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Interactive Geometry Dictionary: Areas in Geometry

Resource Type: Content Resource
Discipline: Mathematics
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6
ORC Record #2558

The applets at this site allow students to manipulate rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles to develop formulas for their areas and to see the relationships among them. (sw)...

Physics Central

Resource Type: Content Resource
Discipline: Science
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary
ORC Record #3788

The American Physical Society communicates the excitement and importance of physics through this website. Visit this site regularly to find out how physics is part of your world....

Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
Discipline: English Language Arts
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8
ORC Record #9176

In this lesson on characterization, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters with lists of strong adjectives. When the lists are posted in class, peers try to identify the characters....