If your school district is in the “path of totality” for this spring’s solar eclipse, you and your community are in line for a once-in-a-liftetime learning experience. The total solar eclipse coming on April 8 is surely the kind of opportunity that should get superintendents looking back fondly on their teaching daysso listed below are ideas to share with teachers for bringing this celestial spectacle down to earthfor your students.
Safety, of course, is always on every superintendent’s mind. Here’s without harming your eyesight.
K12 educators can expand the lessons beyond science and STEM, advises Paige Walling, SwiSTEM Services Coordinator at the University of Southern Indiana. The university is inviting K12 students to a “” celebration on the day of the eclipse.
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“Lets also look at how eclipses are written about in literature; lets look at the art,” Walling notes. “We’d like to school pull all that in. In pretty much any discipline, there’s something related to eclipses.”
The University of Southern Indiana has for elementary to high school. Students can analyze Emily Dickinson’s 1891 eclipse poem, “” or estimate the speed of the lunar shadow.
The National Science Teaching Association has posted to help educators make the most of the solar eclipse. In the guide written specifically for administrations, it suggests educators can tie the eclipse into various state standards, such as the phases of the moon.
Here’s what else is out there:
- shows the “path of totality,” or the areas over which the total eclipse will occur. If you’re on the West Coast or in Florida, you’re out of luck.
(NASA) Click photo for the full eclipse schedule and other information. - The American Astronomical Society has published and on how teachers can prepare for the eclipse.
- is sharing ideas for activities and experiments along with animations and lists of viewing equipment.
- Here are from the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
- Vernier Science Education shared ““
