Educator Resources

The Eclipse Soundscapes: Citizen Science Project is an informal education project. However, to participate in this project, people needed to have a foundational understanding of many solar eclipse and scientific process concepts. Therefore, we are creating lots of eclipse and scientific process learning resources, which we believe will also be valuable in the classroom!

We are starting to add resources now with the intention that by the Fall of 2023 this page will include many free eclipse related lesson plans that are aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Many of these will include scaffolded resources that support multilingual learners at various English proficiency levels. That’s just in time for the 2023/2024 school year, which includes the October 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 2024 total solar eclipse!

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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)