Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the Fibonacci series. They identify the pattern among the Fibonacci numbers, look for applications of these numbers, and explore the ways that this pattern can be related to objects and shapes in both the natural and designed world.... 282 Nutrients by the Numbers: Using Math to Explore Nutrition Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–9 Professional Commentary: Students strengthen their percentage and fraction skills by comparing the nutritional values of similar food products. They individually calculate their own daily intake of various nutrients and compare their diets to recommended daily percentages.... Career Fields: Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 283 A Distant View: Exploring the Principles of Telescope Optics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students see real-life applications of rational functions and the Pythagorean Theorem, as they investigate the essential concepts of how lenses work to magnify vision, and then build simple telescopes to demonstrate their understanding. Discussion questions, suggestions for assessment, additional activities, interdisciplinary connections, and Internet extensions are included in the lesson plan.... Career Fields: Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First 284 The Games Robots Play: Developing Applications to Enable Robots to Play Tic-Tac-Toe Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Students learn how robots are programmed to play games. They then construct robot applications (basic computer codes) for playing tic-tac-toe using if-then logic sequences to reflect winning strategies.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Information Technology, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing Projects: Standards First 285 What's Up With The Weather? : Temperature Trends Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Global warming and changes in temperature trends in Boston over a ten year period are the focus of this lesson. Students use real data to develop graphs showing monthly average temperatures over a ten year period and then use an algorithm to calculate the moving averages.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Business & Administrative Services, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students explore the insulating properties of different fabrics under different conditions within the context of mountain climbing. This site has many features that will increase student interest.... 287 Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students conduct primary and secondary research to learn more about their cultural and ethnic heritage. These explorations serve as a personal link for students to the historical importance of immigration in United States history.... Projects: Writing 6-12 288 Probability with a Random Drawing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–5 Professional Commentary: Students repeatedly draw a block at random from a bag containing two red blocks, two blue blocks, and one yellow block, replacing the block and shaking the bag after each draw. Students keep track of results and after several trials, they conjecture how many blocks of each color are in the bag.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This activity is a technologically updated version of the classic challenge to replicate an irregular block structure without seeing it, only hearing a careful description of it. Using e-mail and other means of communication, the activity can become a whole-class rather than individual competition.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify different plants of the same variety according to the number of leaves, height of the plant, and length of the leaves. This lesson is designed to help students understand different ways in which numbers are assigned to objects (by counting or measuring), as well as... |