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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Atmosphere Chapter-Cloud Watch

Students observe cloud type and coverage and weather conditions over a five-day period and correlate these observations. Students make and test predictions using these observations.
Keywords: Weather, Observations, Data collection, Prediction
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Solar Week Tuesday: The Effect on Earth

This is a short online reading associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Physical sciences, Light and optics
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Space Survey

This is a lesson about society and space exploration. Learners will survey the public about their different opinions about space exploration and the use of robotics in space exploration. Then they will represent and analyze the results. This is lesson 5 of 16 in the MarsBots learning module.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Tactile Astronomy: Making the Universe Touchable

This section of Amazing Space features a library of selected Hubble images that can be printed in a tactile format.
Audience: Informal education, General public, High school programming, Middle school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Solar system
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Earth, Earth's Moon and Mars Balloons

Balloons are used to construct a scale model of the Earth, Earth's Moon and Mars in relation to each other. Students use this model to predict distances and reflect on how scientists use models to construct explanations through the scientific process.
Keywords: Scale models, Solar system scale distance
Audience: Elementary school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Water Vapor Imagery: Water Vapor Imagery Basics

This self-paced, interactive tutorial enables learners to discover practical uses for water vapor imagery from weather satellites.
Keywords: Weather prediction, Satellite imagery analysis, Remote sensing, Water vapor
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors, Higher education, Technical
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
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Lunar Biospheres

Learners will build a biosphere that is a balanced, self-enclosed living system able to run efficiently over a long period of time.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Biosphere, Life sciences
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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El Niño

This textbook chapter describes the processes through which El Niño and La Niña conditions emerge. The resource includes an animation of ocean currents, and links to current news articles, and a suite of pre- and post-unit assessments. A teacher's guide supports classroom use.
Keywords: Walker circulation, Ocean circulation, Economic consequences
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Physical sciences, Energy, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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My Spacecraft to Saturn

Learners will think like engineers as they are presented with problems that the NASA team faced when designing a spacecraft to travel to Saturn. Students work with partners to think of solutions to address those problems, and to use these ideas to sketch their spacecraft.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Mysteries of the Sun

This book briefly outlines our current knowledge of how the Sun works and its effects on Earth and the solar system.
Audience: Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Earth's magnetic field, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Heliosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Magnetosphere, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Plasma physics, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar physics, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, Physical sciences, States of matter
Materials Cost: Free
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