Solar Eclipse 2017
BEST District - August 16, 2017
Background
Monday, August 21 Evansville will get to experience a Solar Eclipse. Here is some background information, safety information, and a few teaching resources.
This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.
You never want to look directly at the sun without appropriate protection except during totality. That could severely hurt your eyes. However, there are many ways to safely view an eclipse of the sun including direct viewing – which requires some type of filtering device and indirect viewing where you project an image of the sun onto a screen. Both methods should produce clear images of the partial phase of an eclipse.
Bibliography
“Eclipse 101.” NASA, NASA, eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-101.
Daniel Watson, M.Ed.
eLearning Coach for the BEST District
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation
Email: daniel.watson@evsck12.com
Website: http://elearningcoach.weebly.com/
Location: 901 Sweetser Avenue, Evansville, IN, United States
Twitter: @eLearningWatson