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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Investigating the Insides

Leaners will investigate the composition of unseen materials using a variety of tools - a process that mimics how scientists discover clues about the interiors of planets with cameras and other instruments onboard spacecraft. This activity is part of Explore!
Keywords: Jupiter
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Our Very Own Star: the Sun

This is a storybook about the Sun. Learners will read or hear about the Sun, its relationship to Earth, and how the Sun can affect Earth.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2, Elementary school, Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Informal education, General public
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun
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Scientific Notation

In this activity students convert antilogs to logs, and logs to antilogs using scientific notation as an intermediate step. They will thereby develop a look-up table for solving math problems by using logarithms. This is activity D2 in the "Far Out Math" educator's guide.
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Mathematics, Number and operations
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Studying Light: Seeing the Invisible

This is a lesson about the electromagnetic spectrum. Learners begin by arranging a set of picture cards; in the discussion afterwards, this activity is related to the electromagnetic spectrum as an arrangement of energy waves.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Astronomy Foundations through Art & Paper (AFTAPP): Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate

This website includes over 88 activities, where scientists put their research into layperson terms and develop paper plate activities that illustrate their respective pursuits. Paper Plate Education was an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations.
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science
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SciJinks: How Big was Typhoon Haiyan?

This article and interactive image compares the sizes of Hurricane Katrina and Typhoon Haiyan. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators. It explores weather and Earth science through articles, videos, images, and games.
Keywords: Hurricanes
Audience: Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization
Materials Cost: Free
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Change Pairs

This is an activity about image comparison. Learners will analyze and compare two sets of images of the Sun taken by instruments on the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
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, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Magnetosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar physics
Materials Cost: Free
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Name the Season

This is an activity about identifying and comparing the Earth’s seasons. Learners will write paragraphs depicting scenes or events that have recognizable season-related elements, without revealing the intended name.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Seasons
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Here, There and Everywhere Infographics

This series of infographics was created to supplement the Here, There, Everywhere (HTE) exhibit and connects cross-cutting science content (Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics) with everyday phenomena, helping to demonstrate the universality of physical laws and the connection between o
Audience: Informal education, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Families
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Light and optics
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Exploring Stars in the Milky Way

This book introduces students to some of the most unusual places in our galaxy outside of our solar system.
Keywords: Magnitude, Brightness, Classification, Temperature
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Mathematics
Materials Cost: Free
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