11 Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a detailed lesson focused on using eyewitness accounts, representing a range of different perspectives, to write reliable accounts of historical events. Students begin by examining alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 12 Newsworthy Intentions: Exploring the Risky and Edifying Dimensions of Satire Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the legal distinction between satire and libel. Students begin by discussing their ideas about humor, then work in small groups to research a libel case.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 13 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 14 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 15 Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson helps students to understand the ways in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. Students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 16 Sell Phones: Exploring the Future of Cellphone Markets Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read about changes in the cellular phone market and then work in small groups to prepare and present a comprehensive marketing plan to the board of a fictitious cellphone company. Each group, acting as a marketing team, competes against the others.... Career Fields: Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 17 To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students gain a sense of the living history that surrounds the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Through studying primary source materials from American Memory and other online resources, students grasp how historical events and human forces have influenced literary texts.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 18 Local Retreats: Exploring Potential Tourist Attractions in Your Community Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students consider how some of their favorite local places might be interesting spots for visitors to their community to see. Students begin the lesson by reading an article from the New York Times about unlikely tourist attractions in the boroughs of New York.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Government & Public Administration, Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 19 It Comes as a Great Surprise: Speechmaking Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource, designated a promising practice, is an instructional unit in which students create and deliver a formal speech. This instructional unit, developed as part of a project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to research examples relevant to their topic and use a range of speaking skills during... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 20 The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts: Ethnographic Field Studies in Fiction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This instructional unit uses The Grapes of Wrath and digital images from the American Memory collections to explore cultural and literary themes. Students use the American Memory collections to conduct research and gather artifacts.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |