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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Colors of the Sun Video

This is a video to accompany the Stanford Solar Center's Build Your Own Spectroscope activity.
Keywords: Spectroscopy
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Physical sciences, Chemistry
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Ice in Space

This is a detailed lesson about space and how Earth fits in it. Learners will consider the essential question, "What is space?" Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing about space and the evidence for ice in space.
Keywords: Native stories, Kinesthetic activity
Audience: Pre-kindergarten, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Physical sciences, States of matter, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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NuSTAR Educators Guide: Focusing X-Rays

Students will use the law of reflection to reflect a laser beam off multiple mirrors to hit a sticker in a shoebox. Since X-ray telescopes must use grazing angles to collect X-rays, students will design layouts with the largest possible angles of reflection.
Keywords: Building models, Angle of reflection, Angle of incidence
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Problem solving, Physical sciences, Light and optics, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Exploring Color Maps: Using Stratospheric Ozone Data

Through the use of the 5E instructional model, students discover the value of using color maps to visualize data. The activity requires students to create a color map of the ozone hole from Dobson data values derived from the Aura satellite.
Keywords: Ozone hole, Ozone mapping, Maps and mapping
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Preventing Hypothermia

In this demonstration, the process of cooling by evaporation is related to the serious health risk of hypothermia. Materials required include a desk fan, thermometer with exposed bulb, cotton or gauze, bowl, and material including cotton and wool.
Audience: Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Draw Your Own Visualization

Students learn to identify and communicate important patterns in a dataset by drawing a visualization, and begin to interpret those patterns. Resource includes a student data sheet and scoring rubric.
Keywords: Numeric data, Categorical data, Units of measure, Data analysis
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Making a Space Weather Script

In this activity, learners write space weather reports using current data about the Sun and create a broadcast script to present the researched information to an audience.
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, Solar physics, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Log Tape

In this activity students construct Log Tapes calibrated in base-ten exponents, then use them to derive relationships between base-ten logs (exponents) and antilogs (ordinary numbers).  This is activity B1 in the "Far Out Math" educator's guide.
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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SciJinks: Why Does the Atmosphere Not Drift Off Into Space?

This brief article describes Earth's gravity and it's role in keeping the atmosphere bound to Earth. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators.
Keywords: Gravity
Audience: Middle school, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
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Precious Freshness

Fresh water resources- their quantity, location and distribution- are briefly discussed in this two-page article. The article can be used as a "reading to be informed" activity in a stand-alone fashion or can be incorporated into a lesson plan.
Audience: Middle school, High school, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Cryosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water
Materials Cost: Free
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