271 Community of Interests: Evaluating Various Aspects of Community Through Local and National News Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn about the different sections of a newspaper and how each relates to different aspect of a community. Working in small groups, students examine the difference between local and national newspaper coverage through visual and written evaluations.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services Projects: Standards First 272 Prize-Winning Profiles: Reading and Writing Profiles of Noteworthy People in the News Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read an article in which a famous person is profiled. After analyzing the techniques used by the author, students research and write a profile of a well-known person.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 273 Generation TeXt: Exploring the Differences Between Conversational and Formal Writing Styles Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson prompts students to consider the appropriateness of different writing styles based on purpose and audience. Students begin by discussing the influence text messaging has had on academic writing.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 274 Radio Free School: Writing News for Radio Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore several radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. After reading an article about news radio programming in Afghanistan, students plan and present a radio news show.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 275 Pesticides and Eggshell Thinning Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This activity is a wonderful way to introduce toxic substances like pesticides and their effects on biological systems. The activity represents a true lab investigation that can be related easily to eggshell thinning in birds.... 276 Understanding Ratios of Areas of Inscribed Figures Using Interactive Diagrams Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This NCTM E-Example features four student tasks along with teacher support material about using interactive figures with students to explore the connections between algebra and geometry. This site features an applet that students can use to explore an interesting quantitative relationship between the area of a polygon and the area of an inscribed figure formed by... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 277 Exploring Linear Functions: Representational Relationships Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This site presents a series of explorations using linked graphical and symbolic representations of linear functions. Students investigate the effect that changing the slope (m) has on the graph of a line.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First 278 Understanding Factoring through Geometry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–5 Professional Commentary: Using square unit tiles, students work with a partner to construct all rectangles whose area is equal to a given number. After several examples, students see that prime numbers are associated with exactly two rectangles, whereas composite numbers are associated with more than two rectangles.... 279 Introduction to Fractions for Primary Students Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This 4-lesson unit introduces young children to fractions. Students learn to recognize equal parts of a whole and divide a whole into equal parts.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students use red beans, black beans, and lima beans to find solutions to word problems that can be modeled with simple equations and inequalities. There are multiple solutions to the problems involving inequalities.... |