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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The Carina Nebula Pillar lithograph

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity on a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust reminiscent of a craggy fantasy mountaintop surrounded by wispy clouds.
Audience: High school, Grade 11, Grade 12, Informal education, General public, High school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
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Earth, Our Goldilocks Planet

This Science On a Sphere video and docent show (script and playlist), explores factors that render Earth habitable and influence Earth's energy budget.
Keywords: Science on a Sphere
Audience: Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Families, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Physical sciences, Energy, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Climate Kids: What is the Greenhouse Effect?

The greenhouse effect is explained in this series of related questions and answers. This lesson is part of the Climate Kids website, a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
Keywords: Global warming, Climate change
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Log Algebra

In this activity, students solve exponential equations where the unknown is contained in the exponent.
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Number and operations
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The Ring Nebula NGC 6720 and In Search Of...Planetary Nebula Shapes

This lithograph features an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, NGC 6720. The accompanying classroom activity, In Search of…Planetary Nebula Shapes, is a curriculum support tool designed as an introductory inquiry activity.
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
Materials Cost: Free
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CINDI in Space

This is a comic book about the science of Earth's upper atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere. Learners will better understand the ionosphere, the science behind atoms and ions found here, and how radio signals from satellites are distorted by space weather caused by to the Sun.
Keywords: Graphic novel
Audience: Middle school, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft
Materials Cost: Free
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Now You See It, Now You Don't

In this experiential activity, students demonstrate to themselves the effect of the optic disc, or blind spot, inherent to the optic nerve entering the posterior of the eye (bulbus oculi).
Audience: High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: Free
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Climate Kids: What is Global Climate Change?

A question and answer format is used to differentiate between weather and climate, and to provide a brief overview of global warming.
Keywords: Global warming
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Glass and Mirrors: an Inside Look at Telescopes

This manual provides simple demonstrations to show how lenses and mirrors are used to create telescopes. It was created for use by the Night Sky Network of astronomy clubs.
Keywords: Optics, Amateur astronomers
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy
Materials Cost: Free
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Water Bottles, Root Beer, and Air

In this demonstration, a plastic soft drink bottle is used to demonstrate properties of gases and liquids with respect to temperature and pressure. Calculations using the formula for the Ideal Gas Law are included.
Keywords: Equation of state for an ideal gas, Carbonation, Degassing
Audience: High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Structure and properties of matter
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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