Educator Resources

The Eclipse Soundscapes (ES) Project invites families, science clubs, and classrooms to explore NASA-related eclipse science. Although the 2023 & 2024 solar eclipses have concluded, the ES lessons remain fully aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and continue to support meaningful, multi-sensory learning.

Here you’ll find free, teacher-developed lesson plans complete with slides, handouts, and scaffolds for multilingual learners, as well as additional space-science educational resources.

The Observer role is great eclipse day activity for students and/or their families to do together. Anyone who submits their observations online will also receive a downloadable certificate! You can prepare your students to be Eclipse Soundscapes Observers with these lessons. Then invite your students and their families to be Eclipse Soundscapes Observers as a family activity to do at home or at school on eclipse day! We hope you will encourage your students to submit their observations via the webform on the Observer Role page or have your students bring in their notes after the eclipse and submit observations as a class activity! When people submit their observations on the Observer Role page, they are contributing to NASA eclipse science! This curriculum also pairs very well with the Kingdom in Peril lessons created by Infiniscope and shared below in the additional resources section!

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)