Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource contains video segments for students on the kinetic theory of motion and contains a separate video for teachers that reinforces this topic. Student video segments are interactive and require students to watch the video, record their observations, make predictions and draw diagrams to demonstrate their understanding of the topic. After watching the video segments, students are asked to perform a lab to support or refute their predictions. (cb) Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students view a video that demonstrates that air exerts pressure and that pressure is affected by temperature. Throughout this lesson, students are asked to use scientific processes such as making hypotheses, analyzing scientific explanations, and drawing logical conclusions. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students watch a video that will challenge what they know about the temperature of boiling water as it relates to air pressure. This video will force students to grapple with the need to use processes of science to investigate and answer difficult questions, as well as make connections between pressure, temperature, and volume. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource consists of three components that focus on cloud formation and weather, while also incorporating the scientific processes. The first component requires students to observe a video that deals with air pressure and cloud formation, while also asking them to record their observation, explanations, and revisions in a laboratory journal. The second component reinforces cloud formation by requiring students to complete a lab entitled Cloud in a Bottle. Lastly, the third component is a web-based activity that deals with reporting and predicting the weather based on pertinent weather data. (cb) 1255 What’s The Difference? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This best practice resource provides demonstrations on differences in air pressure and the movement of air. This lesson also helps students make connections between the weather associated with high and low air pressure. Students then participate in an inquiry-based activity and apply learned content knowledge by predicting the weather using a map depicting high and low pressure. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students view a demonstration of Newton's First Law of Motion focusing on unbalanced forces and Inertia. Students are asked to use scientific process skills such as making hypotheses and predictions throughout the demonstration. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This is an excellent resource that helps students appreciate the physics of forces. Throughout the demonstration students are asked to use scientific processes such as making observations, inferences, hypotheses and predictions. (author/cb) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource students discover how heat is transferred by conduction through matter by watching interactive video segments. This is an excellent resource, but it is important to note that convection and radiation are not covered and should be addressed prior to showing these video segments. Along with the student video segments, a teacher video is also included to provide additional reinforcement around the topic of conduction. (cb) Projects: COR 1259 Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Characterization and Style Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson capitalizes on students’ familiarity with social networking in order to explore character development and to experiment with writing style. As they are reading Jane Austen’s Emma or another novel of manners, students take on the persona of one of the characters. Imitating Jane Austen’s style, they create a profile and compose tweets and blog... 1260 Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson engages students through their participation in online literature circles as they read young adult novels. A suggested list of novels is supplied.... |