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)

Investigating Air Quality from Space: Exploring NASA's Aura Satellite Ozone Monitoring Instrument

This worksheet introduces students to the Aura satellite and its Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). Students are asked to visit the Aura website and examine OMI data visualizations to learn about emissions of atmospheric gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Keywords: Air pollution
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: Free
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MY NASA DATA: Radiation Color plot

In this activity, students will read a color plot of Earth's absorption of the sun's radiation, and see that solar energy is unevenly distributed across the Earth's surface.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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What's Hot at the Mall?

Thermal images of Earth allow for the visualization and analysis of temperature differences. With the aid of ATLAS thermal images of a shopping mall in Huntsville, Alabama, students examine the impact of the addition of buildings and the loss of forest cover on surface heat patterns.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle 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, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Monitoring the Global Environment

In this online, interactive module, students learn how enhanced Earth remote-sensing capabilities are used by dozens of satellites that are continuously collecting data from multiple vantage points.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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River Walk

Through a field trip along a local water course students will conduct a visual survey to discover information about local land use and water quality.
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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Map your Watershed

The students will learn to identify watersheds on topographic maps by learning how to interpret contour lines and distinguish adjacent watersheds by the ridge line between them. Required materials include laminated 7.5 topographic maps of a local city and watershed, and grease pencils.
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, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Sensing Volcanic Effects from Space

The 1992 eruption of Alaska's Mt. Spurr was captured in satellite images along with photographs taken from the Space Shuttle.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Principles in Remote Sensing: Image Processing and Analysis

In this self-paced, interactive tutorial, learners encounter basic concepts in remote sensing via satellites, and investigate various techniques for manipulating and analyzing satellite images.
Keywords: Geosynchronous orbit, Temporal resolution, Rapid scan more
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
Materials Cost: Free
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Principles in Remote Sensing: Earth Observations from Satellites

In this self-paced, interactive tutorial, learners become familiar with basic concepts related to remote sensing of the Earth by satellites.
Keywords: Geosynchronous orbit, Low Earth orbit
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
Materials Cost: Free
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Interactions of Energy and Matter: Dawn Instrumentation

Become a crime scene investigator! Learners model Dawn Mission scientists, engineers, and technologists and how they use instrumentation to detect distant worlds.
Keywords: Electromagnetic, Matter, Instruments, Infrared, Gamma ray, Spectrometry, Minerals, Science and engineering practices, Concept maps
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Light and optics, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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