1 Literacy Strategies: Concept Mapping Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: This resource, developed by an instructional design team at Southeastern Louisiana University as part of a large content area reading project, provides directions for using concept mapping with expository texts. Concept mapping allows teachers and students to visually organize key concepts and main ideas after reading.... 2 Literacy Strategy: Cubing Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Developed by an instructional design team at Southeastern Louisiana University, this resource provides directions for cubing. Designed by Gail E.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–12 Professional Commentary: On the surface, this activity is a simple game that gives students practice with coordinates, but it is also an introduction to taxicab geometry, a gateway to non-Euclidean geometry. If that sounds formidable, fear not.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 4 Literacy Strategies: KWL Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: This resource, developed by an instructional design team at Southeastern Louisana University as part of a large content area reading project, provides directions for using KWL to help students construct meaning. The KWL strategy helps students make sense of new information by connecting it to what they already know.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–10, Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This excellent resource on Trilobites, the most diverse group of extinct animals preserved in the fossil record, was selected as a content resource because it provides extensive background information, including information on ecology, body parts, feeding habits, and classification. The Trilobite is Ohio's state fossil (see more here).... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes. Although a common meteorological phenomenon, snow crystal growth is a fascinating and poorly understood process, in which remarkably complex and beautifully symmetric structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: The PALEOMAP Project illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1,100 million years. This resource includes paleogeographic maps showing the ancient mountain ranges and shorelines, active plate boundaries, and the extent of paleoclimatic belts.... 8 Literacy Strategies: Knowledge Rating Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Knowledge Rating is a pre-, during, and post- reading activity in which students analyze vocabulary words from the text before reading. Developed by an instructional design team at Southeastern Louisiana University as part of a content area reading project, this strategy can be used in a variety of contexts.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 9 Astronomy Picture of the Day Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.... 10 Pattern Block Fractions Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: This website includes four different pattern block activities that focus on identifying fractional values in the context of arbitrarily defined unit wholes. Research shows that the concept of unit whole is a difficult one for students, particularly when the unit whole is itself divided into pieces, as for example, when a set of discrete objects is taken as the unit whole.... |