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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Design an Ion Engine

Learners will study the essential components and variables of an ion propulsion system. Activities include an on-line ion propulsion engine simulation and design. Included are changes in energy and fuel consumption as a result of variable changes (dependent/independent variable relationships).
Keywords: Ion propulsion system
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Asteroids and comets, Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Algebra, Physical sciences, Energy, Physical sciences, Chemistry, Physical sciences, Motion and forces, The nature of technology, The design process
Materials Cost: Free
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What is the Magnetosphere?

This is an activity about Earth's magnetosphere. Learners will use a magnet, simulating Earth's protective magnetosphere, and observe what occurs when iron filings, simulating the solar wind, blow past and encounter the magnet's field.
Audience: High school
Topic: Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism
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Powering the Satellite

In this lesson, learners will first use computers to research and learn how solar panels convert sunlight into electricity.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Engineering and technology, Aircraft, probes, satellites and/or spacecraft, Mathematics, Number and operations, Mathematics, Problem solving, Physical sciences, Energy, The nature of technology, The design process
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Sticky Tape Static Electricity

This is an activity about like and unlike charges. Learners will use plastic tape strips to investigate how charges interact. This is the second activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide and student guide.
Audience: Middle school
Topic: Mathematics, Data collection, analysis and probability, Physical sciences, Electricity and magnetism
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Good Vibrations

This activity is about the use of thermal emission spectroscopy in planetary research. Learners will understand how thermal spectroscopy science is used to understand the composition of the Martian surface by simulating the data collection of the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument.
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, Comparative planetology, Planetary science, Planets, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics, Light and optics, Vibration and waves
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The Core of Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) lithograph

This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars.
Audience: High school, Grade 11, Grade 12, Informal education, General public, High school programming
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy, Stars, nebulae and galaxies
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Studying the Instrument Shelter

In this project, students construct shelters that have varying properties and place them in the same location, or place similar shelters in different locations and compare temperature data taken in each shelter.
Keywords: Guided inquiry, Sampling site, Instrument design
Audience: Elementary school, Grades 3-5, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth structure, Atmosphere, The nature of science, The scientific process
Materials Cost: $1 - $5
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Telescopes: Eyes on the Universe Outreach Toolkit

This manual provides an overview of how telescopes have changed our understanding of the universe and contains simple demonstrations to use at star parties to get across basic ideas of optics.
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
Topic: Earth and space science, Astronomy
Materials Cost: Free
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Space Weather Math

This is a booklet containing 96 mathematics problems involving skills relating to algebra, fractions, graph analysis, geometry, measurement, scale, calculus, and other topics.
Audience: Elementary school, Middle school, High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Solar system, The sun, Mathematics
Materials Cost: Free
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What Are the Causes and Effects of ENSO?

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects weather, climate, and, consequently, humans and their activities. In this investigation, students review and analyze ENSO background info, data and satellite images in preparation for a game.
Keywords: Thermocline, Climate change, Trade winds, Upwelling
Audience: High school
Topic: Earth and space science, Earth processes, Climate, Earth and space science, Earth processes, Weather, Earth and space science, Earth structure, Ocean and water, Engineering and technology, Image processing and visualization, Physical sciences, Heat and thermodynamics
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1
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