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IHY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES


  • 2006 Total Solar Eclipse Page featuring IHY educational activities about solar eclipses
  • Space Weather CD ROM (available in English, German and French)
  • Heliophysics Education Web Links
  • Sun Earth Plan Website - learn about all facets of IHY!
  • Sunworks online exhibit (1.2 MB PDF) 24 pieces of original art will make their debut at the IHY Kickoff Ceremony at the UN in Vienna. The pieces in this SunWorks exhibit were selected from over 500 submissions to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's "SunWorks" art contest. The exhibit will be available to display at locations around the world.
  • Solar wind - an IHY 6-minute movie in English and Spanish: wmv (46 MB) and mpg (62 MB) - generated by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Spain. This beautiful movie captures the art and science of IHY!
  • IHY-Europe has sponsored a special "IHY Kids Drawings" site, featuring some fabulous artwork by more than 100 young artists. Go to http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/IHY and vist the section on outreach / Kids drawings
  • CAWSES Electronic Educational Comic Books - As part of CAWSES Capacity Building Theme, a series of educational comic books have been produced at Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STEL), Nagoya University under the supervision and guidance of Prof. Y. Kamide: (1) "What is the Aurora?!", (2) "What is the Geomagnetic Field?!", (3) "What is the Ozone Hole?!", (4) "What is the Solar Wind?!", (5) "What is Global Warming?!", (6) "What are Cosmic Rays?!", (7) "What are the Polar Regions?!", and (8) "What is the Upper Atmosphere?!".

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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