Handout for Teachers, Parents, and Students

I've collected most of these instructions into a simple one-page handout designed for distribution to teachers, students, and parents. There are versions localized to specific cities, and also blank ones that can be edited to your location.

Blank: English - Spanish - French - Russian **You will need to print it out, use a dark pen (like a thin Sharpie) to draw the shape of the Sun during the beginning, maximum, and end of the eclipse, and also write in the local times for those events. You can get local times from timeanddate.com/eclipse. There is also a Japanese version that is localized to Los Angeles.

Thanks to Franck Marchis for the French translation. Thanks to Julio Rodríguez, Cesar and Rosi Peña, and Frances Rivera-Hernández for their help with the Spanish translation. Thanks to Yoko Matsui for Japanese. Thanks to Akhan Almagambetov for Russian.

The following sheets have times and eclipsed Sun shapes specific to certain locales.

Continental USA

Albuquerque: English - Spanish

Boston: English - Spanish

Columbus: English - Spanish

Houston: English - Spanish

Los Angeles: English - Japanese - Chinese - Spanish

San Antonio: English - Spanish

San Francisco: English - Spanish

Tucson: English - Spanish

Caribbean

Western Cuba (Havana): English - Spanish

Guadeloupe: English - French

Haiti: English - French

Martinique: English - French

Puerto Rico: English - Spanish

Mexico

Mexico City: English - Spanish

Central America

Costa Rica: English - Spanish

South America

French Guiana: English - French

Venezuela (Caracas): English - Spanish

Canada

If you are planning outreach in your own city and would like me to make bilingual sheets for you, send me an email. I obviously won't be able to do them all, but I'll do some. I'll give priority to people working with large numbers of kids or with underserved groups.

I'd like to point out a few things I did with these sheets to make them more accessible to a wider audience, and would encourage others considering outreach to community schools to do the same:

The sheet is black-and-white only for reproducibility on old/weak photocopiers

I used a widely available sans serif font (Calibri) as recommended by dyslexic associations for easier readability

I planned to take the time to get help to translate the text into Spanish. Fully 40% of Los Angeles County households speak Spanish at home.

I will be using these sheets in my neighborhood elementary school. In order to do eclipse outreach at the school, I contacted them a few months ago and arranged to meet with the principal two weeks before the event. She was excited to have someone to come in to help with eclipse education, because the school's science teacher will be in Wyoming to see totality!

Want to learn more about the upcoming eclipse? Read our Guide to the Great American Eclipse of 2017!