651 Understanding Distance, Speed, and Time Relationships Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: This two-lesson unit explores the meaning of constant rate of change with an interactive simulation of one or two runners racing along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the races, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship.... 652 Area Formulas: Finding the Area of Trapezoids Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students discover the area formula for trapezoids, as well as explore alternative methods for calculating the area of a trapezoid. An activity sheet, discussion questions, lesson extensions, suggestions for assessment, and prompts for teacher reflection are included.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 653 Area Formulas: Finding the Area of Parallelograms Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students will use their knowledge of the area of rectangles to discover the area formula for parallelograms. Activity sheets, discussion questions, lesson extensions, suggestions for assessment, and prompts for teacher reflection are included.... 654 Area Formulas: Finding the Area of Irregular Figures Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students will estimate the areas of highly irregular shapes and will use decomposition to calculate the areas of irregular polygons. A sheet of regular polygonal shapes is provided to cut out and cover the irregular shapes.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students determine the frequency of letters that occur in the names of all 50 states and represent these frequencies using a bar graph, stem-and-leaf plot, and box-and-whiskers plot. Downloadable activity sheets, discussion questions, lesson extensions, and suggestions for assessment are included.... Career Fields: Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: A game based on the Apache game of "Throwing Sticks" is the foundation for this lesson on probability. Younger students play the game and record results in a sticky note bar graph.... 657 Algebraic Transformations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students use rotations and reflections of a rectangle and other geometric shapes to study the algebraic properties of commutativity, associativity, identity, and inverse. NCTM labels this two-lesson unit for middle grades (6-8), but the ideas embodied in it (symmetry groups) are often studied in graduate level abstract algebra courses.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Standards First 658 Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless" Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson to build their understanding of key literary elements. Students examine the use of imagery, sound, and metaphor and discover how to listen for meter in songs and poems.... 659 Buttons, Buttons, Everywhere! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: Students use attributes such as size, shape, and color to describe, compare, and classify buttons. Related storybooks, guiding questions, lesson extensions, and suggestions for assessment are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 1 Professional Commentary: Students use models of coins to purchase one or two items from a classroom store. Students use words and numbers to identify and describe the value of the coins.... |