311 Analyzing Photographs: From Theory to Practice Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are guided to respond to several works of art and photography through a series of visual analysis activities where they use their descriptive, reflective, and formal analytic abilities. Next, the students, themselves, act as photographers by documenting daily life in their own communities.... 312 Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students become familiar with the pattern book format using I Went Walking by Sue Williams. Next, they collaborate to create their own digital pattern book.... 313 Dividing a Town Into Pizza Delivery Regions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: You are the owner of five pizzerias in the town of Squaresville. To ensure minimal delivery times, you devise a system in which customers call a central phone number and get transferred to the pizzeria that is closest to them.... 314 Exploring the Evidence for Plate Tectonics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an inquiry-based exploration for each of the three lines of evidence for plate tectonics: fossil distribution, locations, depths, and types of earthquakes, and locations and types of volcanoes. These activities are presented in a way as to emphasize the process of science – how evidence is gathered and hypotheses are tested. Taken as a whole, the activities demonstrate the inter-relatedness of Earth’s processes and the lines of evidence, thus reinforcing the overarching concept: the Earth is a system. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This best practice resource will give students an understanding of some of the basic elements, forces and processes involved in weather: temperature, pressure, density, convection, differential heating, and condensation, and how these elements combine to create the dynamics of wind and clouds. In the culminating activity, students will research an extreme weather event, its occurrence in a particular area, and a specific incidence of it. Taken as a whole, the lessons within this unit demonstrate the inter-relatedness of earth’s processes thus reinforcing the overarching concept of Earth as a system. (author/cb) 316 Global Ups & Downs: Changing Sea Level Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This resource focuses on the concept that changes in sea level have occurred in the past, are occurring now, and will continue to occur. The unit consists of six lessons that provide an inquiry-based exploration of the lines of evidence for periodic melting of ice and resulting sea level rise: glacial evidence, geologic evidence, fossil evidence, and isotopic evidence. Students learn about the worldwide effects of sea level changes in the past and then use a study on topography and sea level to demonstrate their understanding of impact of sea level change on flora, fauna, and human society.It is important to note that some of the lessons in this unit require a computer with Internet access, as well as QuickTime. (author/cb) 317 Living in Earthquake Country Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This best practice unit investigates how and why earthquakes cause damage by exploring a number of different things including: seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This unit focuses on mountain building as a tool for teaching mountain formation, erosion, rocks, minerals, the rock cycle, faulting, folding and deformation of the crust, as well as plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes. It reinforces the concept that mountains have a history and that it is possible to use clues from the shape, composition, and location of the mountains to discern that history. (author/cb) 319 Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use an online database to access an appropriate article of literary criticism connected to a work of literature they have already read as a class assignment. Although links to various sites are supplied, students may need help in selecting their articles. Students do a close reading to prepare the article for presentation by highlighting key elements of its structure... 320 What’s The Difference? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This best practice resource provides demonstrations on differences in air pressure and the movement of air. This lesson also helps students make connections between the weather associated with high and low air pressure. Students then participate in an inquiry-based activity and apply learned content knowledge by predicting the weather using a map depicting high and low pressure. (author/cb) |