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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Anatomy of a CME

This is an activity about graph interpretation. Learners will compare, interpret, and discuss four graphs of the speed, temperature, magnetic field strength, and density of a coronal mass ejection as it swept past Earth in 1997.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
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Determining the Nature, Size, and Age of the Universe

In this lesson, students measure the size of several galaxies to reproduce a plot of Hubble's Law.
Keywords: Data graphing
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Origins and evolution of the universe, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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The Ozone Hole: Over 30 years of Satellite Observations

This two-sided poster presents images and information about ozone. The front features a series of color Earth images; each image reflects total ozone readings taken every October from 1979 to 2012.
Keywords: Ozone hole, Ozone mapping, Maps and mapping
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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Where In the World Are Major Environmental Changes?

Deforestation in Brazil is presented as an example of major environmental changes occurring worldwide. By comparing Landsat images of Rondônia, Brazil from 1975 and 1992, students will analyze the environmental impacts as well as the intended and unintended consequences of tree removal.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Modeling the Keeling Curve

In this problem set, learners will refer to the tabulated data used to create the Keeling Curve of atmospheric carbon dioxide to create a mathematical function that accounts for both periodic and long-term changes.
Keywords: Keeling Curve, Graph analysis, Modeling, Parts per million
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, High school, Grade 9, High school, Grade 10
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Awesome Saturn

Learners will complete one or more poems about Saturn using descriptive words. As a pre-writing activity, students generate a word list from books they have heard and read and images they have seen and created. With the support of the word lists, they will create poems.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Probability and Predictions

Students will learn about the NASA Kepler mission and Earth-like planet discoveries through reading a NASA press release. They will also view a NASA eClips™ video describing the search for planets beyond our solar system.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Mathematics, Number and operations
Materials Cost: Free
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What Do You Know about Saturn?

Learners will draw and write to express their knowledge of Saturn. This is lesson 1 of 10 in "Reading, Writing & Rings!" for grades 1-2.
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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Freshwater Macroinvertebrates Protocol

This activity guides students through sampling, identification and counting of macroinvertebrates sampled in a GLOBE hydrology study site, and understand how the taxa composition found in the sample can be an indicator of water quality and ecosystem health.
Keywords: Biodiversity, Shannon-Weiner Biodiversity Index, Dissolved oxygen, Watershed, Larvae
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Over $20
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Magnetic Magnitude Changes

This is an activity about the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) magnetometer and its ability to reveal many different types of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field.
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Earth's magnetic field, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions
Materials Cost: Free
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