901 Order of Operations Bingo Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–6 Professional Commentary: Instead of calling numbers to play Bingo, you call (and write) numerical expressions to be evaluated for the numbers on the Bingo cards. The operations in this lesson are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the numbers are all single-digit whole numbers. An activity sheet, discussion questions, suggestions for assessment, lesson extensions, and prompts for teacher reflection are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students plan a road trip, starting in Cleveland, and visiting friends in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Boston. With the price of gas so high, they want to figure out the shortest travel route to save on expenses.... 903 Transformations and Frieze Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This two-lesson unit will build on students' fundamental knowlege of transformations as it introduces students to symmetry and rotation in figures and patterns. Students will learn to recognize reflection and rotational symmetry in 2-dimensional figures and frieze patterns, to classify symmetry found in decorative figures and frieze patterns, and to create cyclic and dihedral figures and frieze patterns using JavaSketchpad applets.... 904 What Should I Measure Next? How About Me! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: With this two-lesson, hands-on unit, young children can develop measuring and spatial reasoning skills. In the first lesson, students practice measurement by measuring themselves.... 905 The Feeding Frenzy : Seasonal Upwelling Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson teaches students about the biotic and abiotic factors that drive the process of upwelling. Students will deepen their understanding of the dynamics that create a seasonal abundance of marine life in coastal upwelling zones.... 906 I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students ask questions all the time. This lesson takes advantage of students' natural curiosity, encouraging them to pose questions along with what they think they already know about a scientific topic.... 907 Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson introduces students to a wide world of writing by inviting people into the classroom to talk about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives. Students then reflect on how these varying purposes and processes can apply to their own lives.... 908 Number Crunching! Number Munching! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students comprehend the order of operations and apply this understanding to simplify and evaluate expressions. They also learn to represent problems that involve variable quantities and use the calculator as a tool to solve problems.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: This unit consists of five lessons designed to help students understand fractions represented as a part of a region. The lessons use pattern blocks in concrete, pictorial, and virtual form to represent parts of a whole.... 910 Decision Tree: Making a Decision with Impact Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students decide whether to buy collision insurance on a used car by constructing a probability decision tree and calculating expected values of various events. Two detailed activity sheets lead students through the concepts and computations step by step.... |