1601 Wildlife Is Everywhere! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This purpose of this best practice lesson is to develop an understanding about human and wildlife habitats. Students explore their surroundings, both inside and outside of the classroom to find evidence of various types of wildlife.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource is actually a unit focusing on the life cycle of plants, including sections on growth, plant parts, making food, pollination, seed dispersal, plant adaptations, and plants and life on Earth. It also has lesson plans, interactive games, and activities that are available for most of the concepts listed above. This resource provides a lot of content and background information for each topic and is presented in a clear and concise manner that would be appealing to both teachers and students. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this lesson from the Ohio Department Education's Instructional Management System (IMS), children listen to a book about nature, animals in nature, or a similar topic, then explore various animals, habitats, objects, (or images) from their environment as an introduction to natural resources and their use in daily life. The lesson addresses a variety of modalities, including... 1604 Graphing Trash Material Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect data on the number of various types of items they throw in the trash. They make floor or table bar graphs to display the data.... 1605 All About Me: Likenesses and Differences Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Kindergarten Professional Commentary: During this lesson the children will look at themselves and take note of characteristics that make them unique individuals and some that they have in common with others. The goal is that the children grow in their acceptance of themselves and of others. To begin the experience, the teacher reads People, by Peter Spier, and facilitates a... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: ... 1607 Island Inequality Mat Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: The concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to are explored in this 2-lesson unit. In the first lesson, students create piles of food on two islands, and their fish always swims toward the island with more food.... 1608 Cloning Animals and Plants: Any Difference? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore plant and animal cloning through this promising practice lesson. Students begin the lesson by reading “Animal Cloning: Old MacDonald’s Farm Is Not What It Used to Be.” Students then develop presentations in which they describe why the cloned animal featured in their presentation is important in the history of animal cloning.... 1609 Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this lesson provides a sequence of activities, which range from a class discussion defining heroism to using character maps and Venn diagrams to compare multiple characters from one or more works of literature. The lesson provides several suggestions of book titles; however, any novel with a... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students use the Internet to research the history of the splitting of the atom and prepare a presentation. The focus of the "splitting-the-atom" story should be on the discovery of nuclear fission and its impact on world affairs.... Career Fields: Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First |