Program Information

Series: NASA Connect
Program: Dancing in the Night Sky
Segment Number: 4 (Watch entire program)
Duration: 00:03:35
Year Produced: 2003
Description:

NASA Connect Segment involving students in an activity that investigates the Aurora Borealis. During the activities the students use geographic coordinates to find and plot locations on maps, draw conclusions using graphical data, and convert centimeters to kilometers.

NASA CONNECT™ is a series of Emmy®-award-winning, math-focused programs. Each program supports the national math, science, and technology standards and has three components that include (1) a 30-minute television broadcast; (2) a companion educator's guide; and (3) an online activity that further explores topics presented in the broadcast. These programs establish a connection between the math, science, and technology concepts taught in the classroom to those same concepts used everyday by NASA researchers.

For more information visit: http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/

Transcript

(man)
Students, check out
the web activity
for today's program
called the NASA
"Northern Lights Challenge."

It can be accessed
at the NASA Connect website.

This activity is created
to be fun, interactive,
and will challenge your ability
to solve problems.

During the course
of the activity,
you'll use various probes
to explore properties
of the planets
in our solar system.

There are eight
interactive probes
in different-colored boxes
along the two sides.

You'll learn
about the temperature,
magnetic field strength,
solar wind density,
atmospheric gases,
mean distance,
mean density, gravity,
and speed on other planets.

Upon exploring each planet,
you will apply what you learned
to solve the following problem:

Special thanks to the students
from Brandon Middle School
and Landstown Middle School
in Virginia Beach, Virginia,
for demonstrating
this web activity.

Virginia Standards

3rd Grade SOLs » Mathematics » 3.9
4th Grade SOLs » Mathematics » 4.7
5th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » USI.6
6th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » USII.1
8th Grade SOLs » Science » PS.9
9th Grade SOLs » Science » ES.3