Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 12 Professional Commentary: This resource is a novel study of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to analyze, interpret, and respond to language, meaning, and ideas in the novel.... Career Fields: Health Science, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First 82 Et Tu Brutè: Performing Julius Caesar Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–11 Professional Commentary: This resource is a study of the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar. The instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to analyze, interpret, and respond to language, meaning, and ideas in the play.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Marketing Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This resource has four main content sections: Leonardo's futuristic inventions introduces the elements of machines, lets students explore how these elements can work together to perform new functions, and gives students a chance to analyze Leonardo's inventions and design their own; Leonardo's way of looking at the world explores Renaissance techniques for representing the 3D world on 2D surfaces; a brief biography of Leonardo da Vinci with images; and Leonardo's curious habit of writing in reverse. This web site has four pages with interesting interactive elements, lesson plans for hands-on classroom activities to extend learning, and opportunities for students to communicate their ideas electronically.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Information Technology Projects: COR, Standards First 84 It's a Perfect Fit - Part 1 - Getting Into Shapes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Using square tiles, students are first challenged to duplicate rectangles of various dimensions. Students then identify and describe two-dimensional shapes in the classroom.... 85 Money Counts: Number Sense/Computation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Through a collection of hands-on activities, students gain experience in counting, exchanging, and comparing money. Students begin the lesson by finding all of the possible combinations of coins that can be used to equal a specified amount of money.... 86 Sand Babies: Measurement Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides students with many motivating opportunities to explore and investigate measurement using standard and non-standard units. They follow a careful procedure to round their birth weight to the nearest pound and then construct a bar graph composed of sticky notes to display the birth weights of the entire class.... 87 Build an animal: Lessonplanspage.com Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Through the use of this resource, students design and build an animal that would be well suited for a given habitat. This site focuses on a variety of concepts, including biological evolution, interdependence of organisms and behavior of organisms.... 88 Fooling With Words: Teaching Tools for Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: Fooling With Words is an informative web site with a focus on contemporary American poets. Many of these poets are frequently published in high school anthologies.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 89 Fantasy Baseball - Part II Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Student pairs act as co-managers of a baseball team. Each pair receives a pack of baseball cards.... 90 Numerical and Categorical Data: Numerical Data Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students find the median of a data set. Students are asked to find the typical height of students in the class.... |