DESCRIPTION
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
DIY Sun Science includes 15 easy-to-use hands-on activities to learn about the Sun and its important relationship with Earth. Learn how to cook in a solar oven, measure the size of the Sun, or explore shadows in model Moon craters! Each activity includes step-by-step instructions that have been tested by educators, kids, and families. Activity materials are easily available and inexpensive.
SUN OBSERVATORY
Use DIY Sun Science to view live images of the Sun from NASA’s SDO satellite in the Sun Observatory. Afterwards, you can learn more about the solar activity you observed and test your new knowledge.
IMAGES AND VIDEOS
See awe-inspiring images of the Sun from NASA’s Earth and space observatories! Learn about the different features of the Sun and how scientists are studying it. You can even watch NASA videos of the Sun from the past 48 hours.
While originally released in 2016, the app underwent a major update in 2022 that added new activities and a complete Spanish translation.
PRINTABLES
PDF versions of hands-on activities are also available for download in both English and Spanish.
APP Download
DESCRIPTION
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
DIY Sun Science includes 15 easy-to-use hands-on activities to learn about the Sun and its important relationship with Earth. Learn how to cook in a solar oven, measure the size of the Sun, or explore shadows in model Moon craters! Each activity includes step-by-step instructions that have been tested by educators, kids, and families. Activity materials are easily available and inexpensive.
SUN OBSERVATORY
Use DIY Sun Science to view live images of the Sun from NASA’s SDO satellite in the Sun Observatory. Afterwards, you can learn more about the solar activity you observed and test your new knowledge.
IMAGES AND VIDEOS
See awe-inspiring images of the Sun from NASA’s Earth and space observatories! Learn about the different features of the Sun and how scientists are studying it. You can even watch NASA videos of the Sun from the past 48 hours.
While originally released in 2016, the app underwent a major update in 2022 that added new activities and a complete Spanish translation.
PRINTABLES
PDF versions of hands-on activities are also available for download in both English and Spanish.
APP Download
DOWNLOAD FILES
- Sun Cookies printout
- Solar Convection printout
- Solar Flare Flip Book printout
- Measure the Sun's Size printout
- Make a Prism printout
- Hot Equator, Cold Poles printout
- Cook with a Solar Oven printout
- Big Sun, Small Moon? printout
- Ancient Sun Observations printout
- Model the Sun and Earth printout
- Shadows on the Moon printout
- Color Your Own Aurora printout
- Detect Solar Storms printout
- Spot the Sunspots printout
- Make a UV Detector printout
- Galletas solares
- Convección solar
- Libro animado de llamaradas solares
- Mide el tamaño del Sol
- Construye un prisma
- Un ecuador caliente, los polos fríos
- Cocina con un horno solar
- ¿Sol grande, Luna pequeña?
- Observaciones del sol ancestrales
- Modelo del Sol y de la Tierra
- Sombras en la Luna
- Colorea tu propia aurora
- Detecta tormentas solares
- Detecta la mancha solar
- Construye un detector de UV
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Credits
The app is developed by UC Berkeley’s The Lawrence Hall of Science, the Children's Creativity Museum, and Sciencenter.
Permissions: All hands-on activities are available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).View more details. However, the DIY Sun Science App software does NOT fall under this Creative Commons license.
This work was supported by NASA under award numbers NNX10AE05G and 80NSSC21M0082. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs are those of the author and do not reflect the views of NASA.
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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