1221 Global Ups & Downs: Changing Sea Level Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This resource focuses on the concept that changes in sea level have occurred in the past, are occurring now, and will continue to occur. The unit consists of six lessons that provide an inquiry-based exploration of the lines of evidence for periodic melting of ice and resulting sea level rise: glacial evidence, geologic evidence, fossil evidence, and isotopic evidence. Students learn about the worldwide effects of sea level changes in the past and then use a study on topography and sea level to demonstrate their understanding of impact of sea level change on flora, fauna, and human society.It is important to note that some of the lessons in this unit require a computer with Internet access, as well as QuickTime. (author/cb) 1222 Living in Earthquake Country Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This best practice unit investigates how and why earthquakes cause damage by exploring a number of different things including: seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This unit focuses on mountain building as a tool for teaching mountain formation, erosion, rocks, minerals, the rock cycle, faulting, folding and deformation of the crust, as well as plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes. It reinforces the concept that mountains have a history and that it is possible to use clues from the shape, composition, and location of the mountains to discern that history. (author/cb) 1224 Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use an online database to access an appropriate article of literary criticism connected to a work of literature they have already read as a class assignment. Although links to various sites are supplied, students may need help in selecting their articles. Students do a close reading to prepare the article for presentation by highlighting key elements of its structure... 1225 I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students ask questions all the time. This lesson takes advantage of students' natural curiosity, encouraging them to pose questions along with what they think they already know about a scientific topic.... 1226 Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson introduces students to a wide world of writing by inviting people into the classroom to talk about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives. Students then reflect on how these varying purposes and processes can apply to their own lives.... 1227 Number Crunching! Number Munching! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students comprehend the order of operations and apply this understanding to simplify and evaluate expressions. They also learn to represent problems that involve variable quantities and use the calculator as a tool to solve problems.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: This unit consists of five lessons designed to help students understand fractions represented as a part of a region. The lessons use pattern blocks in concrete, pictorial, and virtual form to represent parts of a whole.... 1229 Decision Tree: Making a Decision with Impact Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students decide whether to buy collision insurance on a used car by constructing a probability decision tree and calculating expected values of various events. Two detailed activity sheets lead students through the concepts and computations step by step.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This module is intended for students in an Advanced Placement Statistics course or any high school course that addresses inferential statistics. Students explore the concepts of direct marketing, a marketing database, and a sales promotion.... |