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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MY NASA DATA: El Niño Lesson

The strength of the historic 1997-1999 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event was captured and recorded by NASA Earth observing satellites. By downloading and plotting that satellite data, students will observe and analyze El Niño's effect on sea level height and sea surface temperatures.
Keywords: Water cycle, ENSO
Audience: High school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: Free
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GPM in a Minute Video

In a one minute time lapse video, viewers are shown the assembly sequence of the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite from its 2011 beginning at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to its 2014 launch at Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.
Keywords: Satellite assembly, Precipitation measurement
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Engineering and technology, The nature of technology
Materials Cost: Free
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Is There Life on Other Worlds?

In this activity, learners will explore the question, What is the chance that we are the only life in the universe? They determine what we need to know to predict the chances of extraterrestrial life.
Keywords: Drake equation, Extraterrestrial life
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Life sciences, Astrobiology, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Snow Goggles and Limiting Sunlight

This is a lesson about radiation and the use of the scientific method to solve problems of too much radiation.
Keywords: Radiation
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Mathematics, Algebra, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, Physical sciences, Energy, The nature of science, The scientific process, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Carbon Dioxide Increases

In this problem set, learners will analyze the Keeling Curve showing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere since 1985 to answer a series of questions. Answer key is provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change.
Keywords: Unit conversion, Graph analysis, Parts-per-million, Gigaton
Audience: Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Manual Land Cover Mapping Protocol

In this activity, students produce a land cover map of a 15 km x 15 km GLOBE study site from hard copies of Landsat satellite images. Students place clear transparencies over the Landsat TM images and use markers to outline and classify areas of different land cover using the MUC System.
Keywords: Thematic Mapper (TM), MUC, Landsat, False color image, Classification
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Odyssey of the Eyes: Advanced

This activity helps students understand the connections between remote-sensing technology, computer imagery and land cover assessment, and models how a satellite sensor communicates information to a computer.
Keywords: False color images, Coding, Image classification
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Tracking the Solar Wind Event to Its Source

This is an activity about cause and effect. Learners will calculate the approximate travel time of each solar wind event identified in the previous activity in this set to estimate the time at which the disturbance would have left the Sun.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school, High school, Grade 9, High school, Grade 10, High school, Grade 11, High school, Grade 12
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar physics, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Data to Information

This lesson incorporates sea surface data collected by NASA satellites. Data for three surface characteristics- height, temperature and speed- are used for several activities. Students examine the differences in speed of currents relative to distance from the Equator.
Keywords: Electromagnetic radiation
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, 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, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: Free
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How Big is the Universe

In this activity, students estimate the size of the visible universe in relation to the size of the Milky Way Galaxy. To do so, students will get a sense of scale and will convert from centimeters to kilometers.
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Mathematics, Number and operations
Materials Cost: Free
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