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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Celestial Jukebox

Through the use of rhythm patterns of sounds presented in a solar system model, learners will collect data to determine orbital periods.
Keywords: Transits, Exoplanets, Using models, Patterns, Scale, proportion, and quantity, Orbits, Kepler's third law
Audience: High school, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Families, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Mathematics, Algebra, Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: Free
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GLOBE: Atmosphere Protocol eTraining

The atmosphere (including weather and climate) is the focus of this GLOBE eTraining module. Protocols for investigating several characteristics of the atmosphere such as clouds, precipitation (rain and snow), air and surface temperature, and relative humidity are explained.
Keywords: Atmosphere, Weather, Climate, Clouds, Contrails, Citizen science
Audience: Vocational/professional development
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere
Materials Cost: Free
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Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force, Acceleration and Velocity

This educational wallsheet provides several simple illustrations of Newton's Second Law.
Audience: Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Physical sciences, Motion and forces
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Exploring Crustal Material from a Mystery Planet

Working in teams of two, learners will observe the characteristics of and classify crustal material samples. They will then infer causes for the characteristics of the different samples and the history of the "mystery" planet they originate from. This activity is from Mars Activities.
Keywords: Crust
Audience: Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Geology, 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, Planets
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Kiuguyat: The Northern Lights

Alaska Native (Inupiat) Elders and children living in northern Alaska share their experiences and stories about the northern lights (aurora borealis). The website features a 23 minute video and a series of shorter videos and interactive animations on related topics.
Keywords: Aurora, Northern Lights, Magnetic fields, Alaskan Native
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Earth's magnetic field, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: Free
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Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth

This textbook chapter presents several biodiversity case studies, including a study of prairie soil, the 1930's Dustbowl, and the importance of soil conservation practices. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide.
Keywords: Redundacy hypothesis, Drought, Species diversity, Konzo Prairie, Bison
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Biosphere, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems
Materials Cost: Free
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Data Collection and Analysis

During the last sunspot cycle between 1996-2008, over 21,000 flares and 13,000 clouds of plasma exploded from the Sun's magnetically active surface. These events create space weather.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Space weather, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving
Materials Cost: Free
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Enceladus, I Barely Knew You

This is a lesson that applys occultations to Saturn's Moon Enceladus. Learners will establish whether Saturn’s small moon, Enceladus, has an atmosphere, whether that atmosphere is over the entire planet, and what creates Saturn’s E-ring.
Audience: Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school, High school, Grade 9
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary atmospheres, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planets, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Physical sciences, Light and optics, The nature of science, The scientific process
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Why Is the City Hot?

This investigation introduces students to the phenomena of urban heat islands, areas of higher then normal temperatures associated with populated areas.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Soda Bottle Magnetometer

This is an activity about Earth's magnetic field. Learners will construct a soda bottle magnetometer, collect data, and analyze the results to detect magnetic storm events. Ideally, learners should collect data for at least a month.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Earth's magnetic field, Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Solar-terrestrial interactions, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Mathematics, Measurement, Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism
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