361 Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–6 Professional Commentary: In this culminating interdisciplinary unit, students apply their knowledge of experimentation and the scientific method, critical thinking, clear writing, and effective speaking. Students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 362 Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: Letter poems, where communicating a message is central, make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun for children. Letter poems are also a good medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry--line breaks.... 363 Literature as a Catalyst for Social Action: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses picture books with prevalent social themes to engage students in the analysis and discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender discrimination. Using key historical events, these books provide a context for students to examine prejudices and stereotypes involved in creating barriers.... 364 A Bad Day for Sandy Dayton Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource is designed to help students understand forces and motion while reconstructing a rear-end auto accident that occurs outside their classroom building. They explore the relationship between speed and stopping distance; and reaction time and stopping distance.... Career Fields: Law & Public Safety, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 365 The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: One early reviewer declared that The Red Badge of Courage "impels the feeling that the actual truth about a battle has never been guessed before." Increase your students' understanding of Crane's influences and how the novel's style helped convey a new realism. In this lesson, students learn about the elements of Stephen Crane's style that contribute... 366 The "Secret Society" and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The high school social scene is rife with drama. Who's out?... 367 The Stowaway Adventure Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This multidisciplinary best practice lesson is designed to expose students to real world problem solving through unique uses of instructional technologies. In particular, students will use real time data from the Internet to track a real ship at sea, determine its destination and predict when it will arrive.... 368 The Gulf Stream Voyage Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: The Gulf Stream Voyage is an online multidisciplinary project which utilizes both real time data and primary source materials to help guide students to discover the science and history of the Gulf Stream. Students investigate the driving forces behind this great ocean current, how it affects the Atlantic Ocean and some of mankind's experiences dealing with... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This series of activities explores the mathematical and environmental aspects of population growth. How fast is the population growing? Has it always grown at this rate? Are the populations of different countries growing differently? How can we predict the population in the future? How will a growing population impact the environment? Using archived census and demographic data as well as up-to-the-minute population estimates from the U.S.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: By engaging a real-world, hands-on activity, students can develop their understanding of time and distance. This lesson is introduced in the context of the time required for the Galileo spacecraft to travel before it's probe entered the atmosphere of Jupiter.... |