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)

Calculating Relative Air Mass

In this activity, students work in teams to calculate relative air mass and demonstrate how solar elevation angle affects the intensity of light that reaches an observer on the ground. The resource includes a student data sheet.
Keywords: Aerosols, Solar elevation angle, Hypotenuse, Geometry
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Geometry
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Sensing the Invisible

In this activity, students build a photocell detector, and use it to detect different colors of light in a spectrum.
Keywords: Invisible light, NSTA2013
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Scale Model of the Solar System

Carl Sagan once claimed that the most important lesson we learn from studying the stars is perspective. To address this concept, this activity offers a scale model of the solar system to be evaluated.
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Families, Informal education, Parents/caregivers, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Size and scale, Mathematics, Measurement
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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What is Global Warming?

This textbook chapter presents evidence of a warming climate and outlines how a clear picture of global warming has emerged since the 1980s.
Keywords: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
Materials Cost: Free
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Design Challenge - Deploying the Satellites' Antennae

This is an activity about using models to solve a problem.
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Problem solving, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, The nature of technology, The design process
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Adding the Moon: Using a Classroom Model to Explore the Movement of the Sun, Earth, and Moon

This is an activity about the motion of the Sun, Earth and Moon, specifically rotation and revolution. After identifying what they already know about the Sun, Earth and Moon, learners will observe and manipulate a styrofoam ball model of the Sun, Earth, and Moon system.
Keywords: NSTA2013
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2, Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon
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Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?

In this science-based storybook, children learn that clouds have different names based on their appearance and position in the atmospheric column. Contrails, or condensation trails, are also discussed.
Keywords: Clouds, Contrails, Condensation, Reading, Graphic novel, Earth system science
Audience: Elementary school, Grades K-2, Elementary school, Elementary school, Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
Materials Cost: Free
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KWL-Mars

Learners will create a KWL chart (What I "know" about Mars, What I "want" to know about Mars, What I have "learned" about Mars) that can be revisited to assess the group's learning. This is lesson 2 of 16 in the MarsBots learning module.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft
Materials Cost: Free
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Ocean Motion

This website provides an overview of ocean surface circulation. Satellite and model data allows high school students to investigate circulation patterns, navigation, associated weather and climate, natural hazards and marine resources.
Keywords: Ocean circulation and currents, Ocean conveyor belt
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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ClimateBits: Solar Radiation

This brief (1:37) video explains the essential Earth science concept of solar radiation - the source of most energy on Earth. ClimateBits videos are designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and also available on YouTube.
Keywords: Stratosphere, Wavelengths
Audience: Informal education
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Earth's energy budget, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Light and optics, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: Free
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