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Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
Discipline: Mathematics
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12
ORC Record #8911

This lesson enhances student knowledge of how to use Geometer's Sketchpad™ to explore geometric concepts that take much longer to do using hand-held tools, specifically in this case, the points of concurrency in a triangle. The unit begins with a key-by-key introduction to Sketchpad, followed by the construction of line segments, triangles, circles, perpendicular bisectors of line segments, angle bisectors, altitudes of triangles, and medians of triangles....

Air Pollution: What's the Solution?

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
Discipline: Science
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12
ORC Record #3280

Air Pollution: What's the Solution? is an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online, real-time data to guide student discovery of the science behind causes and effects of ground level ozone. Through this project, students will focus on ground level ozone, discovering what ground level ozone is, what factors contribute to its formation, and the effects of breathing ozone on health....

Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
Discipline: English Language Arts
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2
ORC Record #6403

Learning to write nonfiction text is an important literacy skill for primary level students. This lesson guides students in writing descriptions about their 100th day bottles....