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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 "spatial organization"

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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Students will study the following concepts based on this lesson plan: the area an organism lives in must provide it with its basic life requirements and the ability of the habitat to do so is affected by abiotic and biotic factors. Abiotic factors in the environment are explained in terms of light, temperature, precipitation, and the process of soil formation. The types of biotic organization covered include populations, communities, ecosystems, the biosphere, food chains, and food webs.

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Abiotic and Biotic Factors of Habitats (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)

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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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