Students in grades 3-5 submit art and text to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) by January 15^th. Winners will be presented with prizes at a ceremony at LASP and will meet scientists. Winning entries will tour the state.

Description of the Aurora
Fun student tutorial (used in Lesson 1)
Auroras are “mirror images”
Animated video of Sun's solar activity
Info on Aurora
Picture of Aurora taken from Colorado
Aurora photos

(All are available on Amazon.com)

• Not Every Day an Aurora Borealis for Your Birthday: A Love Poem by Carl Sandburg
• Aurora: A Tale of the Northern Lights
  by Mindy Dwyer $8.95
• The Fiddler of the Northern Lights
  by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock $13.25
• Wonders of the World - The Northern Lights
  by Deborah Underwood $23.70

These standard-based lessons are meant to serve as guidelines for auroral studies and can be taught in conjunction with contest activites or independently.

Lesson packet (pdf)
The Northern Lights movie (flash) (quicktime)
Aurora Powerpoint slideshow: What is it, where do we find it, and how do we study it? (download)

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