Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students are asked to distinguish between observations and inferences during a demonstration that illustrates the relationship between unbalanced forces as air pressure is used to pop an egg into a bottle. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource contains video segments for students on the kinetic theory of motion and contains a separate video for teachers that reinforces this topic. Student video segments are interactive and require students to watch the video, record their observations, make predictions and draw diagrams to demonstrate their understanding of the topic. After watching the video segments, students are asked to perform a lab to support or refute their predictions. (cb) Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students view a video that demonstrates that air exerts pressure and that pressure is affected by temperature. Throughout this lesson, students are asked to use scientific processes such as making hypotheses, analyzing scientific explanations, and drawing logical conclusions. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students watch a video that will challenge what they know about the temperature of boiling water as it relates to air pressure. This video will force students to grapple with the need to use processes of science to investigate and answer difficult questions, as well as make connections between pressure, temperature, and volume. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource consists of three components that focus on cloud formation and weather, while also incorporating the scientific processes. The first component requires students to observe a video that deals with air pressure and cloud formation, while also asking them to record their observation, explanations, and revisions in a laboratory journal. The second component reinforces cloud formation by requiring students to complete a lab entitled Cloud in a Bottle. Lastly, the third component is a web-based activity that deals with reporting and predicting the weather based on pertinent weather data. (cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students view a demonstration of Newton's First Law of Motion focusing on unbalanced forces and Inertia. Students are asked to use scientific process skills such as making hypotheses and predictions throughout the demonstration. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This is an excellent resource that helps students appreciate the physics of forces. Throughout the demonstration students are asked to use scientific processes such as making observations, inferences, hypotheses and predictions. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource students discover how heat is transferred by conduction through matter by watching interactive video segments. This is an excellent resource, but it is important to note that convection and radiation are not covered and should be addressed prior to showing these video segments. Along with the student video segments, a teacher video is also included to provide additional reinforcement around the topic of conduction. (cb) Projects: COR 939 Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson engages students through their participation in online literature circles as they read young adult novels. A suggested list of novels is supplied.... 940 Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students participate in a review of Lord of the Flies by choosing scenes from the novel when the use of today's high-tech methods of contact could have been successful. An interactive tool is featured at the website to help them create a graphic map of these events. Students then develop a summary of the book... |