Happy Birthday Sunspot Plot , in which students use historical data to construct a simple bar graph of sunspot numbers.
Students identify their birthdate in the solar cycle.
Activity includes a Teacher's Lesson Plan , Activity Sheet , and Answer Key . As a result of their visit, students wrote and illustrated sky poems . For details regarding the course, please visit the NoVA LIT Web page . For more information about this innovative unit, read The Sky Touches Everyone , an article which appeared in the May 1998 issue of Apple , the FCPS professional magazine. The survey data has helped me to gather valuable information regarding the effectiveness of the planetarium program of instruction.