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Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals

Hall, Calvin; Pederson, Daryl; Northern Lights: The Science, Myth and Wonder of Aurora, Sasquatch Books, 2001

Jago, Lucy; The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis, Knopf, 2001

Savage, Candace; Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights, Firefly, 2001.

Syun-Ichi, Akasofu; Aurora Borealis: The Amazing Northern Lights, Alaska Geographic Society, 1979.

Todd, Flip; Aurora Borealis; A Photo Memory, Todd Communications, 1999.

Web Sites

Exploratorium "Auroras:Paintings in the Sky"
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/

Archive of aurora photos by Jan Curtis:
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/
aurora/jan.curtis/

Archive of aurora photos by Dick Hutchinson:
http://www.ptialaska.net/~hutch/aurora.html

Space Weather Today:
http://www.spaceweather.com/

IMAGE real-time aurora images from space:
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/today/intro.html
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/IMAGE/
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/image/

NOAA Auroral Activity monitor:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

CANOPUS real-time auroral monitor:
http://www.dan.sp-agency.ca/www/rtoval.htm

Current solar activity report:
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

Alaska Science Aurora page for kids:
http://www.alaskascience.com/aurora.htm

Human Impacts of Space Weather:
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/weather01.html

Ask the Space Scientist:
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html

More classroom activities:
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/activities.html

The Northern Lights Essay Competition:
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/alaska/alaska.html

Figure This!
Offers Mathematics Challenges that middle school students can do at home with their families to emphasize the importance of a high-quality mathematics education for all.
http://www.figurethis.org

Engineer Girl
Part of the National Academy of Engineering's Celebration of Women in the Engineering project.  The project brings national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to people of all ages, but particularly to women and girls.
http://www.engineergirl.org

NCTM - National Council Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org

 

 



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