NASA Wavelength Resources Collection

NASA Wavelength is a collection of resources that incorporate NASA content and have been subject to peer review. You can search this collection using key words and/or the drop down menus to pinpoint resources to use with your audience of learners.
163 result(s)

Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides

Locations and causes of both floods and landslides can be determined through satellite data. This short video (2:02 minutes) features the Application Science Lead for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, Dr.
Keywords: Extreme events, Natural disasters
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) Interactive

In this online interactive, learners will explore how scientists learn about the composition of an asteroid by studying energy and neutrons that emanate from it. Includes audio (and transcription) explaining the diagram.
Keywords: Cosmic ray, Neutron capture, Radioactive
Audience: High school, Grade 11, High school, Grade 12, Higher education
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
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IBEX: Explorador de la Frontera Interestelar

This is a poster that outlines the major mission highlights of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission, a Small Explorer Earth-orbiting spacecraft that is mapping the distant boundary between the solar wind from our Sun and the interstellar medium, the material between the stars.
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Heliosphere, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
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Numbers to Pictures: How Satellite Images are Created

This activity introduces the primary colors of light. Satellites transmit images to us as a series of numbers, and this activity is designed to show how numbers are combined to create images using the primary colors of light.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: $10 - $20
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Hunting Icebergs: Tracking Icebergs

This self-paced, interactive tutorial teaches how to estimate the travel time, acceleration, and trajectory of iceberg movement from satellite images. Factors that impact the complex motion of icebergs, such as weather, ice processes and oceanographic influences are also explored.
Keywords: Ross Ice Shelf, McMurdo, Ice calving
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Cryosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: Free
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Earth Exploration Toolbook: Exploring Regional Differences in Climate Change

In this activity, users download and graph modeled climate data to explore variability in climate change. Most people know that climate changes are predicted over the next hundred years, but they may not be aware that these changes are likely to vary from region to region.
Keywords: Global Warming, Ecosystems and Environmental Change, Climate Variability, Authentic data use
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Life sciences, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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MY NASA DATA: March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildfire Migration

In this data analysis activity, Students will use NASA satellite data to study temperature and snow-ice coverage in the South Beaufort Sea, Alaska.
Keywords: Polar bear, Climate change, Sea ice
Audience: High school, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9, Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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MY NASA DATA: Ocean Impacts of an El Niño Event

El Niño impacts sea surface height, sea surface temperature and wind vectors. In this lesson, data for each of those three characteristics from the 1997-98 El Niño event will be analyzed and compared.
Keywords: Sea surface temperature, Sea surface height, El Nino, Wind vectors
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Coastal Upwelling: Upwelling and Remote Sensing-Other Considerations

This self-paced, interactive tutorial examines upwelling in non-coastal regions of the ocean as well as the factors that influence algal blooms.
Keywords: Eppley curve, Equatorial upwelling, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), Turbidity, Primary productivity
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems
Materials Cost: Free
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A Changing Watershed

Students will examine two satellite images of their local watershed taken at different points in time and use this data to learn about changes in the watershed, particularly in land cover.
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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