Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson examines the causes of air pollution and its effects on living organisms, and then helps students use this knowledge to evaluate presidential candidate ideas for how best to manage air quality. The presidential candidate section of this lesson needs to be updated with the current presidential candidates. And since this lesson analyzes issues surrounding the presidential candidates, it is recommended that this lesson be taught in coordination with the social studies department. As a side note, this lesson can also be used to teach experimental design, however, this lesson requires a significant time committment to succesfully complete it. (author/cb) 1122 Tell It Like It Isn't: Exploring Creative Ways to Revise Well-Known Stories Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students consider favorite stories and the common elements that make them interesting and entertaining. Next, students read and discuss an article in The New York Times about two performances and one historic tour based on creative retellings of well known stories. Following brainstorming, students select a story and envision how it could be retold in an innovative way using one of the modes described in the article. After devloping written pieces either individually, in pairs, or in small groups, students meet with peer editors to share and refine their ideas.... 1123 Dig Those Descriptions: Creating Descriptive Tags to Accompany an Ancient Egypt Museum Exhibit Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–9 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and discuss a New York Times article about the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" museum exhibit. A link is provided to the exhibition's website which features images of some of the artifacts.... 1124 Capturing the Moment: Creating a Photograph Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Designated as a best practice, in this lesson, students are first asked to discover the characteristics of photojournalism by responding to examples displayed in class. Following this introduction, they read and discuss a New York Times article about a provocative photograph of Emmett Till that has had continuing influence.... 1125 Media Literacy: Designing Your Own Internet Book Club Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and discuss a New York Times article about television and online book clubs inspired by Oprah, the Today Show, and Good Morning America. Next, they evaluate the effectiveness of these Internet book clubs and present their findings to the class.... 1126 Heroes of Harlem: Learning About the Harlem Renaissance Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn about the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. A New York Times article describing a Central Park salute to Zora Neale Hurston is used as a springboard.... 1127 Guild v. Google: Presenting a Mock Trial in a Case of Online Copyright Infringement Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students first share opinions about what constitutes fair use of copyrighted materials including music, books, and images. After reading and discussing an article from the New York Times about writers suing Google for copyright infringement, they research key issues in the class action suit in preparation for a mock trial. Students will research copyright law as part of... 1128 Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Beyond Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In the essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan explains that she “began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with.” How these “different Englishes” or even a language other than English contribute to identity is a crucial issue for adolescents. The ways that the individual negotiates those “different Englishes” within a so-called standard dialect... 1129 Writing Persuasive Letters Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Through a classroom "argument" activity and letter writing models, students are introduced to the concepts of lobbying for something that's important to them or they want and making persuasive statements. In this unit, students become aware of the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive letter writing activities.... 1130 The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–3 Professional Commentary: This lesson is designed to help students understand how, in the English alphabet, each vowel may represent a different set of sounds when used in different spelling patterns. Based on the six-step spelling framework, developed by Jerry Zutell, this lesson may be used as a supplement to the classroom spelling program or as the basis for... |