THEMIS data on the web in science classrooms L. M. Peticolas and N. Craig URL: THEMIS: A Quest to Understand the Onset of Auroral Substorms

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 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

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 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.

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 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

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Petersburg City Schools: Vic Trautman Petersburg, Alaska Chippewa Hills High School: Cris DeWolf Remus, Michigan Hot Springs High School: Sean EstillHot Springs, Montana Western Nevada Community College: Robert CollierCarson City, Nevada Fort Yates Public School: Daryl Brahos Fort Yates, North Dakota Ukiah School: Laura Orr Ukiah, Oregon Northern Bedford County High School: Keith Little Loysburg, Pennsylvania Red Cloud High School: Wendell Gehman Pine Ridge, South Dakota Shawano Community High School: Wendy Esch Shawano, Wisconsin North County Union Jr. High School: Holly WyllieDerby, Vermont E/PO GBMs All Sky Imagers E/PO Magnetometer locations and Teachers Involved

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 GEONS PD workshop 2004 Inquiry 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

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Non-Validated Data UCLA EPO #1EPO #2EPO #3EPO #10 Internet UC Berkeley Validated Data U of Alberta Archival GBO #1 GBO #2 U Calgary Non-Validated Data E/PO Data flow

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Data accessible from THEMIS E/PO website and SON website In the Classroom link Magnetosphere link

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Constraints  Teacher and student friendly  Meaningful in the classroom (used with developed lessons) 8 th -9 th grade physical science; 11 th -12 th grade physics or astronomy; and community college physics.  Other?

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 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

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Current Ideas Magnetometer plots arranged on GEONS webpage Latitude Longitude Typical Magnetometer plots arranged on a webpage:

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 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.

THEMIS team meeting Dec 18 th, 2004 Current Ideas