The
Northern Lights Planetarium
This site contains helpful facts and information as well as links to
information.
Scientific
Experiments
You can create a solar storm in a bottle and learn about the aurora
borealis by using the lesson plan found at this site.
Northern
Lights and Climate
This web site provides information about the technique once used which
used observations of northern lights to help predict weather
forecasts.
Newton’s
Apple
What causes the Aurora? Make the discovery!
Atmospheric
Phenomena
This grade 9th –12th grade learning project
encourages students to use the Internet as a tool to discovery.
You
Light Up My Life
This 6th –12th grade lesson explains the
Aurora.
Northern
Lights and Sound
Is it raining and thundering outside your
classroom? Try this 15-minute lesson that can be used with any classroom
and any age of students.
Thursday’s
Classroom
This site contains a lesson plan entitled Aurora Arithmetic in
which the objective is to convert units of time in applications dealing
with historic observations.
P.o.e.t.r.y.
View classroom activities that were designed to use with the Northern
Lights as the theme. (PDF Format)
Aurora Watch
Create your own magnetometer to help you predict the possibility of
aurora activities in your area. Click on Build a Detector!
Liquid
Nitrogen Simulation of Aurora Borealis
This site provides information on conducting a laboratory experiment to
create the North Pole with a magnetic field.
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