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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Lander Design

Learners will design and built a prototype robot. This is lesson 14 of 16 in the MarsBots learning module.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Dividing Multi-Digit Whole Numbers

Students will learn about satellites that gather data about Earth systems by reading a NASA press release and viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment. Then students will practice dividing multi-digit numbers using satellite data related to the Earth's ozone layer.
Keywords: Ozone data
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Number and operations
Materials Cost: Free
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Mission: Solar System - Soft Landing

Learners design and build an airbag system that can safely land an egg dropped from a height of 3' onto the floor. This resource includes a challenge video, leader notes, and handouts.
Keywords: Potential and kinetic energy, Law of Conservation of Energy, Force, Engineering design, Airbag-landing systems, Careers
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Engineering and technology, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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What is the Difference between Heat and Temperature?

In this laboratory activity, learners explore the difference between heat and temperature, and explore the rate of heat transfer from one substance to another as it depends on the density of the substances being investigated. The activity can be conducted either in a science lab or in a kitchen.
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Days, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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The Earth as a System (Grades 10-12)

Students are introduced to the carbon cycle through discussion, modeling and a game. Students then complete activities and investigations on Greenhouse gasses, photosynthesis, cellular respiration and ecosystem services (functions and values of intact ecosystems to humans).
Keywords: Carbon cycle, Photosynthesis, Greenhouse effect, Earth system science
Audience: High school, Grade 10, High school, Grade 11, High school, Grade 12, Informal education, High school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Count Your Lucky Stars: Sampling in Astronomy

This is an activity about sampling in astronomy. Learners will make a sampling window in order to estimate the number of stars in the sky visible to the unaided eye.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations
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Induction in an Aluminum Can

This activity demonstrates Lenz's Law, which states that an induced electromotive force generates a current that induces a counter magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field generating the current.
Keywords: Magnetism, Lenz's Law
Audience: High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Does Air Have Weight?

This experimental activity is designed to develop an understanding that air has mass. Students conduct an investigation and observe the change in the position of a bar balancing a balloon inflated with air on one end and a uninflated balloon on the other end.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Physical sciences, Structure and properties of matter, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Invisible Collisions (New Horizons To Pluto and Beyond)

This is a lesson about using gravity to assist in spacecraft navigation. Learners will relate an elastic collision to the change in a satellite's or spacecraft's speed and direction resulting from a planetary fly-by, often called a "gravity assist" maneuver.
Keywords: Navigation
Audience: High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Astrobiobound! The Search for Life in the Solar System

Students combine science and systems engineering to develop a mission to search for life in our solar system. The mission must meet budgetary, mass and power constraints while still producing significant science.
Keywords: Astrobiology
Audience: Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Life sciences, Astrobiology, The nature of science, The scientific process, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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