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.
1604 result(s)

Can You See the Flag on the Moon? Handout

Keywords: Flag on the Moon, Apollo, Scale, Telescope
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Measurement, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Apollo Missions to the Lunar Surface Infographic

Keywords: Apollo Missions, Lunar Samples, Moon Rocks, Exploring the Moon, Lunar Surface Activities, Human Exploration of the Moon
Audience: Elementary school, High school, Informal education, Middle school
Topic: Solar system, The moon, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft
Materials Cost: Free
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Chandra 20th Related Products

Keywords: Stars, Space, Astronomy, Chandra, X-ray
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Astronomy, Origins and evolution of the universe, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
Materials Cost: Free
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Worlds Apart: Engineering Remote Sensing Devices

Keywords: Remote sensing, LIDAR, Engineering design process, Optical filter, Periscope, Topography, Criteria, Constraint
Audience: Informal education, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Light and optics, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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NASA eClips 4D Guide Lites: Objects at Rest Spotlite Interactive Lesson

Keywords: Motion, Force, Gravity, Balanced forces, Newton's Laws of Motion, Inertia
Audience: Grades 3-5, Informal education
Topic: Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: Free
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Moon Poster Set

The three individual posters in this set contain both grap
Keywords: spectroscopy, lunar exploration
Audience: High school, Grade 9, Informal education, Middle school
Topic: Origin/formation of solar system, Planetary geology, The moon, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Cloudy vs. Clear

In this activity, students will examine line plots of NASA data and see that the sun heats up land, air, and water. Students will practice drawing conclusions based on graphed data of cloudy vs. clear sky observations.
Keywords: Clear sky image, Cloudy sky image, Watts per meter
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science
Materials Cost: Free
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MRC: Overview of the Solar System (Grades 3-5)

This is a lesson about the size and scale of planets in the solar system. Learners will kinesthetically model the order of the planets outward from the sun. Then they will use a string and beads to create a model to represent the relative distances between the planets.
Keywords: Kinesthetic activity
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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The Incredible Two-Inch Universe

In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of the universe by shrinking cosmic scale in 4 steps, zooming out from the realm of the Earth and Moon to the realm of the galaxies. This informational brochure was designed as a follow-up take-home activity for teen and adult audiences.
Audience: Informal education, General public, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Stellar Evolution: Our Cosmic Connection

In this activity, students use multiwavelength images of stars in different stages of evolution to investigate how the initial masses of the protostars determines their evolutionary paths.
Audience: Informal education, General public, High school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
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