141 Whelk--Come to Mathematics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this investigation students explore the possible reasons behind the observation that northwestern crows consistently drop a type of mollusk called a whelk from a height of 5 meters to break its shell. Students are given activity sheets and a graphics calculator.... 142 Shedding Light on the Subject Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this lesson students develop and analyze exponential models for the behavior of light passing through water. Students begin by considering how light intensity changes from near the surface to the bottom of the ocean.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–8 Professional Commentary: A subsection of A Private Universe Project, this resource allows students to investigate the earth-moon system and motion of planetary bodies. Using a journal, teachers gain insight into the students' understanding and the learning process.... 144 Water 1: Water and Ice Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: During this activity, children observe, measure, and describe water as it changes from solid to liquid and back again. Guiding questions are provided for teachers.... 145 Water 3: Melting and Freezing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: This resource allows students to explore what happens to the amount of different substances as they change from a solid to a liquid or a liquid to solid. Students investigate how melting and freezing impact the amount of three separate everyday items; water, chocolate, and margarine.... 146 I've Seen That Shape Before Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Students learn the names and explore properties of solid geometric shapes. They identify examples of cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms in the real world and in pictures found on websites.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Based on their observations of the movement of pendulums, students begin to understand the relationship between gravitational forces and the mass of objects, the changes in speed and direction of objects, and the distance between objects. This lesson helps students understand concepts related to how gravitational forces act on objects.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First 148 Investigating Natural Selection Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: How might biological change have occurred and been reinforced over time? This activity, adapted with permission from BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, simulates the principles of natural selection and requires three class periods to complete.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson, designed to help students understand the diversity of the scientific enterprise, provides a series of activities, which can be completed as a unit or individually. Teachers should emphasize the diversity in the scientific community: different kinds of people (in terms of race, sex, age, nationality) pursuing different sciences and working in different places... 150 Inventors and Innovators Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: The study of science as an intellectual and social endeavor, the application of human intelligence to figuring out how the world works, should have a prominent place in any curriculum that has science literacy as one of its aims. This investigation focuses on inventions because it allows students to focus on some of the more practical... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First |