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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Where is Saturn in the Solar System? Where am I in the Solar System?

This is a lesson about the Cassini mission to Saturn. Learners will see Saturn as part of the larger system of the Sun and its orbiting planets. A whole-class read-aloud provides students practice in listening to nonfiction text and a KWL chart supports the discussion of the text.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides

Locations and causes of both floods and landslides can be determined through satellite data. This short video (2:02 minutes) features the Application Science Lead for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, Dr.
Keywords: Extreme events, Natural disasters
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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IMAGE Satellite Scaling

This is an activity about satellite size. Learners will calculate the volume of the IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) satellite, the first satellite mission to image the Earth's magnetosphere.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
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A Changing Watershed

Students will examine two satellite images of their local watershed taken at different points in time and use this data to learn about changes in the watershed, particularly in land cover.
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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What is Happening to the Aral Sea?

The Aral Sea, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is diminishing in size.
Keywords: GIS
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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The Air We Breathe

This picture book is designed to introduce children to the Earth's atmosphere and its importance to life on Earth. It also introduces how the addition of new gases (e.g., ozone) contributes to changing the quality of air we breathe.
Keywords: Air quality, Graphic novel
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2, Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems
Materials Cost: Free
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Deflect an Asteroid

This is a game which focuses on the challenge of moving a "rubble pile" asteroid. Players have the option of using bombs, impactors, or "pusher" ships. It is a simpler version of Rubble! and part of the Killer Asteroids Web Site.
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Regulatory Agencies on the River

Learners will identify existing government agencies charged with safeguarding water quality, their geographic jurisdiction, and their subjects of concern, such as water quality laws, information, testing, and enforcement, and identify water quality issues and ways citizens can have a role in the

Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Temperature Variations and Habitability: Activity B Relating Factors that Influence Planetary Temperature and Habitability

In this activity, student teams create a knowledge map of the essential characteristics or factors of a planet with a habitable climate, identifying range of inputs, outputs and variables of a planetary environmental system.
Keywords: Variables, Inputs, Outputs, Concept map, Knowledge map, Planetary systems
Audience: High school
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, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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Earth Calling

Learners will explore spacecraft radio communications concepts, including the speed of light and the time-delay for signals sent to and from spacecraft.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Algebra
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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