Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District News Article

The District's Guide to the 2017 Eclipse

Eclipse 101- Start here to find information about the eclipse on August 21, 2017.

Activities For Home

• NASA Eclipse Activity Guide

• DIY Cereal Box Eclipse Viewer

• 2D & 3D Pinhole Projectors

K-12 Activities For School

• PBS Learning Media

• Solar Eclipse Across America

• NewsELA article

Elementary Level Activities

• Edible Model of the sun(link is external)

• How Can the Little Moon Hide the Giant sun – Scale Activity(link is external)

• K-4 focused lessons about the sun (link is external)

• K-4 Our Very Own Star Story(link is external)

• Layers of the sun Diagram(link is external)

• Make a sun on Paper Activity(link is external)

• NSTA's Science & Children - Jan2017 - Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse by Fulco

• NSTA's Science & Children - Feb2017 - Countdown to the Great American Eclipse by Fulco

• NSTA's Science & Children - Mar2017 - Preparing for the Eclipse, How to Safely Observe the sun with Young Children by Hurst, Plummer, Gurton and Schatz

• NSTA's Science & Children - Mar2017 - Eclipses and Eye Safety by Charles Fulco

• Playing with Magnetism; Exploring Magnetic Fields(link is external)

• Scale Model of the sun and Earth(link is external)

• Various phases of the moon throughout the month(link is external)

Middle School Level Activities

• Ball and String Earth-Moon Model (pp. 13-20)(link is external)

• Eclipse Cereal Box Viewer

• Eclipse Simulator(link is external)

• NASA Wavelengths and Sunspots(link is external), Esseacourses.strategies.org(link is external)

• NSTA's Science Scope - Mar2017 - The August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, The Perfect Opportunity to Highlight Three-Dimensional Science Learning by Schatz and Fraknoi

• NSTA's Science Scope - Mar2017 - Science Teachers as Community Eclipse Outreach Agents by Fraknoi and Schatz

• NSTA's Science Scope - Oct2016 - Exploring Lunar and Solar Eclipses via a 3-D Modeling Design Task by Miranda, Kruse and Hermann

• Solarscapes – plot and analyze Sunspots and sun’s period of rotation.(link is external)

• Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge MS(link is external)

• The Last Total Solar Eclipse…Ever! Math (p.34)(link is external)

• The sun and Magnetic Fields(link is external)

High School Level Activities

• Change Pairs – Analyze and compare images taken by Solar Dynamics Observatory(link is external)

• Modeling Meaningful Eclipses(link is external)

• American Association of Physics Teachers

• NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017 - Total Eclipse. An Ideal Opportunity to Practice Three-Dimensional Science Learning by Schatz and Fraknoi

• NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017- Becoming a Solar Eclipse Outreach Agent by Fraknoi and Schatz

• NSTA's The Science Teacher - Mar2017 - Modeling the Eclipse by Thornburgh and Tretter

• Credit: National Science Teachers Association (Science Scope, Science & Children and The Science Teacher) permission granted by Mr. Ken Roberts, the Assistant Executive Director of NSTA Periodicals