571 Language Arts: Shakespeare's Sonnets Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: One of the difficulties teachers face when they teach Shakespeare is language accessibility. Twenty-first century students often have difficulty understanding the words, and so they miss the meaning of his plays and sonnets.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training Projects: Standards First 572 Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson alerts students to the fallacies that surround them every day. The fallacies used in advertising are often overlooked without the tools needed to examine them critically.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Standards First 573 Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In these sessions, students explore picture books to identify the characteristics of four types of conflict: character vs. character, character vs.... 574 Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using the literary tools of plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism. In part one, students use a plot handout to identify the elements of plot and theme for The Cat in the Hat.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 575 Light 1: Making Light of Science Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson introduces students to the electromagnetic spectrum (focusing on visible light) and the wave nature of light. Students will be introduced to the idea that all light travels as waves, and that wavelength defines the various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.... 576 Earth, Moon, and Mars Balloons Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Making a scale model of the solar system is not a novel idea, but this site restricts its consideration to the Earth, Moon, and Mars and explains in more detail than most. Using balloons for the planetary bodies makes the actual construction simple.... 577 Literature Circles: Getting Started Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson outlines an interesting way to conduct literature groups and keep students engaged in reading. Literature Circles are introduced, and students are guided through each of the four jobs in the Literature Circles: Discussion Director, Literary Luminary, Vocabulary Enricher, and Checker.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students investigate soils and observe how water moves through soil, how soil properties affect flow rate and water holding capacity. Students time the flow of water through different soils and measure the amount of water held in these soils.... 579 Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: Working in small groups, students create board games that review elements from a novel read by members of he group. An innovation on a common classroom activity, this lesson establishes criteria for students to follow in developing their game.... 580 Integrating Language Arts Using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine key reading skills with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues.... |