Discussion of a broad range of solar variability, not so good as a stand-alone presentation but lots of good stuff. |
Adult
45 minutes
(35 vugraphs) |
| Why Study The Sun |
"Why We Study the Sun"
PPT (876 KB) |
Barbara Thompson |
Quickie informal overview of solar observations. |
Pre-Teen to Adult
20 minutes
(10 vugraphs) |
| The Sun |
"Our Dynamic Star: The Sun"
PPT (8.8 MB) |
Art Poland |
Good overview of the Sun in context, lots of pictures and movies without getting too complicated! |
Grade School
45 minutes
(29 vugraphs) |
| The Sun |
"Our Dynamic Star: The Sun"
PPT (8.4 MB) |
Art Poland |
Same presentation as above with a higher degree of sophistication - better for recruiting young scientists and engineers. |
High School
45 minutes
(27 vugraphs) |
| The Sun |
"Our Dynamic Star: The Sun"
PPT (8.9 MB) |
Art Poland |
Same presentation as previous two developed to help teachers understand solar research. |
Adult (Educators)
52 minutes
(31 vugraphs) |
| Spectroscopy |
"Our Dynamic Star: The Sun"
PPT (3.4 MB) |
Kuen Ko et al. |
Excellent description of the uses and importance of spectroscopy! A development of the concepts, then the uses of spectroscopy, with references to recent
research. |
Pre-Teen to Adult
15 - 25 minutes
(16 vugraphs) |
SECEF...
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K - 2 |
3 - 5 |
6 - 8 |
9 - Adult |
Sun-Earth
Connection |
Presentation
PPT (3.1 MB) |
Presentation
PPT (3.1 MB) |
Presentation
PPT (4.6 MB) |
Presentation
PPT (4.6 MB) |
Sun-Earth
Connection |
Caption
PDF (892 K) |
Caption
PDF (1.2 MB) |
Caption
PDF (2.5 MB) |
Caption
PDF (2.5 MB) |
The National Center for Microgravity Research has developed a series of presentations
addressing aspects of fluids, gravity and microgravity which you might find very instructive.
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