491 Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: Letter poems, where communicating a message is central, make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun for children. Letter poems are also a good medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry--line breaks.... 492 Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: During a novel study, students closely examine the different characters in the text by keeping journal entries, meeting for group discussions, and using graphic organizers. This extensive character examination is designed to help them to prepare a final project that involves creating an interview-style television show.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 493 Literature as a Catalyst for Social Action: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses picture books with prevalent social themes to engage students in the analysis and discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender discrimination. Using key historical events, these books provide a context for students to examine prejudices and stereotypes involved in creating barriers.... 494 A Bad Day for Sandy Dayton Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource is designed to help students understand forces and motion while reconstructing a rear-end auto accident that occurs outside their classroom building. They explore the relationship between speed and stopping distance; and reaction time and stopping distance.... Career Fields: Law & Public Safety, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 495 The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: One early reviewer declared that The Red Badge of Courage "impels the feeling that the actual truth about a battle has never been guessed before." Increase your students' understanding of Crane's influences and how the novel's style helped convey a new realism. In this lesson, students learn about the elements of Stephen Crane's style that contribute... 496 The "Secret Society" and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The high school social scene is rife with drama. Who's out?... 497 Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students prepare original news programs based on the events from a novel. After reading a novel, independently or as a class, students explore the literary elements of character, conflict, resolution, and setting.... Projects: Writing 6-12 498 Wonderful World of Weather Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This best practice instructional resource includes a series of lessons that allow elementary students to investigate weather phenomena both locally and in other places around the world. Students engage in both hands-on activities and real-time data investigations using information available on the Internet.... Projects: COR 499 Air Pollution: What's the Solution? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Air Pollution: What's the Solution? is an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online, real-time data to guide student discovery of the science behind causes and effects of ground level ozone. Through this project, students will focus on ground level ozone, discovering what ground level ozone is, what factors contribute to its formation, and the effects of breathing ozone on health.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: COR, Standards First 500 The Stowaway Adventure Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This multidisciplinary best practice lesson is designed to expose students to real world problem solving through unique uses of instructional technologies. In particular, students will use real time data from the Internet to track a real ship at sea, determine its destination and predict when it will arrive.... |