1 Searching with Certainty: Critically Evaluating Internet Search Methods and Sources Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on ways students can learn to evaluate Internet resources used for research papers. Using their own topics of research, students explore ways to determine credibility in sources of information.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 2 That's News to Me: Learning About and Creating a News Media Museum Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: This resource uses a feature article from the New York Times to launch a study of the Newseum and to create news media museums. Students compare and contrast the various sections and features of different newspapers and research the history of the news media in order to create their own newseums.... 3 Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students work with partners to create biographical projects about each other. Each pair of students reads background information about each other, plans and conducts interviews, and writes articles about each other.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 4 The Civil War Through a Child's Eye Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: The "Civil War through a Child's Eye" lesson focuses on the use of historical fiction and primary sources to expand students' perceptions of the Civil War era. Literature and photographic images reflect, communicate, and influence human perspectives of historical events.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 5 Deconstructing Web Pages Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides a web-based experience in which students evaluate the credibilty of online sources. Working in pairs, students apply a series of questions to determine the quality of sources of information they find online.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 6 Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: To complete this lesson, students are invited to attend a 19th Century party playing the role of a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To play this role, students must understand the values and customs Dickens' characters represented in Victorian society.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Health Science, Human Services, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 7 Jo Cool or Jo Fool Teacher's Guide: An Online Game about Savvy Surfing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This teacher's guide uses engaging activities to teach students about safe and savvy Internet surfing. A variety of scenarios, which represents specific issues and challenges that children face when they surf the World Wide Web, are used as springboards to promote critical thinking about online privacy, online marketing, responsible Internet use, and authenticating online resources and Internet safety.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 8 Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson sets the stage for high-interest reading with a purpose. As a class, students brainstorm a list of famous people and each student then selects an individual to research.... Career Fields: Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 9 Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson lesson is centered around the novel Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis. The lesson encourages students to use higher-level thinking skills, and asks them to examine different character perspectives.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 10 Video Production of a Newscast Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students research, write, and produce a 20 minute news broadcast. Working in small groups, students create and film a two minute segment of a school news show.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, Marketing Projects: Standards First |