{"id":1252,"date":"2024-04-01T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:57:50","slug":"the-solar-eclipse-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/04\/01\/the-solar-eclipse-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Eclipse is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The solar eclipse coming up on Monday, April 8th is a great chance to make the outdoors a free laboratory for kids. It will follow a 100-mile path going from Texas through the Midwest and into New England and millions of people will be able to see it. People who live along that path will see the day turn into night and see the faint sun surrounding the darkness of the moon, but everyone else in North America will see a partial eclipse. The solar eclipse in 2017 caused a ton of excitement, but it also caused worry in terms of eye damage. Some school administrators decided not to let students go outside to observe the celestial event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many misconceptions about solar eclipses that influence education. According to this article, it is not true that the sun emits more dangerous radiation during an eclipse and that directly looking at the sun will cause permanent eye damage. Students observing this phenomenon would provide a real-life example of this event and could be beneficial considering most states have standards regarding the phases of the moon and how the sun and moon produce eclipses. Making a successful learning experience about the solar eclipse requires teachers to have knowledge on how to keep the students safe while doing so. Take a look at this article and think about how you would go about incorporating the solar eclipse into your science curriculum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How would you make the solar eclipse a learning opportunity for elementary students? Do you have any ideas on how to teach students about the solar eclipse to learn about important science concepts, phases of the moon, etc.? How can you be sure to keep students engaged and safe when working outdoors?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/opinion-the-solar-eclipse-is-coming-how-to-make-it-a-learning-opportunity\/2024\/03\">The Solar Eclipse Is Coming. How to Make It a Learning Opportunity (Opinion) (edweek.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solar eclipse coming up on Monday, April 8th is a great chance to make the outdoors a free laboratory for kids. It will follow a 100-mile path going from Texas through the Midwest and into New England and millions &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/04\/01\/the-solar-eclipse-is-coming\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}