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Hi Laura,<br>
<br>
I added some thoughts and some specifics about our goal 1 to the
document on Wiggio. They are, of course, merely suggestions.<br>
<br>
Here's what I inserted (just in case; Wiggio was behaving strangely,
and I'm not certain whether my edits were saved or not):<br>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">Our goal is to take advantage of "</span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Times New Roman;"
class="zw-portion">teachable moments</span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="zw-portion">" to educate the public about the science related to </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">eclipses and the Sun. "Teachable moments" are times when the public is already aware of, interested in, </span></div>
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<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">and curious about natural phenomena which are in the news... events such as hurricanes, the aurora, </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">tsunamis, and the one that's relevant to this project... </span><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Times New Roman;"
class="zw-portion">eclipses</span><span style="font-family:
Times New Roman;" class="zw-portion">. </span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
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<div class="zw-paragraph">
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">We will anticipate the sorts of questions that naturally arise as people view an eclipse, and be prepared to </span></div>
</div>
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">help them understand the science behind the answers to their questions. Our preparation should include </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">development of materials and educational activities prior to eclipses to share with the public, teachers, </span></div>
</div>
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 35px;
margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">and students before, during, and after eclipse events.</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">We will also identify scientific topics which are broadly considered important in science education and </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">which are also relevant to eclipses. We will help people learn about these topics during eclipse "teachable </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">moments". Some of these topics are not necessarily ones that the public, teachers, or students will think </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">to ask about or to connect to eclipses. However, by helping people learn about these topics and their </span></div>
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<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">relevance to eclipses, we will enhance their experience of eclipses by enabling them to view the events </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">with a more "discerning eye'.</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">Important science education topics that are relevant to eclipses include [I've inserted relevant </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">Disciplinary Core Ideas from the Next Generation Science Standards in brackets after some of these </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">topics]:</span><span class="EOP"> </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">structure and size of the solar system and orbital motions, especially the Sun, Earth and Moon; </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">possibly also eclipses as viewed from other planets, occultations, etc. [</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
data-target="_blank" data-type="1"
data-href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
data-title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman;
text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
class="zw-portion link">NGSS HS-ESS1 Earth's </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
data-target="_blank" data-type="1"
data-href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
data-title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsess1-earth-place-universe"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman;
text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
class="zw-portion link">Place in the Universe</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img class="noprint"
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="zw-portion">]</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">features of the Sun and phenomena that occur there, especially ones that are prominent during an </span></div>
</div>
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margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">eclipse (prominences, the corona); also the solar cycle (influences appearance of corona during </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">eclipse) and other basic "how the Sun works" topics (e.g. fusion, radiative vs. convective heat </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">transport, etc.) [</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps3-energy"
data-target="_blank" data-type="1"
data-href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps3-energy"
data-title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps3-energy"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman;
text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
class="zw-portion link">NGSS HS-PS3 Energy</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img class="noprint"
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="zw-portion">]</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
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class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">electromagnetic spectrum - multispectral nature of solar EM emissions, polarization, sources of </span></div>
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<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">EM radiation from Sun (corona vs. photosphere) and how the radiation is produced [</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
data-target="_blank" data-type="1"
data-href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
data-title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman;
text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
class="zw-portion link">NGSS </span></div>
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margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
data-target="_blank" data-type="1"
data-href="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
data-title="http://www.nextgenscience.org/hsps4-waves-applications-technologies-information-transfer"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman;
text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
class="zw-portion link">HS-PS4 Waves</span><span
class="zw-portion zeroSize"><img class="noprint"
src="cid:part1.04030703.05060300@ucar.edu"></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="zw-portion">]</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="zw-paragraph">
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margin-left: -24px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">magnetism - Sun's magnetic field, prominences and CMEs, sunspot cycle, Earth's magnetosphere</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="zw-paragraph">
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 35px;
margin-left: -24px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">radiation and atomic structure - particle radiation, fusion, etc.</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="zw-paragraph">
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 35px;
margin-left: -24px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">phases of the Moon</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="zw-paragraph">
<div style="white-space: nowrap; position: relative; height: 22px;
margin-left: -24px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">history of solar and eclipse observations - includes aspects of science as a human endeavor and </span></div>
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margin-left: 0px;" class="zw-line-div">
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">the methods and technologies employed in the process of science</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">cultural impacts - religious and mythical interpretations of eclipses, calendars and eclipse </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">prediction efforts, etc.</span><span
class="EOP"> </span></div>
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class="zw-paragraph">
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New
Roman;font-weight:0;font-variant:0;font-style:0;text-decoration:0;vertical-align:0;letter-spacing:0;color:0;background-color:undefined;padding-right:15px;"
class="zw-bullet">●</span><span style="font-family: Times
New Roman;" class="zw-portion">eclipse impacts on terrestrial ecosystems - reactions of birds and other animals, temperature </span></div>
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<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 13px;"
class="zw-line-content"><span style="font-family: Times New
Roman;" class="zw-portion">change, reactions of plants, etc. - and more broadly, the role of sunlight in the Earth system</span><span
class="EOP"> <br>
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Talk to you soon,<br>
Randy<br>
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