National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun-Earth Day 2009: Total Solar Eclipse, China
PUBLIC OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
We have added a number of “Make & Take” Activities to our website, for you to use during your public events around the August 1st Total Solar Eclipse.
“Make & Take” Activities are informal or general education activities that can be adapted for public programs at museums & science centers.
"Make and Take" activities are simple, hands-on, craftsy with easily accessible materials, inexpensive to prepare, and either work as a demonstration or result in a tanglible product that can be taken home.
- Color the Eclipse Dragon
- Color your own Eclipse Dragon, and learn how ancient cultures once believed a dragon was eating the Sun during an Eclipse.
- Exploring Ultraviolet
- Explore the effects of ultraviolet rays from the Sun with UV Beads!
- Matching Suns
- Match up images of the Sun taken in different formats.
- Find the Differences
- Use your skills to compare two versions of the "Ancient Observatories" poster.
- Sunion
- Create a paper model that demonstrates the layers of the sun.
- UVBead bookmark
- Make your own bookmark with Ultraviolet-Detecting Beads!
- Solar Clock
- Build your own paper sundial and tell the time of day by using the Sun.
- Eclipse flipbook
- Make your own flipbook of drawings showing the progression of a Total Solar Eclipse.
- My Solar Eclipse
- Make your own paper model of the Sun.