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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Earth's Atmosphere

This problem set is about the methods scientists use to compare the abundance of the different elements in Earth's atmosphere. Answer key is provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change.
Keywords: Parts-per-million, Mass fraction, Gigaton, Unit conversion, Table analysis
Audience: Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Nitrogen: The Effects from Properties vs. Amount

This is a lesson where learners explore the benefits of an inert gas (nitrogen) to life. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes, prerequisite concepts, common misconceptions, student journal and reading.
Keywords: Nitrogen
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Life sciences, Astrobiology
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Aurora Poetry

In this lesson, students will demonstrate their understanding of the aurora by writing their own poems. Teachers can decide which form(s) of poetry to use from their worksheets or allow students to create their own.
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: Free
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Ancient Sun Observatories

Learners will make a Sun tracker to explore how ancient civilizations around the world studied the Sun. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 7 and up. It requires a bright sunny day.
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Families, Informal education, Parents/caregivers
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Adding Slide Rule

In this activity, students construct adding slide rules, scaled with linear calibrations like ordinary rulers. Students learn to move these scales relative to each other in ways that add and subtract distances, thus calculating sums and differences.
Audience: High school, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public
Topic: Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Recipe for a Moon

Learners create edible models of the interior composition of the Earth and Moon. Common food items are used to construct the cores, mantles, and crusts of both planetary objects. They then compare their structure as they are eating their models. This activity is part of Explore!
Keywords: Differentiation
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, Earth, moon and sun, Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary science, Earth and space science, Solar system, The moon, The nature of science
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Odyssey of the Eyes: Intermediate

This learning activity familiarizes students with the concept of modeling as it is related to remote sensing and to the process of digitizing images.
Keywords: Remote sensing, Digitized image, Pixels, Ground verification, Satellite image
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Jupiter's Red Spot Jr. Lithograph

This lithograph traces the emergence and color change of an Earth-sized storm on Jupiter. The storm appears to be the same color as Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot and has been dubbed Red Spot Jr.
Audience: High school, Grade 9, Informal education, General public, High school programming, Middle school programming, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets
Materials Cost: Free
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What is Citizen Science?

Students are introduced to the purposes, benefits and challenges of citizen science projects. Examples of historical and current projects are presented, and evidence is provided showing why human scientific analysis is sometimes better than computer analysis.
Keywords: Citizen science, Data analysis
Audience: Middle school
Topic: The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Monitoring the Global Environment

In this online, interactive module, students learn how enhanced Earth remote-sensing capabilities are used by dozens of satellites that are continuously collecting data from multiple vantage points.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: Free
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