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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SciGirls Cloud Clues

In this activity students investigate cloud opacity, including transparent, translucent, and opaque cloud characteristics. The activity is a companion resource to an episode of the PBS series, SciGirls.
Keywords: SciGirls, Clouds, Atmosphere, Citizen science
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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S'COOL Lesson: Cloud in a Bottle (Hands-on Version)

In this lesson plan, students participate in a hands-on activity using a plastic bottle and other simple ingredients to learn the three factors required for cloud formation. Detailed Procedure and materials, vocabulary linked to an on-line glossary, and teacher notes are provided.
Keywords: Clouds
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Signal-to-Noise Ratio (New Horizons To Pluto and Beyond)

This is an activity about the Signal-to-Noise Ratio. Learners will engage with a hands-on activity and an online interactive to understand the terms signal and noise as they relate to spacecraft communication; quantify noise using a given dataset; and calculate the signal-to-noise ratio.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Algebra, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Vibration and waves
Materials Cost: Free
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Herschel Experiment

In this experiment, students replicate a version of the 1800 experiment in which a form of radiation other than visible light was discovered by the famous astronomer Sir Frederick William Herschel.
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Light and optics
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Days and Nights Around the World

This is an activity about seasonal variations in day length. Learners will graph the number of daylight hours in each month in cities around the world and compare results. They will also gain an understanding of the meaning of the term equinox through review of the graphed data.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Seasons, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Jump Rope Generator

In this activity, students will demonstrate the generator effect, which is due to electromagnetic induction when a conductor (a long metal wire) moves through a magnetic field.
Keywords: Magnetism
Audience: High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism
Materials Cost: Over $20
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Space Math V

This is a booklet containing 87 problem sets that involve a variety of math skills, including scale, geometry, graph analysis, fractions, unit conversions, scientific notation, simple algebra, and calculus. Each set of problems is contained on one page.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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How When Affects What II: Is it Getting Hot or Not?

Students critically interpret graphical data and evaluate and discuss the difficulties inherent in interpreting and forecasting long and short term trends in this introductory climate change investigation. Graphs of data needed for this exercise are included.
Keywords: Sample size, Trend, Window of observation
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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Earth's Bright Neighbor

Learners select from a variety of fruits to construct a scale model of the Moon, Earth, and Sun. After determining the correct sizes and distances for their models, they remove the Moon.
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, Astronomy, Size and scale, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Exploring Further Relationships: Aerosols

Student teams explore atmospheric aerosols, dust, and fires and their impact on the Earth's albedo using NASA Earth Observations (NEO) website.
Keywords: Albedo, Global data images
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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