Storm in Space

Space Storms

The Space Science Institute has been funded to develop the Education and Outreach portion of the National Space Weather Program. Initially, SSI will develop an educational unit of three weeks duration for high school science classes based upon Solarscapes (a middle school project) and a pilot project created by Ramon Lopez of the University of Maryland called A Storm in Space.

Students will access scientific data and other information over the World Wide Web. The unit will be designed to minimize the time students need to use a computer, so that it can be taught even when there is very limited access to computers. The objectives for the unit are:

Content knowledge around the space environment and space weather
Multipoint, correlative data analysis
Using the Internet and the World Wide Web to access data and applications to solve real science problems

All materials are freely available to teachers or to anyone else who wants to explore space weather.