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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A Sling Psychrometer and Relative Humidity

In this activity, students build a basic understanding of how a sling psychrometer is used to determine relative humidity and learn how to read a chart to determine this relationship. In addition, the student will become familiar with the concept of dew point.
Keywords: Dry bulb temperature, Evaporation, Condensation, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Temperature conversion
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: $5 - $10
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Quaky-Shaky Design Challenge

In this engineering challenge, student teams are introduced to the engineering design process, and then construct and test an earthquake-resistant structure.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Geologic processes, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Inquiry Icebreaker: An Ice Experience

This is a lesson about the phenomenon of ice and about scientific inquiry. Learners will ask scientific questions about ice, will delve into the nature of science, embark upon scientific inquiry, and will practice scientific enterprise.
Keywords: Kinesthetic activity
Audience: Pre-kindergarten, Elementary school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Cryosphere, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, States of matter, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Universe Discovery Guides

These guides showcase education and public outreach resources from across more than 20 NASA astrophysics missions and programs.
Audience: 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: Earth and space science, Astronomy
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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Ozone Bioindicator Garden Guide

Learn how to implement an ozone monitoring garden.
Keywords: Ozone monitoring garden, Citizen science
Audience: Informal education, Elementary school programming, 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, Life sciences, Ecology and ecosystems
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How Can I Use Them? Asteroid Resources

Learners will research and document some of the requirements for mounting an expedition to an asteroid; actively explore potential resources available to space travelers through research, assessment, team cooperation, and exploration simulations; develop the background to make the connection betw
Keywords: Meteorites
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Earth and space science, Solar system, Planetary geology, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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GLOBE: From Weather to Climate - Looking at Air Temperature Data

After examining variations and trends in short- and long-term air temperature data, students build an understanding of the differences between weather and climate. The lesson includes three activities with worksheets. An appendix also provides related graphs and tables.
Keywords: Climatograph, Climatologist, Data trends
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather
Materials Cost: Free
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NASA eClips™ Real World: CubeSats

Introduce learners to Cubesats - much smaller (1000 cm3) satellites that are being used to gather scientific data and enhance NASA’s space exploration goals.
Keywords: Engineering, Citizen science
Audience: Middle school, Informal education, Middle school programming, Informal education, High school programming, Informal education, General public, Informal education, Youth public
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Engineering and technology, Remote sensing, Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics, Measurement, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving, The nature of science, The nature of technology
Materials Cost: Free
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Building Perspectives with Active Galaxies

In this activity, students build a model of an active galaxy. From this, they will learn about the geometry of the components of an active galaxy and develop an understanding that different viewing angles can lead to dramatically different interpretations of a galaxy's appearance.
Audience: High school, Higher education, Undergraduate, Non-majors, Higher education, Undergraduate, Majors
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies, Mathematics, Geometry
Materials Cost: $5 - $10
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Sounds of the Sun

This is an activity about the Doppler effect. Learners begin by simulating the noise made by a passing siren.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Physical sciences, Light and optics
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