Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5, 9–10 Professional Commentary: Fiddle Physics asks basic questions about sound produced with a violin. What is the relation between bow, string, violin body, and vibrating air? How does a violin make noise -- or music? The Why Files WebPages contains several embedded links to other sources of information about the physics of violin sounds.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–8 Professional Commentary: This content resource explores lightning. The information provided here answers questions such as: how does lightning occur, what are some different types of lightning, what is the best way to avoid lightning, and how does lightning look from space.... 83 Life Cycles: The Monarch Butterfly Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Life cycles is the theme of this edition of the Dragonfly Web Pages, which focuses on the monarch butterfly. This resource contains information on the metamorphosis of the monarch.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: In these high-tech times, it's easy to forget how important simple tools are to human beings, to our pre-human ancestors, and to our primate "cousins." Learn about how Jane Goodall and Wolfgang Kohler observed chimpanzees making tools. See how archaeologists figured out how our ancient ancestors made tools by making Stone Age tools themselves.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: Standards First 85 Module Makers: Building Online Research Modules Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This online research module creator guides teachers through the process of building an online research project that will engage and challenge students. These modules can be designed to integrate research and presentation strategies with challenging content from state academic content standards.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–11 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an algebraic analysis of key features of the federal income tax system, such as interpreting the difference between actual and marginal tax rates using graphical representations. These activities would be most meaningful to adult students revisiting algebra.... Career Fields: Finance Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: In this activity students measure the sides and diagonals of squares, using the ruler supplied on screen. Students can do this activity as soon as they can measure length and understand division, usually about grade 4.... 88 Plot Plans and Silhouettes Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–11 Professional Commentary: This activity is all about visualizing 3-dimensional objects from 2-dimensional representations. Students are asked to figure out the structure of a building based on its silhouettes as seen from the front and side.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–11 Professional Commentary: This applet helps students visualize the shapes of shadows cast by a cube with a light coming from different angles. The activity is limited but shows how a cube could cast a hexagonal shadow.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First 90 Trigonometry for Solving Problems Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: These activities can enhance students' appreciation for trigonometry as a tool in problem solving. Students should be familiar with trigonometric functions and their values for special angles.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Information Technology Projects: Standards First |