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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 "object"

In this activity, users arrange objects according to size, with musical feedback. This game describes the building blocks of nature and their scale.

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Can You Play Nature’s Scale?

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This website gives an extensive outline of the history and results of the discovery of extrasolar planets. Topics inlcude planetary like objects orbiting pulsars and recent work being done by scientists detecting extra solar planetary systems and objects. References are included.

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The Search for the Extrasolar Planets: A Brief History of the Search, the Findings and the Future Implications

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This article describes the world's smallest guitar, and other work on the construction of objects on the scale of nanometers (10-9 meters). This site includes discussion of future applications of this technology as well as images and links to research and further information.

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Physics in Action: Building at the Nanoscale

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This site consists of a series of pages, each depicting and describing an object(s) on a different order of magnitude. There are 42 pages of this in all, for 42 powers of ten, starting with quarks (10^-14 meters) and ending with 'near the limit of our knowledge' (10^25 meters). The pictures 'zoom out,' with the quarks being part of a proton being part of a nucleus, and so on. There are short descriptions for each of the physics-related objects (i.e. quarks, atoms, clusters) and some of the locations, as well as links to more extensive descriptions. Also included is a page on units and scales.

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A Question of Scale: Quark to Quasars

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In this quick activity about size and scale (on page 2 of the PDF), each learner will be given an image of an object and communicate with other members of the group to arrange the objects they are holding in order of size (largest objects on one end and smallest on the other). Scale ladders help kids recognize the order of magnitude of some benchmark objects and correctly arrange them in order of size.

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Make a Human Scale Ladder

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This chapter continues the examination and clarification of concepts relating to point objects, for which as argued in Chapter 1, appropriate, complex/ second order, concepts relate to words like ‘distribution’, ‘dispersion’, ‘density’, ‘pattern’ and ‘scale’ and, at higher level still, third order concepts relating to point process models, stationarity and isotropy/anisotropy.

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Patterns of point objects (Unwin, Chapter 3)

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