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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Interstellar Boundary Explorer Lithograph

This is a lithograph that outlines the major mission highlights of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission, a Small Explorer Earth-orbiting spacecraft that is designed to map the distant boundary between the solar wind from our Sun and the interstellar medium, the material between th
Keywords: NSTA2013
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft
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Carbon Dioxide- Where Does it All Go?

In this problem set, learners will use a diagram of carbon fluxes, which shows the sources that contribute to current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, to answer a series of questions. Answer key is provided.
Keywords: Inquiry, Rate, Carbon dioxide sequestration, Carbon cycle
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, High school, Grade 9, High school, Grade 10
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Hunting Icebergs: Sizing up Icebergs

This self-paced, interactive tutorial enables learners to identify and measure iceberg size from remotely-sensed satellite images.
Keywords: Satellite image analysis, Icebergs, Pixel, Geometric
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Cryosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: Free
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ClimateBits: Albedo

This video explains albedo - the concept that the brightness of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, and land surfaces) determines how much incoming solar energy is immediately reflected back to space.
Keywords: Science on a Sphere, Solar energy, Radiation, Energy balance, Reflection
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: Free
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Atmosphere and Temperature

Learners will use the inquiry process to explore the affect of atmosphere on the temperature of a planet. They create a model of the system to test. They then create a concept map of the planetary temperature system.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, The nature of science, The scientific process
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Astro101 Slide Set: Fermi Telescope Discovers Milky Way Bubbles

This slide set focuses on the Fermi Mission's discovery of bubbles emanating from the core of the Milky Way galaxy. It is one of a series of short, topical presentations on new developments from NASA astrophysics missions, relevant to introductory astronomy topics.
Audience: Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization
Materials Cost: Free
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Why (Not) So Blue?

Using water to represent the atmosphere and milk droplets to represent aerosols, students make predictions and conduct investigations to discover how different aerosol concentrations affect atmospheric color and visibility.
Keywords: Aerosols
Audience: Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Graphing the Globe

This is an activity about the relation between day length and temperature. In one team, learners will create and analyze a graph of hours of sunlight versus month of the year for a number of latitudes. In another team, learners will graph temperature versus month for the same latitudes.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Days, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Seasons, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
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Dancing in the Night Sky

This is an activity about the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Learners will plot the Auroral Oval in the northern hemisphere and determine the height of the northern lights using Carl Stormer's triangulation method.
Audience: Middle school, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Investigating the Invisible

In this open inquiry activity introducing concepts of remote sensing, students will discuss and research different invisible phenomena. They will then test and verify the existence of selected invisible phenomena by using measurement or detection devices.
Keywords: UV-B
Audience: Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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