Total Solar Eclipse 2024 Worksheet Activity with Solar Eclipse Path
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The Solar Eclipse of 2024 (April 8, 2024) .... are you in the path of the total solar eclipse? If so, learn about and reflect on this once in a life time experience. This eclipse poster activity organizer is a fun sheet to use before and after the viewing. It is an 8.5 x 11 page, (landscape style). It will make a fun display and also a nice keepsake for kids and parents.
Please note that this activity has a US map on it where totality viewing in the contiguous United States will happen.
This sheet does not introduce the terms umbra and penumbra, but they can easily be discussed when viewing the images on the poster.
On this eclipse activity, students will fill in the following:
✶What is a solar eclipse?
✶Why is it important to wear protective eyewear when viewing the eclipse?
✶They will also view the images of the moon blocking the sun. They are instructed to color the sun. This is great for discussion.
✶ Students view the map of the US showing the path of totality. They find their state and color it, and then answer whether or not there are viewing areas in their state to see totality.
I have also included a short paragraph to tell what happens during a total eclipse and included a chart detailing some of the states/cities that are in the path of the total eclipse.
What states are in the path? According to NASA, "it begins in the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Small parts of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the total solar eclipse."
After Viewing the solar eclipse 2024: (Parents will also enjoy reading this part)
✶Who were you with?
✶What did you do?
✶Where did you view it?
✶ When did you view it? date and time
✶Other reflections
The black/white solar eclipse themed images are fun to color, too.
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For other creative lesson ideas, click on 'elementary lesson plans' by my picture above.
