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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Space Math - III

This is a booklet containing 36 problem sets that involve a variety of math skills, including scientific notation, algebra, geometry, and calculus. Each set of problems is contained on one page.
Audience: High school
Topic: Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Ice Floats

This is a lesson about displacement, buoyancy, and density. Learners will understand why ice floats. Includes background information, teacher notes, assessment criteria, and related resources; activities are differentiated for Pre-K-grade 2 and grades 3-5.
Keywords: Buoyancy, Density, Floating, Displacement, Kinesthetic activity
Audience: Pre-kindergarten, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Newton's Third Law of Motion: Actions and Reactions

This educational wallsheet illustrates Newton's Third Law of Motion. The accompanying activity is an experiment in which students create a balloon and straw rocket.
Audience: Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Patterns of Ocean Energy Balance

Oceans play a significant role in determining and moderating the effects of energy imbalances. Students will begin this lesson by working with temperature data to reinforce the importance of protocols, practice computing statistical measures of data and interpreting their significance.
Keywords: Conduction, Convection, Global warming, Sea surface temperatures
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: Free
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Create your own Ecosystem

In this activity, student teams will create a controlled experiment by building ecosystems in two 2-liter bottles. Teams determine the control conditions of both bottles, identify a test variable, and run the experiment for several weeks to determine the role of the test variable in the system.
Keywords: Test variable, Hypothesis, Baseline conditions, Control experiment, Terriarium
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Angle of Light Rays and Surface Distribution

This experimental activity is designed to develop basic understanding of the relationship between the angle of light rays and the area over which the light rays are distributed, and the potential to affect changes in the temperature of materials.
Keywords: Angle of incidence, Solar elevation angle, Seasons, Earth's tilt
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Physical sciences, Energy, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Multiplying Slide Rule

In this activity students construct multiplying slide rules scaled in Base-10 exponents and use them to calculate products and quotients.
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Mathematics, Number and operations
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The Earth as a System (Grades 7-9)

This unit consists of two parts, each with several activities which require students to participate in investigations, discussions, computer data analysis, role-playing, and research.
Keywords: Earth system science
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school, Grade 9, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Understanding the Sun

In this activity, learners will use the online Space Weather Media Viewer to research answers to a set of questions about space weather, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and sunspots, and explain their impact on Earth and how Earth's magnetosphere serves to protect our planet.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Earth's magnetic field, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar physics
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Recent Events: a Perspective on Carbon Dioxide

In this problem set, learners will compare the carbon dioxide produced as a result of two 2010 events: the eruption of the Eyjafjalla Volcano and the burning of oil on the ocean surface to address the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Answer key is provided.
Keywords: Time, Volume, Unit conversion, Combustion
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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