THEMIS data on the web in science classrooms

L. M. Peticolas and N. Craig

URL: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis

THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms

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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

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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.

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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

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Petersburg City Schools: Vic Trautman Petersburg, AlaskaChippewa Hills High School: Cris DeWolf Remus, MichiganHot Springs High School: Sean Estill Hot Springs, MontanaWestern Nevada Community College: Robert Collier Carson City, NevadaFort Yates Public School: Daryl Brahos Fort Yates, North DakotaUkiah School: Laura Orr Ukiah, Oregon Northern Bedford County High School: Keith Little Loysburg, PennsylvaniaRed Cloud High School: Wendell Gehman Pine Ridge, South DakotaShawano Community High School: Wendy Esch Shawano, WisconsinNorth County Union Jr. High School: Holly Wyllie Derby, Vermont

E/PO GBMs All Sky Imagers

E/PO Magnetometer locations and Teachers Involved

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GEONS PD workshop 2004Inquiry 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

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Non-Validated Data

UCLA

EPO #1 EPO #2 EPO #3 EPO #10

Internet

UC Berkeley

Validated Data

U of Alberta

Archival

GBO #1

GBO #2

U Calgary

Non-Validated Data

Non-Validated Data

E/PO Data flow

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Data accessible from THEMIS E/PO website and SON website

In the Classroom link

http://son.nasa.gov/tass/index.htmhttp://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/

Magnetosphere link

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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?

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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

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Current IdeasMagnetometer plots arranged on GEONS webpage

Latitude

Longitude

Typical Magnetometer plots arranged on a webpage:

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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.

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Current Ideas