31 Rhinos and M&M's: Exponential Models Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In activities that use paper folding and M&M's, students collect data, create scatterplots, and determine algebraic models that represent their functions. Students begin by collecting data within their groups.... Projects: COR 32 Examining African-American Culture Through the Use of Children's Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This resource, maintained by the Yale New Haven Teacher's Institute, is a literature based unit centered around the theme of friendship. Using a variety of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction, and many collections of poems, this unit uses literature to examine African American culture.... 33 Alphabits: Computation and Estimation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students list questions of a mathematical nature that could be asked about the contents of a box of Alphabits cereal. They decide to investigate the percent of each letter of the alphabet found in a box of Alphabits.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students are presented with the problem of constructing a parachute that will have a maximum hang time. Working in pairs, students construct their own parachutes using the available materials.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students design an experiment to model a leaky faucet and determine the amount of water wasted due to the leak. Using the data they gather in a table, students graph and write an equation for a line of best fit.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson emphasizes discerning patterns and developing general rules for the nth term of a sequence. Using an eighth grade TIMSS item (how many small triangles are subsumed in a sequence of increasingly large similar triangles), the lesson has students look for patterns, find a general rule, and express the rule using a variable.... 37 Squares Inside Squares: Sequences Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students investigate the pattern determined by the areas of squares inscribed in squares formed by joining the midpoints of the sides of the previous square. The sequence generated is a simple geometric sequence.... Projects: COR 38 Getting to Know You: Mealworms: Mental Health Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students become "caretakers" of mealworms for a period of several days. During this time they observe the mealworms, record their observations through drawings, and become more comfortable with handling the insects.... 39 Stressed to the Breaking Point Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: How does the amount of weight that can be supported by a spaghetti bridge relate to the width (number of spaghetti strands) and the length of a bridge? Students gather data comparing the amount of weight that can be supported, the number of strands of spaghetti used, and the length of the bridge.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: Standards First 40 Think Safe! Be Safe! Grasshoppers: Self-Protection Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: This resource helps students develop inquiry skills as they predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves. The lessons are designed for use in kindergarten and can be modified for use with older students.... |