Rocket To The Aurora
EDUCATIONAL LESSONS
Below are listed some lessons, activities, and information that will help teachers and students  understand the aurora and the sounding rockets, and satellites that study them.
  Description Grade Level
Dawn of the North:

A Tutorial on the Aurora

his auroral tutorial provides a basic explanation of how the aurora or northern lights are made. 10-12
Television in the Sky:

  An Aurora and  Cathode Ray Tube Analogy

 

This web-based lesson compares how auroral light produced on the Earth's atmospheric screen is similar to the images produced on the screen of a television or computer monitor's Cathode Ray Tube. 10-12
Solar Wind and Magnetosphere interaction Lab

A Cereal Anology

 

*Contains downloadable pdf files

 

This open-ended laboratory activity is useful in demonstrating how solar wind particles are deflected by the Earth's magnetosphere and how charged particles are aligned within it.  It is recommembed that the activity be followed up with student presentations and a lab report.  5-8 &

9-12

     

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