11 Witness for the Prosecution: Creating an Online Newspaper Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This integrated language arts unit, created by a high school English teacher, includes many opportunities for reading fiction and nonfiction texts, conducting research using the internet, and producing an online newspaper. Centered around Witness For the Prosecution by Agatha Christie, this unit uses literary response and research as the context in which students produce a... Career Fields: Information Technology Projects: COR, Writing 6-12, Standards First 12 Building Boxes: Polynomials and Rational Functions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore relationships between x-intercepts, factors, and roots of polynomial functions using the graphing calculator. Students also investigate rational functions, identifying the roots and the asymptotes as well as holes (discontinuities) in the graphs.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students solve two linear programming problems. The first one, Researching Research Papers, involves three variables; the second, The Busing Problem, involves four variables.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 14 Meadows or Malls?: Using Matrices to Solve Systems Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students use matrices and technology to solve the Meadows or Malls problem, a linear programming problem with six variables. Students who have not done linear programming problems before are advised to begin with The Busing Problem before attempting Meadows or Malls.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First 15 Rhinos and M&M's: Exponential Models Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In activities that use paper folding and M&M's, students collect data, create scatterplots, and determine algebraic models that represent their functions. Students begin by collecting data within their groups.... Projects: COR 16 Examining African-American Culture Through the Use of Children's Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This resource, maintained by the Yale New Haven Teacher's Institute, is a literature based unit centered around the theme of friendship. Using a variety of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction, and many collections of poems, this unit uses literature to examine African American culture.... 17 Alphabits: Computation and Estimation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students list questions of a mathematical nature that could be asked about the contents of a box of Alphabits cereal. They decide to investigate the percent of each letter of the alphabet found in a box of Alphabits.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students are presented with the problem of constructing a parachute that will have a maximum hang time. Working in pairs, students construct their own parachutes using the available materials.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First 19 Getting to Know You: Mealworms: Mental Health Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students become "caretakers" of mealworms for a period of several days. During this time they observe the mealworms, record their observations through drawings, and become more comfortable with handling the insects.... 20 Think Safe! Be Safe! Grasshoppers: Self-Protection Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: This resource helps students develop inquiry skills as they predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves. The lessons are designed for use in kindergarten and can be modified for use with older students.... |