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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Aster's Hoity Toity Belt

This is an annotated children's story about the Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. Learners will dissect the story for real and fictional objects and places in the solar system, and for those scientific concepts or processes that may be true.
Keywords: Children's story, Graphic novel
Audience: Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Earth and space science, Solar system, Origin/formation of solar system, The nature of science, Science and society, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Plate Tectonics and Volcanism

This is a lesson where learners explore plate movement and the relationship between plate tectonics and volcanoes. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes, prerequisite concepts, common misconceptions, student journal and reading.
Keywords: Plate Tectonics
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Geology, Life sciences, Astrobiology
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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MRC: Final Design (Grades 3-5)

In this lesson, students will design a planetary surface rover to conduct a planetary surface investigation. It uses the 5E learning cycle and is designed around an essential question: How will creating a prototype of your rover help you prepare for the Mars Rover Celebration?
Keywords: Careers
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science, Engineering and technology, The nature of science, The scientific process, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers

Learners model how impacts throughout the Moon's history have broken rocks down into a mixture of dust, rocks, and boulders that covers the lunar surface.
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Families
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon
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Solar Wind Variation Throughout the Heliosphere

In this lab activity, students use simulation results and data available through the NASA Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) to explore the structure of the solar wind, its variation through the heliosphere.
Keywords: Solar wind
Audience: Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Higher education, Graduate/professional
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Heliosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Plasma physics
Materials Cost: Free
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Microbial Life - Educational Resources

This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials related to microbiology.
Audience: Middle school, High school, Higher education
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Biosphere, Earth and space science, Earth history
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The Coordinate Plane

This is a set of one-page problems about how astronomers use coordinate systems. Learners will plot a constellation on a coordinate plane and/or plot the route of Mars Science Lab (MSL aka Curiosity) on the surface of Mars.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Mathematics, Geometry
Materials Cost: Free
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Creativity in Science

This lesson examines the different roles scientists play in discoveries. Students will research various satellites and their uses.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of science
Materials Cost: Free
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Giving Presentations in Middle Schools: Best Practices

This resource identifies best practices for giving presentations or talks in middle school classrooms and was developed to help scientists and engineers who have been asked to visit a middle school classroom.
Keywords: Classroom visits
Audience: Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Engineering and technology
Materials Cost: Free
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Mars Math

This book contains 24 illustrated math problem sets based on a weekly series of space science problems. Each set of problems is contained on one page. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data.
Keywords: Mars
Audience: Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Mathematics
Materials Cost: Free
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