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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GRIDVIEW Guide

This guide is for free IDL compatible software that integrates with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data, allowing the user to manipulate data images from the LOLA tool aboard LRO.
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization
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The Lunar Disk

This activity is about the kinds of rocks on the Moon. Learners will carefully look at, describe, and learn about the origins of the six lunar samples contained in the disk.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon
Materials Cost: $10 - $20
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The MMS Big Data Book: Where Data and Magnetosphere Come Together

Designed to help students learn about NASA's missions currently studying the sun and its effects on Earth, this second of two storybooks in the series focuses on the importance of collaboration in data acquisition and analysis.
Keywords: Big data, Citizen science
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Magnetosphere, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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GPM Information Lithograph

This lithograph features an image of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite. The back provides an overview of the mission and an explanation of how it builds on the work of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).
Keywords: Precipitation, Water cycle
Audience: Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather
Materials Cost: Free
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Lunar Landing Sites

Learners will design a spacecraft, choose a suitable lunar landing site, and present their ideas before the entire class using visual aides such as maps, diagrams, and 3-dimensional models.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: Free
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The Space Place

This website features a range of interactive games, hands-on projects and fun facts about Earth, the Sun, our Solar System and Space.
Audience: Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Engineering and technology, The nature of science, The nature of technology
Materials Cost: Free
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Vertical Height of the Atmosphere

This lesson includes four activities. Activity 1 introduces concepts related to distance, including length and height and units of measurement. Students are asked to make comparisons of distances.
Keywords: Maps and mapping, Altitude, Distance, Measurement, Perspective
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: Free
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Planet Designer: Retro Planet Red

This is an activity about how much atmospheric pressure is needed on Mars to maintain surface water and why the planet does not have surface water today.
Keywords: Triple Point, Climate
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Physical sciences, Energy
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Site Seeing: Intermediate

This field activity introduces students to the concept of a system. Students identify the components, inputs and outputs of the local system at a range of biometry study sites, as well as the boundaries of their investigations at these sites in terms of space and time.
Keywords: Beaufort scale, Fieldwork, Earth system
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography
Materials Cost: Over $20
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Exploring Annual Changes

In this activity, student teams conduct a quantitative exploration of the connections between parts of the Earth system, through examination of a time series of environmental data maps.
Keywords: Global data images, Seasonal variations
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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