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.
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Earth Exploration Toolbook: Measuring Distance and Area in Satellite Images

This chapter describes how to set a scale and measure distances and areas on satellite images. Using ImageJ, a freely available image analysis program that runs on most operating systems, users set the spatial calibration of an image, then select and measure distances and areas on it.
Keywords: Time series image analysis, Image J
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, 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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Year of the Solar System Math Guide

This collection of 160 math problems covers the 20 science topic themes presented by the NASA/JPL Year of the Solar System (YOSS) website, covering the solar system, planets, the search for life, and robotics.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Eclipses, Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Earth and space science, Solar system, Origin/formation of solar system, Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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NASA eClips™ Real World: CubeSats

Introduce learners to Cubesats - much smaller (1000 cm3) satellites that are being used to gather scientific data and enhance NASA’s space exploration goals.
Keywords: Engineering, Citizen science
Audience: Middle school, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving, The nature of science, The nature of technology
Materials Cost: Free
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Building Intuition for In-water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Spectrophotometer Activity with littleBits™

This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum.
Keywords: Ocean color, Spectrophotometer
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Higher education, Technical, Higher education, Higher education, Graduate/professional
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Life sciences, Physical sciences, Light and optics
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Goldilocks and the Three Planets

Learners will interpret spectral graphs to determine the atmospheric composition of Earth, Venus, and Mars, and then mathematically compare the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, on these planets.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, High school, Grade 9, High school, Grade 10
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Light and optics
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Hunting Icebergs: Sizing up Icebergs

This self-paced, interactive tutorial enables learners to identify and measure iceberg size from remotely-sensed satellite images.
Keywords: Satellite image analysis, Icebergs, Pixel, Geometric
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Cryosphere, 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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Principles in Remote Sensing: Remote Sensors and Data Collection

This self-paced, interactive tutorial provides learners with an opportunity to learn about remote sensors, and the role remote-sensing instruments play in our understanding of the Earth system.
Keywords: Sampling rate, Nadir, Limb, Dwell time, Spectral resolution, Instantaneous field of view
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: Free
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Graphing the Rainbow

Learners will explore different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school, High school, Grade 9, High school, Grade 10, High school, Grade 11, High school, Grade 12
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Chemistry, Physical sciences, Light and optics
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How When Affects What II: Is it Getting Hot or Not?

Students critically interpret graphical data and evaluate and discuss the difficulties inherent in interpreting and forecasting long and short term trends in this introductory climate change investigation. Graphs of data needed for this exercise are included.
Keywords: Sample size, Trend, Window of observation
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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Zooming In

Students examine a series of remotely-sensed images of the US, scaling from the continent to San Francisco, and distinguish the concepts of scale and resolution. At greater resolution, students are able to identify different land classes on the map, using the color key for false color images.
Audience: Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, 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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