Educator Resources
The Eclipse Soundscapes (ES) Project is an informal education project. The various ES roles are great opportunities for families, science clubs, and others to participate in NASA eclipse science! As an educator, you can support your students and their families with classroom lessons and activities that will prepare your students to be ES Apprentices and Observers in or outside the classroom – depending on whether or not school is in session on eclipse day! Check out the Observer curriculum below!
This page includes many free eclipse-related lesson plans that are aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and have been created in collaboration with classroom teachers. The lessons include a lesson plan, slides, handouts, and various differentiation tips and scaffolded resources that support multilingual learners at various English proficiency levels.
We continue to add lessons. So please bookmark this page and check-in regularly!
Observer Role Curriculum
Lesson Plans that complement the ES Observer role
Lesson Plan: What and When is Solar Eclipse Maximum?
Lesson Plan: Nature during a Solar Eclipse
Lesson Plan: Multi-sensory Observing
"Do Now" Activities
The first step in a great lesson is a “Do Now”– a short activity that you have written on the board or that is waiting for students as they enter. It often starts working before you do. While you are greeting students at the door, or finding that stack of copies, or erasing the mark-ups you made to your overhead from the last lesson, students should already be busy, via the Do Now with scholarly work that prepares them to succeed. In fact, students entering your room should never have to ask themselves, “What am I supposed to be doing?” That much should go without saying. The habits of a good classroom should answer, “You should be doing the Do Now, because we always start with the Do Now.” (“Do Now” Explanation Source: Teach Like a Champion, 2023)
DO NOW: Multi-sensory Eclipse Observations
All Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan: Multi-sensory Observing
Lesson Plan: Nature during a Solar Eclipse
Lesson Plan: What and When is Solar Eclipse Maximum?
Lesson Plan: What is a Solar Eclipse
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