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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MY NASA DATA: Seasons

In this data analysis activity, students connect the idea of the tilt and orbit of the earth (changing of seasons) with monthly snow/ice data.
Keywords: Axis, Seasonal variations, Tilt
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth structure, Atmosphere, Earth, moon and sun, Seasons, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability
Materials Cost: Free
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Traditions of the Sun: The Sun-Earth Connection at Chaco Culture National Historic Park

This is a companion book to the Traditions of the Sun web site. Learners can use the book to learn about the Sun's dynamic nature, explore images from NASA's cutting-edge solar missions and understand more fully the human connection we all have to our Sun.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Days, Earth and space science, Earth, moon and sun, Seasons
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Motion of the Sun and Earth: Using a Classroom Model to Explore Rotation and Revolution

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

Students will use remotely sensed images and topographic maps to classify land cover types in their watershed. A field trip to specific sites will allow the students to ground truth cover types found on the remotely sensed images and extrapolate that information to other sites not visited.
Keywords: Ground truth
Audience: Middle school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Vegetation/land cover, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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How Does Remote Sensing Help Us to Observe Human Activities on Earth?

The human activity featured in this investigation is the choice of settlement sites. Beginning with an analysis of the location of their own town, students consider the negative and positive aspects of both natural and human made features.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Landforms/geography, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Create Your Own 3D Images

This is an activity about three dimensional imagery. Learners can follow the instructions to create their own 3D images using a digital camera, photo editing software, and red-blue 3-D glasses.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Elementary school, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization
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How Has the Debate Changed Over Decades?

In this guided research investigation, students investigate the process of science and build media literacy by studying the public debate about climate change. Students compare media articles from 1989-2010, and observe that statements differ according to the source and publication date.
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, The nature of science, Science and society
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Mission Possible-How Can we Plan an Exploration of Another World?

The goal of this lesson is for students to understand how to plan a mission to another world in the solar system. They begin by discussing the path of a spacecraft traveling between planets, examining the journey from the Earth to Mars as an example.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, Grades 6-8, Middle school, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, The nature of science, The nature of technology
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How Does Light Travel?

This is an activity about how light travels. Learners will perform two experiments. The first explores blocking light to create shadows. The second asks learners to use mirrors to figure out that light travels in a straight line. This is Activity 4 of the Sun As a Star afterschool curriculum.
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, Youth public, Informal education, Informal science education professionals
Topic: Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Light and optics
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Classifying Galaxies Using Hubble's Fork Diagram

In this activity, students explore the idea of classifying objects. They start by giving examples of objects that can be classified in everyday life and in science. They then characterize and classify a set of galaxies using their own scheme, and using Hubble's classification scheme.
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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