Schools : Missed the Total Solar Eclipse ? Here's came the sun ! Resources

 

Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project

via Forbes

Every total solar eclipse is astonishing ! This Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse was visible from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. 

For many, preparing for this event brought memories of the magnificent total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

The looming eclipse on April 8, 2024, allowed tens of millions of Americans, Canadians and Mexicans the opportunity to see the moon completely block the sun and reveal our star's eerie atmosphere.

A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, casting a shadow that blocks out the light from the sun. The sun appeared to vanish behind the moon for minutes at a time as the eclipse traveled along its "path of totality," starting on Mexico's Pacific coast and moving northeast through more than a dozen states, from Texas to Maine, and into eastern Canada. 

credit: The Canadian Press/ Dave Chidley

More than 31 million people live along the path of totality, and many more flew or drove to witness the April 8 spectacle in person.

After the April 8 total solar eclipse, the next total solar eclipse that will be visible from the contiguous United States will be on Aug. 23, 2044.

Before that, there will be an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024, according to NASA. It will be visible in parts of South America, with some parts only able to experience a partial eclipse. A partial eclipse will also be visible in parts of Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and North America.

On Aug. 12, 2026, there will be a total solar eclipse visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small area of Portugal, according to NASA.

 

A partial eclipse will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Google Doodle Solar Eclipse 2024

https://doodles.google/doodle/

• Google Doodle:

"The Moon is having its day in the Sun — happy solar eclipse 2024!"

The 8 April 2024, the Moon crossed between the Sun and the Earth, effectively blocking the Sun’s light. In the path of totality, the sky was darken and the air was cool, and the Sun’s glowing corona (it’s rarely seen outermost part) became visible for up to four and a half minutes! 

People in North America (Mexico, the United States, and Canada) got to witness this special and rare event! A partial eclipse or total eclipse if they were in the path of totality.

Did you saw the #GoogleDoodle? Don't be like the E and slept on this rare celestial event.

credit: Getty Images

via Forbes

• Eye Safety:

No matter where you were, if you planned to look at or even toward the sun, I hope you protected your eyes. 

According to experts, only those in the path of totality were safe to look at the eclipse without protection, and only during totality.

The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun was through special-purpose solar filters, such as eclipse glasses (example shown down) or hand-held solar viewers. 

Solar views and solar eclipse glasses

credit: National Park Service

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

• Resources 4 all : 

To learn all about the 2024 Total Eclipse 2024 visit the website NASA Total Eclipse April, 2024 if you couldn't follow NASA’s live, streaming video of the event. 

The Eclipse is over but you can still watch NASA broadcast of the total solar eclipse as it moved across North America on April 8, 2024, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out across Canada’s Atlantic coast.

• Useful links:

NASA

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/

Missed the 2024 total solar eclipse? Watch video of moments from the event here

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/watch-total-solar-eclipse-2024/

Why NASA Will Send Hundreds Of Balloons Into The Total Solar Eclipse

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/04/04/why-nasa-will-send-balloons-80000-feet-into-the-moons-shadow-during-the-eclipse/

How Americans in the solar eclipse's path of totality plan to celebrate the celestial event on April 8, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/total-solar-eclipse-celebrations-april-8/

Monday's total solar eclipse from space

https://earthsky.org/earth/mondays-total-solar-eclipse-from-space/

• Videos:

Total Solar Eclipse

credit: News18

Education:

Well! You have some special digital resources to enjoy and learning about Total Solar Eclipse. 

Students and teachers have heres some resources to teach and learn about Total Solar Eclipse 2024.

• Activities:

Teachers can prepare a great science lesson, for sure!

• Don't forget to get your students involved in some research from themselves.

• The case of balloons project by NASA is very interesting. Let your students be curious about this balloons project sent by NASA. Why and for what.

• Invite students to watch the video above about a team of a half dozen students in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences UAlbany selected to launch weather balloons as part of a nationwide project, co-sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation, to collect and analyze data around the Oct. 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.

Hoping you will enjoy if you were not on the path of th eclipse.

G-Souto

15.04.2024
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Schools : Women in Science : Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan & Mary Jackson ! Resources

Katherine Johnson [1918-20209]

credits: Associated Press

The well known mathematician Katherine Johnson, who we know from the film Hidden Figures, based on the book Hidden Figures passed away today at the age of 101. 

Johnson is perhaps best known for helping NASA prepare for the orbital mission of John Glenn, but that was far from her only achievement or contribution to space exploration.

Portrait of Katherine Johnson

credits: NASA

"Katherine Johnson not only helped calculate the trajectories that took our Apollo astronauts to the Moon — she was champion for women and minorities in the space program and the world as a whole. We honor her memory today."

NASA

• Katherine Johnson:

In 1953, after years as a teacher and later as a stay-at-home mom, she began working for NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. 

The NACA had taken the unusual step of hiring women for the tedious and precise work of measuring and calculating the results of wind tunnel tests in 1935. 

 

Katherine Johnson working at the NASA Langley Research Center, 1980

credits: Getty Images

In a time before the electronic computers we know today, these women had the job title of “computer.”  

By 1953 the growing demands of early space research meant there were openings for African-American computers at Langley Research Center’s Guidance and Navigation Department – and Katherine Johnson found the perfect place to put her extraordinary mathematical skills to work.

NASA’s Langley Research Center, where Johnson worked for some 33 years, NASA will carry forward her legacy. Katherine Johnson believed in equality. She overcame obstacles to achieve great things and make life better for others.

She was portrayed in the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures.

Katherine Johnson [1918-2020]

credits: unknown

Education:

• Books

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly, 2017

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

This young readers' edition of Shetterly's #1 New York Times bestseller tells the powerful story of African-American mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, whose work in a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' forever changed the face of NASA and the country.

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

illustrations: Laura Freeman, 2018

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

illustrations: Laura Freeman, 2018

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Synopsis:

"Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world.

• Film:

Hidden Figures

Thedore Melfi, 2016

Oscars 2017 nominee

http://www.imdb.com/

Read the books in the classroom. Choose the right one according to the age level you are teaching. You can decide with your students to read aloud some excerpts.

Ask school librarian the DVD Hidden Figures, nominated for 3 Oscars and display it into the classroom.

The story of the tam of African-American women mathematicians and scientists, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan  and Mary Jackson who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program. 

Teachers can begin by reading the book or watching the film. It's your choice. Don't forget the activities adapted to the students you are teaching. It's important to enhance  your lessons by discussing gender equality in science and the right place of women no matter the race.

When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Katherine Johnson talks about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. She also worked on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Satellite, and authored or coauthored 26 research reports.

NASA

Hidden Figures

Thedore Melfi, 2016

http://www.imdb.com/

Twentieth Century Fox

Hidden Figures

Katherine Johnson/ Tariji P. Henson
Thedore Melfi, 2016
LA Times/ Science Now
https://www.latimes.com/science/

"Her dedication and skill as a mathematician helped put humans on the Moon and before that made it possible for our astronauts to take the first steps in space that we now follow on a journey to Mars."

Jim Bridenstine, Nasa administrator 

Katherine Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Then-US President Barack Obama later cited her in his State of the Union address as an example of the country's spirit of discovery.

Resources:

• Autobiography

Reaching for the Moon

The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician

Katherine Johnson

by Katherine Jonson

https://www.amazon.ca/

Katherine Johnson’s story was made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. 

Now in Reaching for the Moon, Johnson tells her own story for the first time, in a lively autobiography that will inspire young readers everywhere.

• Videos:

Useful links:

• Inspiring stories from women scientists (International Centre of Theoretical Physics)

• The Girl Who Loved to Count/ NASA

• Katherine Johnson Biograpgy/ NASA

• Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA

• Inspiring STEM stories from history: Women: Katherine Johnson

• Cool Things the Women Who Inspired 'Hidden Figures' Accomplished

• 'Hidden Figures' may feature NASA's history, but it resonates in the present/ LA Times Science.

• Women in Science: Explore the data Interactive tool produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did.”

 Katherine Johnson

G-Souto

24.02.2020

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