NASA PUNCH Outreach Creates Learning Activities that Celebrate Diverse Views of Our Sun, Eclipsed or Not

The multi-institutional, multi-cultural, and multi-generational outreach team embedded in the NASA PUNCH mission has developed a well-vetted suite of novel Sun-related learning products and activities to prepare for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses and beyond. Our signature products include the 3-Hole-PUNCH pinhole projector, the PUNCH Team Cards, and our thermoform tactile-art representations of the Sun's corona developed in collaboration with blind learners. All activities align with our Ancient and Modern Sun-watching <https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_outreach_overview.php> theme and thus are of enduring value for education and outreach beyond the eclipses. The PUNCH Outreach theme includes our own personal Sun-watching experiences (whether they are everyday sunsets, or more exotic events like eclipses) and invites us to commune across time, space, and culture with our Sun-watching ancestors and with our NASA Sun-watching missions. While observing the solar corona during the totality phases of the April 2024 solar eclipse the Sun is at a time of high solar activity and thus we have a special opportunity to commune with Chaco Sun-watchers who may have recorded their impression of a stormy corona during the 1097 eclipse in an unusual curlicued petroglyph. PUNCH Outreach is among the numerous groups contributing to the NASA Heliophysics Big Year. We are celebrating NASA and natural wonders, including the 2024 eclipse, Parker Solar Probe's closest pass through the corona in December 2024, and the 2025 PUNCH launch. We intend that the arts-integrated, multicultural, multisensory character of our PUNCH Outreach activities help prepare you for meaningful witnessing of these events and for ongoing attention to the extraordinary, ordinary star upon which all our lives depend.