121 Nutrition 1: Food and the Digestive System Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson will focuses on the digestive system. Students identify the major organs of the digestive system and determine the function of each organ.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Students plan, build, and test a ramp that allows objects to roll far. It is recommended that students have experience with ramps before they attempt to build their own.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 123 lambda DNA Fingerprinting Simulation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lab activity is to demonstrate (through simulation) how DNA fingerprinting (or DNA profiling) might be used to solve a crime. In this activity, students perform restriction digests on DNA samples from four individuals, and then search for similarities between the individuals by running the restriction fragments on an electrophoresis gel.... Career Fields: Health Science, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First 124 Artifacts 1: What Can We Learn From Artifacts? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Using this resource, students determine what artifacts are, how they are discovered, and what information can be learned from them. Students may know very general things about people: what they need to live and that they live in families and communities.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an unit outline which uses the local watershed as a classroom. Through this unit students have the opportunity to explore basic ecological concepts, conduct scientific inquiries, understand the interdependence between science, technology, and mathematics in an urban community, develop competency in the use of technology equipment, and develop co-operative working relations.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Students gain an understanding that certain materials are attracted to magnets and some are not. Students may have already discovered that magnets can make an object move without touching it.... 127 Sky 3: Modeling Shadows Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students demonstrate understanding of shadows by creating a physical model of concepts learned. This lesson is part of a series in which students observe the daytime and nighttime sky regularly to identify sequences of changes and to look for patterns in these changes.... 128 Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson is designed to help students understand why the body needs food, and how it takes necessary nutrients as food passes through the digestive system. Students are asked to look critically at the advertising claims of foods they eat, recognizing those that ascribe unrealistic, emotional, or psychological benefits to foods, rather than nutritional benefits.... Career Fields: Health Science, Marketing Projects: Standards First 129 Sky 1: Objects in the Sky Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students investigate objects in the daytime and nighttime sky. Students then record their observations and make predictions about what objects will be in the sky on the next day.... 130 Putting It All Together Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students experience the design of different structures. This is a single lesson that is devised to enable students to create, design, and evaluate different structures.... |