Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Students engage in a hands-on activity that demonstrates the effects that pressure and friction exert on water flow. From this experience, students deduce some general principles that they then apply to a real problem: What size water pump do firefighters need to extinguish a blaze under certain specified conditions?... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First 232 Fit By Design or Design To Fit Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: Students use a carpenter's square and protractor to measure the sides and angles of several right triangles. To confirm their measurements, they then compute the size of selected sides and angles using (a) the Pythagorean Theorem and (b) trigonometric ratios.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: Standards First 233 Letters From the Frontier: Reading and Writing Primary Documents Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–9 Professional Commentary: Using a collection of historical letters, students demonstrate skills in reading and interpreting primary documents, within their original cultural context, through class discussion and written composition. Students examine the ways in which language, syntax, and the author's viewpoints impact the objectivity of historical documents.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: A Midwife's Tale is an innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. The variety of resources used to tell the story of Martha Ballard adds to the richness of this resource.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Health Science, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 235 Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson combines the teaching of formal terms used to describe sonnets with appreciating the sounds of poetry. Focusing on the sounds of poetry, this resource provides a series of sound exercises to illustrate the underlying form or structure in poetic language.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students use literature and art to investigate the idea of "monsters." They begin by defining the idea of monster and reading and comparing two works, Beowulf and Grendel by John Gardner. As a final project, students create an artistic representation of their interpretation of a monster and write a story detailing its... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 237 Oliver Twist in the Classroom: Teacher's Guide Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an online teacher's guide for use with Oliver Twist and the film adaptation, of the same name, created by Masterpiece Theater. The teacher's guide for Oliver Twist presents an integrated study that uses visual media to extend students' understanding of the novel.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Discover the true Mark Twain through his writing and the collection of artifacts found at this web site. Five classroom activities teach students the importance of observation in writing, how historical issues and events impact an author's writing, and how humor and satire influence storytelling.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Marketing Projects: Standards First 239 Is the Internet a Web of Deceit?: Evaluating the Credibility of Information on the Internet Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Using the Internet for research requires students to be critical thinkers and consumers. This lesson provides guided opportunities for evaluating various elements of a web site to determine its credibility.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson explores the meaning of a personal narrative "'Magic' Pablo," written by a Peace Corps volunteer about his experiences in rural Guatemala. "'Magic' Pablo" is a true story about imagination, determination, and cross-cultural friendship.... |