1 Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well: Six Features of Effective Instruction Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an online booklet of guidelines for effective middle and high school literacy instruction. Drawn from a five year research study led by Dr.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 2 Exploratorium Snacks: Science Snacks Online Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium. Snacks are designed to use common, inexpensive, easily available materials.... 3 Making Reading a Cool Thing: Once Upon a Time Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–12 Professional Commentary: In this professional article, accomplished Ohio educator and author Sharon Draper discusses the importance of independent reading and offers ideas for promoting the love of reading. Draper challenges schools and communities to work intensely and collaboratively to encourage young people to read more.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 4 Dragonfly: The Dragonfly Pond Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–6 Professional Commentary: This site contains many activities, literature connections, and links to other sites. "The Dragonfly Pond" is of particular interest since it emphasizes inquiry and the nature of science.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: Project WILD, one of the most widely-used conservation and environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school, is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about the natural world. The program emphasizes wildlife because of its intrinsic and ecological values, as well as its importance as a basis for teaching how ecosystems function.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: The Science Junction is a center for teaching, learning, and integrating science into our daily lives. This interactive site seeks to make connections between researchers, teachers, students, and parents through inquiry and standards-based resources.... 7 Online NewsHour Extra: Science & Technology Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: This site is designed to help teachers integrate the in-depth reports and analysis of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer into their lessons. The resource includes stories written for and by teens that make the issues in the news relevant to students and show the connections between events in far-away places and their own lives.... Career Fields: Health Science, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 8 Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Professional Commentary: The National Academy of Sciences presents an online, full-text version of the book, Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards. It offers a practical guide, and theoretical basis, for teachers, professional developers, administrators, and others who are responding to the call in the National Science Education Standards for an increased emphasis on inquiry in K-12 science... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 9 Research Matters - to the Science Teacher: The Science Process Skills Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This concise article published by The National Association of Research in Science Teaching focuses on science inquiry skills, which are categorized as basic (e.g., observing, inferring, measuring, communicating, classifying, predicting) and integrated (e.g., controlling variables, defining operationally, formulating hypotheses, interpreting data, experimenting, formulating models). Brief descriptions of each skill are provided along with a brief summary of research on the learning of skills.... 10 Reconceptualizing Spelling Development and Instruction Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: This professional article, drawn from the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III, provides an overview of the English spelling system and contrasts traditional and contemporary approaches of spelling instruction. The authors present a summary of current research in word study and offer broad instructional recommendations.... |