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We have annotated several hundred teaching resources cataloged in the National Science Digital Library with spatial concept terms listed below. We have also created a new TeachSpatial collection annotated in the same way. The concept terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

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NSDL teaching resources related to "motion"

This web page illustrates the motion of a quantum wavepacket, using 3D animations. Basic concepts and phenomena are shown using simulations rather than complex mathematics, although the functional forms of the states are given. Motion of a free wavepacket, and a wavepacket in a box, an harmonic oscillator, an electric field, and a magnetic field are all described and shown.

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Motion in a Potential

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The objective of this activity is to teach students the concept of periodic motion and relate it to the movement of a pendulum. Students use different sized, colored bobs to test the effect of amplitude on period.

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Periodic Motion - The Pendulum

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This demonstration of plate tectonic principles, plate boundary interactions, and the geometry and relative motions of faulting of geologic layers uses 3-D foam models. The models aid in visualization and understanding of plate motions and faulting because they are three-dimensional, concrete rather than abstract descriptions or diagrams, can be manipulated by the instructor and the students, and can show the motions of the plates and faults through time in addition to the three-dimensional configuration of the plates or layers.

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Teaching about Plate Tectonics and Faulting Using Foam Models

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This lesson introduces students to the motion of the Foucault pendulum. Following the lesson, students should be able to explain how the motion of Foucault's pendulum proves the earth is rotating. Supplemental animations and interactive websites/simulations are provided.

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Foucault's Pendulum

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A simple applet where the user can define the number of molecules and the ratios between a molecule and the surrounding molecules. Watch the effects of mass difference and Brownian Motion.

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Brownian Motion

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The Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Motion covers the philosophical discourse of major ideas of space and motion. Readers can navigate with the table of contents or scroll through the material.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Motion

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Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium (solid, liquid, or gas) at a wave speed which depends on the elastic and inertial properties of that medium. There are two basic types of wave motion for mechanical waves: longitudinal waves and transverse waves.

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Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion

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Oblique subduction results in distinct sets of faults with either just thrust or mainly strike/slip motion and that back-arc thrust belts show little oblique strain compared to forearc areas.

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Partitioning of thrust and strike/slip faulting in oblique subduction

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This peer-reviewed article from BioScience is about vibrational communication in insects. Vibrational communication is widespread in insect social and ecological interactions. Of the insect species that communicate using sound, water surface ripples, or substrate vibrations, we estimate that 92% use substrate vibrations alone or with other forms of mechanical signaling. Vibrational signals differ dramatically from airborne insect sounds, often having low frequencies, pure tones, and combinations of contrasting acoustic elements.

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The Behavioral Ecology of Insect Vibrational Communication

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Vorticella show rapid and slow motions that may be detected using video microscopy.

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Video Microscopy Shows Behavior of Vorticella Colonizing Lemna

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