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Space Weather Living History: Dr. Richard Fisher

Levels
  • Intermediate (6-8)
Material Type
  • Film/Documentary/Show
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 1.2 – The Sun is active…
  • Big Idea 2.3 – The Sun is the primary source of light…
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
NGSS
  • ESS3 - Earth and Human Activity
  • PS1 - Matter and its Interactions
  • PS2 - Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Heliophysics Topics
  • Corona
  • Geomagnetic Storm
  • Magnetic Field
  • Magnetosphere
  • Solar Eclipse
  • Sun
  • Van Allen Belts
Heliophysics Missions
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
  • STEREO A & B
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

Show | Grades 6-12+ | This educational podcast package featuring heliophysicist Dr. Richard Fisher explores active solar phenomena, magnetic fields, and space weather. It serves as a valuable primary source for students to explore real-world scientific careers, history, and advanced concepts like the corona and geomagnetic storms. Educators can integrate this audio resource alongside the provided written transcript and biographical text into lesson plans focused on Earth and Human Activity or Motion and Stability. Students can listen to the interview as a standalone assignment, use the transcript for close-reading activities, or analyze the referenced NASA missions—such as SDO, STEREO, and MMS—to understand how scientists study the Sun's churning plasma.

Credit: NASA

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Space Weather Living History Interview with Dick Fisher

Aug 20, 2026

MPEG (21.85 MB)

Space Weather Living History – Dick Fisher interview transcript

Aug 20, 2026

PDF (29.23 KB)