This year's teacher workshop brought to you by the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program, Connecting Kids to the Sun-Earth Connection, took place over three fun- and education-filled days in July 1998.  Participants learned about the Sun, the Earth, and the geospace in between.  This site is aimed at workshop participants, to make materials used available for classroom purposes and to facilitate the extension of workshop ideas into daily teaching.

• Pictures from Workshop '98

Smile! You're on Workshop '98 Camera on this page. Watch as your new friends work through activities, learn, and have fun.
•  Presentations from the workshop

See once again the material presented by ISTP scientists and special guests.  Visual aids and, in some cases, text are offered in both HTML and PDF (Adobe Acrobat portable document format) versions.  These are the pretty pictures all of you asked for!
• Links to education materials discussed in the workshop

This page links to both the activities and programs such as Solarscapes that were discussed as a group and the sites for education in science and astronomy that some participants requested.
• Links to learn more

On this page, hyperlinked, is the list of sites given at the workshop that are useful for further information. You can learn more about ISTP, the Sun, the aurora, and space weather. Happy reading!
•  Communicate

Links to three pages here:  participants (teachers), presenters/facilitators, and the various ask-the-scientist pages which might be useful for the classroom.
• Evaluate the workshop

Please fill out our handy evaluation forms if you've used workshop materials or used workshop tutorials; also, the ISTP Workshop Electronic Evaluation is available and needs your input. Feedback will help us make these resources even more useful.   Also, you can see what participants thought about the workshop, activity by activity.
•  Updates and news

Here you can view the fruits of your labor:  teachers' ideas for activities, possible reunion information, and new and interesting sites and information which apply to you.
• Information on the 1998 IDEAS Grant Program **HOT**

Do you have an idea for an educational program or product? Would you like to receive government funding to develop that idea? The Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS) grant program funds partnerships between space scientists and educators. Perhaps we can submit a proposal together . . .