Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson asks students to investigate how animals get food during the winter months. Students read fiction and nonfiction books and access the Internet to gain information about how animals survive during the winter.... Projects: COR 362 Investigating Shapes: Triangles Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this five-lesson unit, students identify characteristics of triangles, manipulate real and electronic geoboards to construct triangles, and describe the triangles' relative locations. In addition, through music and observation, students identify triangles in their environment.... 363 Note Writing in the Primary Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Focusing on the integration of authentic writing opportunities into daily instruction, this lesson encourages teachers to promote and model the use of informal writing to inspire students to write short notes to themselves, friends, teachers, and family members. Students write short notes, to remind, plan, request or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this best practice lesson is to make models of insects and to use the Internet for insect exploration. Along with this lesson, students should have many opportunities to directly observe actual insects.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students study the motion of objects and then create a structure that can be used to move an object from one place to another. As part of this lesson, students explore and manipulate the motion of objects and the forces required to control that motion (pushing, pulling, throwing, dropping, rolling,... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–3 Professional Commentary: Throughout this lesson students make detailed observations of rocks. Through their observations, students will begin to develop an understanding that there are many types of rocks with a multitude of different attributes.... Projects: COR 367 What Parts Are There to a Plant? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: The objective of this best practice lesson is to encourage students to observe and document similarities and differences between parts of plants. The lesson begins with a plant scavenger hunt where students find and match similar plant parts (roots, stems, etc.).... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: In this unit of 6 lessons, students make groups of zero through five objects and connect number words to the groups. They use numerals to record the size of a group.... 369 Going Places-3: Learning to Measure with Ladybug Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on the transition from measuring with multiple copies of a nonstandard unit (a ladybug) to repetition of a single copy of the unit to find lengths of several objects. A template for the ladybug, activity sheets, discussion questions, options for assessment, and questions for teacher reflection are included.... 370 Going Places-5: Handy Map Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson helps young students get the idea of what a map is by having them trace their left and right hands and label their thumbs, pinkies, ring fingers, etc. They discuss the differences between their hands and describe relative positions of fingers.... |