HelioZines: Share Sun Science, YOUR Way!

Empower your students to better understand sun science and science communication by researching and creating their own handmade “zine” publication! Their work will showcase an area of heliophysics, the study of the Sun and all it influences. This three-part activity provides a multimodal, multisensory avenue for learning that engages multiple STEAM principles. Note: while we present this lesson in collaboration with the Heliophysics Big Year, it can easily be adapted to any subject matter.

Did you know?

Every 11 years, the Sun reverses its poles. This causes active times and quite times.

In the corona, we can see the structure of the sun's complex magnetic field and the hot plasma flowing out of the sun.

Solar radio waves can be detected using simple radio telescopes.

Auroras are made of many tiny flashes of light produced by high energy particles in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

An active sun producing disturbances such as solar flares and geomagnetic storm can affect radio wave propagation.