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.
1604 result(s)

MRC: Spacecraft Structure and Design (Grades 3-5)

Learners will rotate through three stations where they investigate probes and rovers to learn how they are built, learn about the propulsion, navigation, controls and daily handling of spacecraft, gather, and analyze data from multiple sources on the internet, understand how rovers communicate wi
Keywords: Spacecraft structure
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, The scientific process, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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How Do Scientists Look At The Sun?

This is an activity about comparing images of the Sun in different wavelengths of light. Learners will examine solar images taken by the SOHO spacecraft to look for differences in the features that are visible in the various wavelengths of light.
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar physics, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Come and See an Aurora!

In this activity, students will create their own travel brochure or poster inviting people to visit a place where they could see an aurora. It is recommended that the class complete Lesson 1 in this series - What I know about the Aurora - prior to this activity.
Keywords: Language arts
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Informal education, Elementary school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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The Volume of Spheres and Cylinders

This is a set of one-page problems about calculating the volume of objects. Learners may calculate the volume of an asteroid, Vesta, or the stacking of satellites inside an atlas V rocket nose cone.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Geometry
Materials Cost: Free
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How Close Is Safe? Buffer Zone Development

The effects of volcanoes on both the environment and people are the focus of this investigation. Students are introduced to the term "buffer" and are tasked with creating a possible buffer zone around Mount St. Helens.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Geologic processes, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Biosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Cosmic CSI

In this lesson, students will be introduced to how the Doppler effect changes our perception of wavelengths of sound (pitch) and light (color). Students will model how astronomers use the line spectra of stars to identify elements in the stars and the speeds of galaxies in the universe.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: Over $20
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Ground Truthing your Image

In this investigation students explore how resolution affects information content on remotely sensed images, relate remote sensor resolution (pixel size) to information content, and gain an understanding of the information content of different kinds of remote sensing imagery.
Keywords: Plant identification, Vegetation cover, Digitizing
Audience: Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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What Is the Greenhouse Effect?

In this introductory textbook chapter, students learn that life on Earth would not be possible without the atmosphere and its greenhouse effect.
Keywords: Industrial revolution, Climate change, Global warming
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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Log Ruler

In this activity students construct Log Rulers, finely calibrated in base-10 exponents and numbers (logs and antilogs). They practice reading these scales as accurately as possible, listing all certain figures plus one uncertain figure.
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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Who Will Feed the World?

Students confront the challenge of improving global agricultural production in order to feed increasingly larger populations.
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems, Mathematics, Problem solving, The nature of technology, Technology and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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