1051 DNA and Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students explore how DNA fits into chromosomes and how chromosomes relate to the human body. They learn about DNA replication and protein synthesis and model these two processes in Web activities.... Projects: COR 1052 Detectives in the Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This best practice resource is made up of a series of five modules (34 lessons) that emphasizes the use of scientific process skills while focusing on the topic of epidemiology. Each module contains an essential question and an enduring understanding that provide a structural framework for each one of the modules. Throughout these investigations students use various process skills such as making hypotheses and predictions, analyzing epidemiological designs, and drawing logical conclusions. (cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to develop thinking skills. Three kinds of activities are suggested.... 1054 Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's “Those Winter Sundays” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" are widely-anthologized, contemporary American poems about father-child relationships. In this lesson, students will study both the content and the form of these two poems, closely analyzing how each author's use of poetic devices helps to convey and emphasize the poem's meaning. Through investigating such poetic devices... 1055 Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Dramatic Monologue Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are introduced to Robert Browning, his life, and the characteristics of the dramatic monologue. After working together to identify the speaker, the audience, and the general scene of "My Last Duchess," the class is divided into groups of three. Group members are given a scenario and then reread the poem from the perspective of either the duchess,... 1056 Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson introduces students to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with a focus on how the main character refutes the notions associated with the ideal Victorian woman. Working in small groups, students examine primary source documents to identify qualities and traits associated with the ideal Victorian woman and laws concerning women in 1854.... 1057 Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson plan serves as an introduction to American literary non-fiction writing and focuses primarily on teaching some basic approaches to recognizing rhetorical strategies adopted for persuasive effect in essays and non-fiction. Students explore various types of essays and read excerpts from the writings of Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass. The lesson plan concludes with students writing their... 1058 Introduction to Modernist Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This three-lesson unit begins with Lesson One: “Understanding the Context of Modernism Poetry.” Working in groups, students use videos, photographs, and various primary source documents to explore the individual’s response to the social, cultural, technological, and historical changes that prompted the modernist movement. Lesson Two: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” features “warm-up” exercises to... 1059 Animal Farm: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson plan introduces students to the concept of allegory by using George Orwell’s widely read novella, Animal Farm, an allegorical indictment of tyranny which uses the historical events of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin as a cautionary tale. Through close reading, class discussion, worksheets, and graphic organizers, students also consider how this allegorical... 1060 Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat." Alternating between the harrowing moments of waves crashing over the bow of the dinghy and the development of a certain kind of brotherhood in the face of overwhelming danger "The Open Boat" remains one of Crane's best works... |