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Highlights Veterans' Day Science Sunspots What they should learn. Filter your Future: View All Posts   What they should learn. View All Posts Sunspots Dec 20, 2006 // // What they should learn. During the past two weeks, 6A has been tracking the progress of sunspot 930 across the solar disc. On a whim, we checked spaceweather.com as the spot was making her (they must be female) appearence. The students were very interested. For the next two weeks, we tracked, plotted, and made journal entries about the activity of sunspot 930. We watched CMEs expel matter and flares errupt, all from the comfort of the classroom. Thanks to the unbelievable images from SOHO, we were able to see what happens on our Sun. We contacted one photographer, Gary Palmer, with our comments about his fabulous photograph; he answered us with enthusiam. We surfed spaceweather.com for information about sunspots. We contacted our solar icon, Steele Hill, at GSFC, with numerous question. What an exciting time! Getting to know our Sun a little more and being real scientists great way to spend a class peroid. View the Most Recent Blog Entries About • SpaceMatters Other Futures: * Roy Scarfo • Religion and Space