Paint the Aurora with Ice Cubes

NASA Science reports a new hands‑on activity for elementary classrooms that uses food coloring and ice cubes to model space‑weather phenomena and the northern lights. Teachers can guide students to watch the colored melt simulate moving gases in the atmosphere, linking the visual effect to solar wind and magnetic fields. The aurora, commonly called the northern lights, occurs when charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's magnetic field.

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