1211 Dividing a Town Into Pizza Delivery Regions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: You are the owner of five pizzerias in the town of Squaresville. To ensure minimal delivery times, you devise a system in which customers call a central phone number and get transferred to the pizzeria that is closest to them.... 1212 Do I Have to Mow the Whole Thing? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson offers several practical examples of inverse variation. Students collect data and generate graphs before finding specific equations for inverse variation relationships.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this one-period lesson, students analyze data from a given scenario involving three teams engaged in an egg launch contest. In the scenario, each team presents their data in a different format, in a table, in a graph and as an equation.... 1214 Order of Operations Bingo Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–6 Professional Commentary: Instead of calling numbers to play Bingo, you call (and write) numerical expressions to be evaluated for the numbers on the Bingo cards. The operations in this lesson are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the numbers are all single-digit whole numbers. An activity sheet, discussion questions, suggestions for assessment, lesson extensions, and prompts for teacher reflection are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students plan a road trip, starting in Cleveland, and visiting friends in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Boston. With the price of gas so high, they want to figure out the shortest travel route to save on expenses.... 1216 Transformations and Frieze Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This two-lesson unit will build on students' fundamental knowlege of transformations as it introduces students to symmetry and rotation in figures and patterns. Students will learn to recognize reflection and rotational symmetry in 2-dimensional figures and frieze patterns, to classify symmetry found in decorative figures and frieze patterns, and to create cyclic and dihedral figures and frieze patterns using JavaSketchpad applets.... 1217 What Should I Measure Next? How About Me! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: With this two-lesson, hands-on unit, young children can develop measuring and spatial reasoning skills. In the first lesson, students practice measurement by measuring themselves.... 1218 Exploring the Evidence for Plate Tectonics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This resource provides an inquiry-based exploration for each of the three lines of evidence for plate tectonics: fossil distribution, locations, depths, and types of earthquakes, and locations and types of volcanoes. These activities are presented in a way as to emphasize the process of science – how evidence is gathered and hypotheses are tested. Taken as a whole, the activities demonstrate the inter-relatedness of Earth’s processes and the lines of evidence, thus reinforcing the overarching concept: the Earth is a system. (author/cb) 1219 Essentials of Weather Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This best practice resource will give students an understanding of some of the basic elements, forces and processes involved in weather: temperature, pressure, density, convection, differential heating, and condensation, and how these elements combine to create the dynamics of wind and clouds. In the culminating activity, students will research an extreme weather event, its occurrence in a particular area, and a specific incidence of it. Taken as a whole, the lessons within this unit demonstrate the inter-relatedness of earth’s processes thus reinforcing the overarching concept of Earth as a system. (author/cb) 1220 The Feeding Frenzy : Seasonal Upwelling Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson teaches students about the biotic and abiotic factors that drive the process of upwelling. Students will deepen their understanding of the dynamics that create a seasonal abundance of marine life in coastal upwelling zones.... |