Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson begins with an introductory spatial visualization puzzle, and includes several activities where students identify, construct, and sketch cubes and other prisms and identify parallel and perpendicular lines and planes. They analyze nets, including those classified as pentominoes.... 372 Understanding Rational Numbers and Proportions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: Students use real-world models to develop an understanding of fractions, decimals, and proportions. The three activities in this lesson grow out of a fictitious trip to a bakery.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students model linear data collected in a variety of settings that range from car repair to sports to medicine. Students can work alone or in small groups to construct scatterplots, interpret data points and trends, and investigate the line of best fit.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on patterns that can be interpreted in more than one way. Students look at sequences and sets that have more than one defining characteristic (e.g., Ann, Brad, Carol, Darius) and describe the various rules that could determine the next element.... 375 Don't Be Too Flaky: Density of water, ice and snow experiment Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students determine the relative volumes of snow and the water that results from the melting of the snow sample. This promising practice lesson gives students a chance to practice measuring volume, making predictions, recording data, and determining the averages.... 376 Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Mini-lesson Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: For most students, speech and informal writing flow naturally. Yet students often struggle with formal or academic writing.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Health Science, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 377 Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson encourages students to explore the ways in which powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Paying attention to the details of King's speech as they read, students identify words to use in their own original poems.... 378 Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday links the survival of his people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories.... Projects: Writing 6-12 379 Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using Chapter Titles Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students name chapters in novels that they are reading, creating a cumulative list for the novel as they work through the text. Sample titles are discussed and debated before the class settles on a choice.... 380 Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus explains to Scout that "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (36). Using this quotation as a springboard, students explore writers' use of point of view and draft original stories from someone... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |