Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Using inductive reasoning, students devise procedures for using a protractor to measure the number of degrees in an angle. Students make estimates of the measurement of various angles created with angle wheels.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 72 Playing Around with Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–7 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a lesson plan for using poetry to discuss the author's purpose and main idea. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to read and discuss a wide selection of poetry and to write original pieces.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This resource is a lesson for teaching public speaking. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to work in small groups to write effective introductions, organize their speeches, and request feedback from peers.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–7 Professional Commentary: This resource uses multimedia tools to encourage creative writing. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to create a narrative, using effective layout and presentation, in the format of a picture book.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 9 Professional Commentary: This thematic unit explores war and conflict by examining stories, poems, songs, and films around this theme. Developed as part of a project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, this instructional unit allows students to analyze a variety of texts and to create original pieces of writing.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Government & Public Administration, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First 76 Survival of the Fittest Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–8 Professional Commentary: This resource is a literature-based instructional unit centered around survival novels. Maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, this unit presents opportunities for students to read novels and stories that share a survival theme, conduct research, and share a presentation of their findings.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 77 Logging Up Reading Mileage Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This resource offers ideas for implementing an independent reading program in middle school classrooms. This lesson, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, also includes several ideas for integrating written responses.... 78 Poems, Poems, Everywhere Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–9 Professional Commentary: This resource uses poetry as a stimulus for the writing process. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, encourages students to read and write a variety of poetry.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services, Transportation Systems Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 79 The All-Purpose Multimedia Poetry Beast Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This resource is an instructional unit in which students record poetry readings to express and demonstrate their understanding of the poet's purpose. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunties for students to publish and share a portfolio of their poetic writings.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: COR, Writing 6-12, Standards First 80 It Comes as a Great Surprise: Speechmaking Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource, designated a promising practice, is an instructional unit in which students create and deliver a formal speech. This instructional unit, developed as part of a project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to research examples relevant to their topic and use a range of speaking skills during... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |