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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 "region"

This is chapter one of an on-line NASA book, Geomorphology from Space - A General Overview of Regional Landforms. It is divided into four sections and a conclusion. The first section, The Nature of Geomorphology, starts with the definition and continues with a description of the scales involved, fundamental concepts and the role of geomorphic studies. Types of Geomorphic Analysis is the title for the second section and it includes process studies and system analysis, climate geomorphology, and structural geomorphology.

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Introduction: Regional Landform Analysis

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In this activity, users download and graph modeled climate data to explore variability in climate change. Most people know that climate changes are predicted over the next hundred years, but they may not be aware that these changes are likely to vary from region to region.

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Earth Exploration Toolbook Chapter : Exploring Regional Differences in Climate Change

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The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines. This system is subject to a wide range of abuses and manipulations that encourage incumbents to draw districts which protect their seats rather than risk an open contest.

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The Redistricting Game

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This resource for teachers and parents highlights activities and ideas to help younger children understand geographic principles. These include the use of maps and directions to find locations, climate, near vs. far, physical regions, and cultural regions. Activities are hands-on and interactive. Further reading and resources are also given.

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Helping Your Child Learn Geography

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This peer-reviewed resource from Bioscience Journal investigates the integration of remote sensing and ecosystem process models on the analysis of carbon cycling. A growing body of research has demonstrated the complementary nature of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling in studies of terrestrial carbon cycling. Whereas remote sensing instruments are designed to capture spatially continuous information on the reflectance properties of landscape and vegetation, models focus on the underlying biogeochemical processes that regulate carbon transformation, often over longer temporal scales.

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Integrating Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Process Models for Landscape- to Regional-Scale Analysis of the Carbon Cycle

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This series of laboratory exercises engages students in the scholarship of discovery by having them conduct a deficiency screen to identify genes affecting Drosophila female fertility. Students are also introduced to bioinformatics as they use FlyBase to identify genes within a deficiency region and develop hypotheses regarding specific gene effects on female sperm storage.

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FROM GENES TO PHENOTYPE IN A FLY: A DEFICIENCY SCREEN TO IDENTIFY GENE REGIONS AFFECTING FEMALE FERTILITY IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

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A culture area is a region of the world in which people share similar cultural traits. Researchers may define a culture area by plotting the distribution of a single cultural trait, such as maize agriculture, and uniting all the communities that share this trait into a single cultural area. Alternatively, researchers sometimes choose to group communities into a culture area because the communities share several distinctive cultural traits, known as having a common cultural complex.

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Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer: Culture Area Research and Mapping

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Joel Garreau analyzed the social and political forces he believed were transforming the geography of contemporary American communities. In his first book, The Nine Nations of North America (1981), Garreau argued that the existing political boundaries of North America are becoming increasingly irrelevant as regions begin to coalesce into smaller "nations," each with its own economic, political, and cultural characteristics.

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Joel Garreau: Edge Cities and the Nine Nations of North America

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Semple developed a new program of research into the human aspects of geography, an innovative orientation that spanned the disciplines of geography, history, and anthropology. "The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains" (1901) exemplified this new approach. To complete research for the article, Semple traveled to the Kentucky mountains and recorded observations about aspects of mountain life, such as housing, food, crafts, and religion. This trip was itself an innovation since fieldwork was an uncommon practice in geography at the time.

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Ellen Churchill Semple: The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains, 1901

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Torsten Hägerstrand's influential paper, What about People in Regional Science? published in 1970, argued that regional scientists should address the individual human element in their aggregate models, and examine the spatial and temporal coordinates of human activity. The spatial-temporal model that he unveiled was destined to change the course of history in the social sciences.

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Torsten Hägerstrand: Time Geography

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