771 Geographic Diffusion of Disease: The Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson students work in small groups to research the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in print and/or on the Internet. They then compile their findings on blank outline maps of the world, labeling them with dates of reported outbreaks, number of deaths, and possible means of contraction.... 772 Making the Grade: Health Indicators in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson focuses on how we can identify clues about the health of the environment and the ways in which connections can be made between human actions and environmental conditions. Students use online tools and resources to examine data concerning key indicators of the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the factors that affect them.... 773 Triangles and Quadrilaterals: Geometry Session 2 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This site contains several distinct lessons that focus on the defining characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals. Beginning with illustrations of various categories of triangles (acute, obtuse, right, scalene, isosceles, equilateral), students use an applet to explore what combinations of three side lengths can constitute a triangle.... 774 Changing Faces: A Study of Solar and Planetary Rotation Rates Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students work as NASA scientists to make repeated observations of our Sun and the planets to determine their rotation rates. First, students create a playground model of rotation and create representative diagrams.... 775 Designer Genes for a Designer World Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this series of promising practice guided inquiry activities, students explore how organisms adapt to their environments through changes in their genetic codes. Students are expected to:create make-believe creatures and environments that have specific characteristics. rate the success of each creature in a randomly assigned environment by examining which of the creature's characteristics help, hinder, or have no effect on the creature's success in each environment.... 776 Sun's Impact on Earth's Temperature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson middle school students view NASA images and movies of Venus, Earth, and Mars to deduce weather patterns and manipulate computer models to test competing hypotheses. Students analyze the weather and cloud patterns of Venus, Earth, and Mars, argue which planet has more chaotic weather patterns, collect temperature data using computer models from the Solar System Collaboratory, and evaluate different hypotheses about the dynamic weather patterns of Venus, Earth and Mars and select the one which seems most correct.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson gives students hands-on experience with organizing; identifying trends and understanding correlations, in reference to a grocery store. Students then relate the arrangement of items in their "mega mining mart" to the arrangement of elements in the periodic table.... 778 Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource explores how a cell uses information from the DNA to produce the proteins that help determine the traits of an organism; a process called protein synthesis. Students begin by learning what DNA is, what it looks like, and where it is located in the body.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lessons asks students to collect information about different biomes by watching videos and doing a Web activity. They share their information in a carousel brainstorm activity and locate the biomes on a world map.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to develop thinking skills. Three kinds of activities are suggested.... |