Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
The aurora site at San Francisco's Exploratorium. This site offers a self-guided lesson on the aurora, links to other aurora sites, and suggestions for teachers on how the site can be used in the classroom.

Auroral Particles and Imagery Site
This site presents a series of "interwoven" stories about the Sun-Earth connection as manifested in the Earth's aurora. The four interwoven stories are "The Solar Cycle and the Aurora," "Is the aurora there when no one is looking?", "Barring the Earth's halo," and "The Solar wind striking the Earth's atmosphere." Visitors to the site can choose between a scientific and a "plain English" presentation. While the stories focus on recent results, the non-scientific versions contain useful background information for a general audience. The site is maintained by the Auroral Particles and Imagery Group at the Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, Maryland).

Aurora Pages at the Athena Site
Two pages on the Athena site offer pictures and clearly written information about the aurora: "Overview of the Aurora" and "Introducing the Aurora - Earth's Great Light Show." Both pages provide references for further reading. "Earth's Great Light Show" contains a helpful list of FAQs about the aurora. Like other material on the site, the aurora pages are aimed at students in grades K-12.

The Aurora
This is the aurora Web site of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. This site offers a tutorial on the aurora presented on the K-12 level and an attractive 41-page slide show presentation on the aurora. The latter is available in Spanish and Japanese as well as in English. The site also provides a weekly forecast of auroral activity over Alaska, links to a series of brief popular articles on the aurora produced by the Geophysical Institute, and a list of FAQs on the aurora.