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THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms

THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms. THEMIS data on the web in science classrooms L. M. Peticolas and N. Craig URL: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis. Outline. Our K-14 education plan in general Current data and education situation Using GEONS data in the classroom

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THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms

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  1. THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms THEMIS data on the web in science classroomsL. M. Peticolas and N. CraigURL: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis

  2. Outline • Our K-14 education plan in general • Current data and education situation • Using GEONS data in the classroom • Student Observation Network, “Tracking a Solar Storm” program • Grand plan: bring all THEMIS data into high school science classrooms

  3. Formal Education Plan • Place research-grade magnetometers in 10 schools around U.S. (GEONS) • Inspire these communities • Provide professional development, lesson plans, and data (via web and on site) to the GEONS teachers regularly • Use this GEONS program as a test-bed to reach more teachers at professional development workshops at local, regional, and national science teacher conferences • Use this GEONS program and data web developments to provide data to the Student Observation Network (SON) program to reach more teachers via the web.

  4. Magnetometers in 10 schools around U.S. (GEONS) • 10 schools selected thanks in part to 9 Space Grant Consortiums. • We added two schools in AK from GBO = 12 schools • Held GEONS teacher professional development workshop, July 2004 at SSL, UCB • Five magnetometers installed: NV, AK, MT, SD, OR • Data coming to UCLA from NV, SD, and OR • UCLA will provide common packets from all sites by end of December

  5. E/PO GBMs All Sky Imagers E/PO Magnetometer locations and Teachers Involved Petersburg City Schools: Vic TrautmanPetersburg, AlaskaChippewa Hills High School: Cris DeWolfRemus,MichiganHot Springs High School: Sean EstillHot Springs,MontanaWestern Nevada Community College: Robert CollierCarson City, NevadaFort Yates Public School: Daryl BrahosFort Yates,North DakotaUkiah School: Laura OrrUkiah,Oregon Northern Bedford County High School: Keith LittleLoysburg,PennsylvaniaRed Cloud High School: Wendell GehmanPine Ridge, South DakotaShawano Community High School: Wendy EschShawano, WisconsinNorth County Union Jr. High School: Holly WyllieDerby,Vermont

  6. GEONS PD workshop 2004 Inquiry and standards-based resources • Exploring Magnetism and Electromagnetism • Magnetic storms correlation with Auroral activity (substorms) • Building soda bottle magnetometers • Magnetism Measurement techniques: fluxgate magnetometer • Data taking and analysis • Graduate credits from Cal State Hayward

  7. EPO #1 EPO #2 EPO #3 EPO #10 Internet U of Alberta UCLA U Calgary GBO #1 UC Berkeley GBO #2 Archival Validated Data Non-Validated Data Non-Validated Data E/PO Data flow Non-Validated Data

  8. Data accessible from THEMIS E/PO website and SON website Magnetosphere link In the Classroom link http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/ http://son.nasa.gov/tass/index.htm

  9. Constraints • Teacher and student friendly • Meaningful in the classroom (used with developed lessons) • 8th-9th grade physical science; • 11th-12th grade physics or astronomy; • and community college physics. • Other?

  10. Current Ideas • The arrows represent the vector magnetic field (Bx+By) in real-time updated every X seconds or minutes • Each arrow would be click-able to then get more information about that stations data

  11. Current Ideas Magnetometer plots arranged on GEONS webpage Typical Magnetometer plots arranged on a webpage: Latitude Longitude

  12. Current Ideas (cont.) Present |B| and magnetic declination in magnetometer plots so students can compare magnetometer data with data obtained using a student-created soda-bottle magnetometer.

  13. Current Ideas

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